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...minute mark, Cheney finally bared a tooth or two, icily drum-beating "eight years of talk and no action," and Lieberman actually started to get miffed. But the brief flare-up immediately preceded the evening's pinch of genuinely funny salt. Grabbing hold of Reagan, Lieberman declared Americans better off than they were pre-Clinton and tapped Cheney's oilman stint. "I know, Dick, that you're better off than you were 8 years ago too." Replied Cheney, "And I can tell you, Joe, that the government had absolutely nothing to do with it." Lieberman: "I can tell my wife...
...time for Social Security, or try to reform it. Increase the government's role in health care, or decrease it. Get the federal government on the education problem, or get the states to handle it. Spend more, or spend less. Stay out of Alaska, or drill it cautiously. Cheney may have encapsulated the evening's major tone shift with one comment on fixing public schools: "We think we know how to do that." Hey - we're both trying to help, and each of us thinks we know how to do it best. So just pick where you want those trillions...
...Gore doesn't need backing up on foreign policy; George W. Bush does. And Cheney was there for him. He backed him up convincingly on the Russians and Milosevic. And he put the best face possible on Bush's lack of head-of-state seasoning: the governor has "a track record of dealing straight with people and keeping his word," so allies and enemies alike can respect the U.S. From Cheney it made sense. The two had a nice little squabble about whose fault Saddam was, which is where Lieberman got his subtlest dig in with a story about...
...Cheney did more yeoman's work on Shaw's true softball, the "how would you change the tone in Washington" question. After acknowledging there is a better way to conduct government, Cheney said, "I've seen it done differently." Back in the old days of Bush the elder? No. "I've seen it done differently in Texas." The media book on Richard "the dud" Cheney is about to take a U-turn...
...Maybe it was the format - certainly Cheney seems happier around a table than behind a podium. It could have been the opening pledge, Lieberman's let's-be-nice-tonight version of the Al Gore and Jack Kemp football-for-chlorofluorocarbons gambit, but if it was it a gambit, it paid off for everybody involved. Yes, Cheney's performance was a bit of a revelation, mostly because it really didn't look like a performance (Lieberman, fonder of the Gore catch phrases but so much gentler than Gore when he spits them out, was merely as affable as expected...