What really surprises me is the degree to which Cheney seems to be out of step with the rest of the administration. He's parroting six-month-old talking points, and has been for at least that long. He's repeating things that Bush contradicted earlier that week, and this isn't the first instance of that by a long shot.
It's odd because if Cheney really has been that distanced from the heart of the administration--enough so that he's operating in a talking-point vacuum--then why doesn't the administration bring him to heel and stop him going on talk shows blabbing nonsense?
Unless it's really true that the administration is finally collapsing in on itself. Could they just have given up the PR game? This administration?
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