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From: LindyBill11/23/2005 2:54:58 PM
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News of Cheney's Political Death Greatly Exaggerated
RCP Blog
By Tom Bevan

It's interesting how the D.C. parlor game works. Two weeks ago Tom DeFrank wrote a column in The NY Daily News under the headline "Dubya-Cheney Ties Frayed By Scandal" wherein DeFrank quoted an unnamed White House source saying "there has been some distance for some time" between Cheney and President Bush. The column set off a spasm of hyperventilation inside the beltway - led by the excitable, Cheney-obsessed Chris Matthews - asserting various reasons for the Vice-President's demise and writing his political obituary.

Since then, Cheney has come out swinging against charges the administration manipulated pre-war intelligence, first on November 16 and again on November 21. Yesterday Michael A. Fletcher and Jim VandeHei reported White House aides view Cheney as a "major asset in the war debate." Though fallout from the Libby indictment has saddled Cheney with low approval numbers, the Daily Telegraph carrries another sign that contrary to the description provided by Tom DeFrank's anonymous source, Cheney's stature within the administration remains undiminished:

Juleanna Glover Weiss, an influential Republican lobbyist and a former senior Cheney aide, said: "I have a lot of friends in the White House and no one has hinted at or winked at the idea that the vice-president has been reduced in power or status."

I guess this means we're back to the pre-Tom DeFrank-Hardball hysteria status quo. Until we get a juicy quote from another unnamed source to start the process all over again, that is.
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