Cheney joins Osama bin Laden ... irrelevant to President Bush ...

Vice President Dick Cheney slips out back door ...

While my brother, Richard from Connecticut, begins to look at "conservative" Democrats, which he calls Blue Dog Democrats (where did that moniker come from anyway?), I'm still busy watching the fallout from last Tuesday's debacle at the polls.

A sign of the next two years was made clear by a quote from President Bush while Cheney and two Democrats (Representatives Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer) were in the Oval Office this past week -- after the election, "All three of us recognize the importance of working together to get things done!"

Three? Well, I guess Mr. Cheney is going to have to line up behind Mr. bin Laden, Mr. Rumsfeld and others whom the President has regarded as "irrelevant" before and after Tuesday's result were known. With Rummy, Mr. Bush couldn't even remember having said that he (Rummy) was safe through the end of his term.

I expect Mr. Cheney to do a lot of hunting in the weeks and months ahead before he resigns to make room for whomever Bush decides is best for his Republican Party and the nation.