Eleanor Clift: A longtime confidant of the Bush and Cheney families describes the dangerous influence of the vice president.
Vic Gold’-s book: Invasion of the Party Snatchers: How the Holy-Rollers and the Neo-Cons Destroyed the GOP
Washington Post’-s dossier on VP Dick Cheney
Part 1: Working in the Background
A master of bureaucracy and detail, Cheney exerts most of his influence out of public view.
Part 2: Wars and Interrogations
Convinced that the “-war on terror”- required “-robust interrogations”- of captured suspects, Dick Cheney pressed the Bush administration to carve out exceptions to the Geneva Conventions.
Sidebar: Cheney on Presidential Power
Part 3: Dominating Budget Decisions
Working behind the scenes, Dick Cheney has made himself the dominant voice on tax and spending policy, outmaneuvering rivals for the president’-s ear.
Sidebar: Expanding Authority for No. 2 Spot
Sidebar: Taking on the Supreme Court Case
Part 4: Environmental Policy
Dick Cheney steered some of the Bush administration’-s most important environmental decisions —- easing air pollution controls, opening public parks to snowmobiles and diverting river water from threatened salmon.
Sidebar: Maintaining Connections
Vice President Cheney, standing behind the president’-s desk during a July 2003 meeting, circumvented Secretary of State Colin L. Powell in 2001 on the military commissions order:
Credit: Washington Post
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JFK got killed, but Dick Cheney gets to live.
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Dick Cheney Resignation
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Dick Cheney will resign as VP before his 2nd term is up.
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Dick Cheney Resignation
Dick Cheney will resign as VP before his 2nd term is up.
Previous blog posts by Chris F. Masse:
- IIF’s SIG on Prediction Markets
- Science
- Why did prediction markets do well in the pre-polling era, professor Strumpf?
- Mozilla FireFox users, do you have trouble downloading academic papers (as PDF files) from SSRN?
- “Impact Matrix. Used to collect and gauge the likelihood and business impact of various events in the very long term.”
- Ends and Means of Prediction Markets — Tom W. Bell Edition
- How to run enterprise prediction markets… legally