As we suspected …
By Dave
September 16th, 2008 | Leave a comment
Reporter Barton Gellman reports in his book, The Cheney Vice Presidency, that Vice President Dick Cheney declined an invitation from the president to lead the federal response in the disaster in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
The Washington Post, accused of milking its publicity, has been releasing excerpts. Intrepid LA Times writers snagged some embargoed copy, to wit:
Anyone who had face time with Bush said he was smarter than the public believed, and meaner. He spared Cheney the thunderbolts — Rove got the worst of them, when Bush was in a mood to yell — but now and then aides saw the president give Cheney the back of his hand.
“Will you at least go do a fact-finding trip for us?” Bush asked.
“That’ll probably be the extent of it, Mr. President, unless you order otherwise,” Cheney replied. He was the Cheshire Cat inverted, only the smile dissolving, the rest of him still in the chair.
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