WASHINGTON - Outgoing-VP Dick Cheney sounds off about this year's political figures in an interview today.
Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) Cheney said the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee doesn't have the lock on the party's presidential nomination in four years. "She'll have to go out and earn it just as anybody else would have to."
VP-elect Joe Biden (D-DE) Cheney said he doesn't think Biden will be as influential in the Obama administration as Cheney was in the Bush administration. And -- big surprise -- he doesn't agree with Biden's description of Cheney as "the most dangerous vice president we've had probably in American history."
110th U.S. Congress (D-Majority) Lawmakers, Cheney said, "failed" to address the economic threat facing the U.S. auto industry, forcing the White House to come through with $17.4 billion in emergency loans.
Him & Outgoing Pres-George W. Bush (R) On the use of executive power: Cheney offered no apologies for the Bush administration's broad -- and controversial -- use of such powers, saying the move was necessary in the fight against terrorism. "If you think about what Abraham Lincoln did during the Civil War, what FDR did during World War II. They went far beyond anything we've done in a global war on terror," he said.
On Osama bin Laden: Cheney said he thinks bin Laden is still alive, but has doubts about whether he's still in charge of al-Qaida. "He's been holed up in a way where he's not even been communicating and there are questions about whether or not he's even running the operation," he said.
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT): Cheney said he doesn't regret cursing at Leahy on the Senate floor in June 2004. "I thought he merited it at the time," Cheney said, laughing at the memory.
Fmr. Secy of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (R): Cheney said he didn't agree with President George W. Bush's decision to fire Rumsfeld as defense secretary in his second term. "It wasn't my decision to make," Cheney said. "The president doesn't always take my advice.
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