Duuuuh! [news]

I'm not very politically savvy, but this was clear even to me early on in Dubya's first term:

"What didn't he touch? It's almost like there was almost nothing too trivial for the vice president to handle," said New York University professor Paul Light, an expert in the bureaucracy of the executive branch.

"The details suggest Cheney was almost a deputy president with a shadow operation. He had his own source of advice. He had his own source of access. He was making his own decisions," Light said.

[Read the full story here] • [via Huffingtonpost.com]

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