Cheney Emerges to Energize the Right

By Kenneth T. Walsh
Tue Apr 17, 10:52 PM ET

As the key parties jockey for position over the supplemental funding bill for Iraq, Vice President Cheney is back in the public eye, with guns blazing at White House critics.

In his latest broadside, Cheney said congressional Democrats were irresponsible for using a war spending bill to impose a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. Cheney also predicted in a CBS interview that the Democrats would eventually back down and send
President Bush a funding bill without the timetable.