Crying “wolf”: That dog won't hunt no more.

Tim Russert on Meet the Press confronted Dick Cheney with his lies. No link between Iraq and 9/11, no WMD, etc. The Democrats could learn focus and plain speaking from Russert. (If only Lieberman had been one-tenth as assertive in the 2000 VP “debate”...) Cheney's body language was telling – head dropping, hands waving, and even sputtering – he knew it was bad. He recovered his paternalistic attitude later in the show. You've got to credit Cheney for having the courage to appear. It is evidence of the panic this administration feels about an election that might produce a Democratic House that takes its oversight responsibilities seriously.

Cheney crowed about there being no terrorist attacks on US soil in the 5 years since 9/11. He claimed this as evidence of their successful management of the war on terror. Remember, there were no foreign terror attacks for 8 years before 9/11 - ZERO. Would this administration credit Clinton with this success? Not likely. Moreover, the perpetrators of the 1993 attack were successfully prosecuted and convicted within a few years using legal investigation and interrogation methods. They are in prison while Osama is free and producing videos – and probably worse.