I asked a question, and Tony responded. When I posted the "thanks" message, it wasn't intended as a shot at Cheney. If the quote from ABC was intended as a shot, it was pretty lame. I suppose one could read contradition into it, but personally I didn't.

He didn't go, and he had reasons for not going. I'm prepared to leave it at that.

This place is getting too jumpy. If you're not foaming at the mouth, cheering on the bombers, the right calls you a traitor. If you're not writhing in convultions at the very prospect of violence, the left says you have no heart.

Someone like me, who's neither foaming nor writhing, gets slammed from both sides. Extremism is the order of the day.