To be clear: There are not three scandals plaguing the Obama White House. By embracing the leaked talking points, Obama's opponents may have taken Benghazi off the table completely.
In continuing to address "Hurricane Scandy," Stewart had to admit that Republicans has something with the IRS and Benghazi dust-ups. He even proposed teaming up with Fox News! But you know who still doesn't get to take a GOP victory lap? Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney.
The Iraq War did not go as planned — not for Iraq, not for the United States, and not for the careers of the people who told us it'd be such a great idea to go. Let's catch up with the folks who brought us there a decade ago today.
The World According to Dick Cheney, a documentary about America's most powerful and polarizing vice president ever, debuts Friday on Showtime. The subject saw it weeks ago — and is none too happy with the product.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
When former vice president Dick Cheney made the TV rounds yesterday, in anticipation of the State of the Union, to criticize President Obama's foreign policy strategy, you could guess how Jon Stewart felt.
In an interview with CBS, Cheney said that the drone program is the only portion of Obama's foreign policy that he agrees with — indeed, that he thinks it's a "good policy."
Dick Cheney picked the wrong day to criticize Barack Obama for not paying close enough attention to presidential daily briefings.
Michael R. Bloomberg on immigration reform and the economy, Dexter Filkins on the troubled Afghanistan, Charles Lane on the financial health of senior citizens, Margaret Carlson on Paul Ryan, and George Monbiot on biofuels and the African famine.
In a USA Today/Gallup poll out today Paul Ryan is considered by 42 percent of Americans only a "fair" or "poor" choice for Mitt Romney's vice president— a higher number than that of registered voters who put Dick Cheney and Sarah Palin in the same categories upon learning of their selection.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney has walked back—or let's just say "updated"—his comments that it was a mistake to select Sarah Palin as John McCain's running mate in 2008.
Dick Cheney said John McCain's choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate in the 2008 election was a mistake in an interview that aired on ABC; Mitt Romney danced around supporting an Israeli attack on Iran after one of his aides said he would be okay with it.
Mitt Romney's allies leaked the idea that former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was near the top on the candidate's list of potential running mates to The Drudge Report Thursday evening, making a lot of people laugh in the process.
Every big life decision Mary Cheney makes will always be news, because she's the openly gay daughter of not just any Republican, but former Vice President Dick Cheney.
If Republicans get to talk about President Obama's ties to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Roland Martin said on CNN Thursday, then Democrats get to talk about how Mitt Romney's Mormon church used to be racist, so there. Could there be a perfectly calibrated rulebook regulating the precise tit-for-tat between presidential campaigns? The Atlantic Wire has tried to create one.
Dick Cheney is in an intensive care unit, recovering from the heart transplant procedure he underwent today.
The cause of gay marriage in Maryland has brought together two unlikely allies: former Vice President Dick Cheney and Michael K. Williams, who played Omar Little on The Wire.
Dick Cheney did not look well at a recent party, James Franco could be appearing as Hugh Hefner in the Linda Lovelace movie, and Bruce Springsteen might be shopping at J. Crew.
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is making the talk show rounds this week to promote the realease of her new memoir, No Higher Honor.
Highlights from The Atlantic's Washington Ideas Forum
Killing of al-Awlaki contradicts Obama's campaign trail rhetoric, critics say
Plus: Michael Moore wants his book removed from Georgia bookstores
He cites special training to keep his tear ducts sealed
Dick Cheney was rooting for her to challenge Obama a little over a day ago
The former Veep suggests the time may be ripe for a Clinton primary challenge
The former vice president prefers Hillary Clinton to Obama
She doesn't have a thick skin--or the right resume
But he does think later generations will judge
Also in books: the search for "the next Harry Potter"
Plus: The BBC delivers a very specific child-safety bulletin
Former vice president's memoir alleges she misled Bush
Also, he fears being tried for war crimes, says the aide
Colin Powell and George Will highlight the former vice president's alleged failures
Their catfight reminds voters of President Bush
New book reveals how Bush leaned on him for decision to bomb Saddam Hussein
Even if they're not true, observes cartoonist Steve Benson.
Conservatives argue the raid validates the Bush era anti-terror policies
Latest in a string of political productions from the cable network
Liz and Dick strive for a legacy
The ex-VP strafes the president's response to Flight 254
After his latest attack, exasperated pundits say Cheney's vendettas have gone 'primitive,' 'selfish,' and 'pathological'
Cheney's critique of Obama's Afghan policy may be self-defeating
Conservatives join Dick Cheney in blasting Obama's politics but applauding his policies on the Afghan war
The former VP's daughter happily takes a polarizing role
Conservative boosters can't be serious. ...right?
The former vice-president plans to slam Bush in his memoir, and pundits are oddly eager.
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