The Autumn of the Patriarchy by Maureen Dowd

November 30, 2005
Op-Ed Columnist

The Autumn of the Patriarchy
By MAUREEN DOWD

In the vice president's new, more fortified bunker, inside his old undisclosed secure location within the larger bunker that used to be called the West Wing of the White House, Dick Cheney was muttering and sputtering.

He wasn't talking to the pictures on the wall, as Nixon did when he finally cracked. Vice doesn't trust those portraits anyway. The walls have ears. He was talking to the only reliable man in a city of dimwits, cowards, traitors and fools: himself.

He hurled a sheaf of news reports with such force it knocked over the picture of Ahmad Chalabi that he keeps next to the picture of Churchill. Winston Chalabi, he likes to call him.

Vice is fed up with all the whining and carping - and that's just inside the White House. The only negativity in Washington is supposed to be his own. He's the only one allowed to scowl and grumble and conspire.

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off the bush.

I kinda wish I could applaud Maureen Dowd, BUT considering what of her pieces got published in the fall of 2000, I believe Maureen Dowd to be the woman most responsible, next to Karen Hughes, for getting George W. Bush far enough to get installed in the White House in January, 2001.

I wonder if she's pleased with how her little vendetta with former vice president Gore turned out. I'm sure not.

She surely understands the consequences of her actions, although she does come off as a case of arrested development in her personal TV appearances.

less than four months ago,no one would have dared to write a piece like this..I loathe Dr. Death..he is the epitome of evil and everything that has gone wrong with my country...I just cant figure out how anyone can look at him and not see it...much less follow his actions...despicable excuse for a human...