A Quote from Dick Cheney That Says It All

—By Jonathan Stein

| Wed Feb. 4, 2009 1:38 PM PST

There's one quote from Dick Cheney's interview with Politico that says it all:

We did worry about [the economy], to some extent.

To some extent.

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