This administration will go down in history books as the most corrupt, irresponsible and autocratic regime we have ever suffered under. I feel as though Cheney is the moving spirit within all the lying, stealing and cheating going on — but the rest of the crew are as bad, if not worse. [Bush] seems like a pretty sad excuse for a puppet, but that seems to be the case. The whole bunch are a liability to this nation and the world.
S. Riley
Bar Harbor, Maine

Dick Cheney is not a liability for the Bush Administration. For once, we have a Vice President who is not driven by desires for power and can therefore do what is in the best interest of the country.
Michael Weiler
Lawrenceville, Ga.

I am a registered Democrat, and when I see the sorry bunch of losers our party has running for the Presidency, the crest rider John Kerry included, George Bush could have Donald Duck as his running mate and still win the election. We need people like Sam Nunn and John Breaux in there, not a bunch of space cadets. Also the media has to get real and find how the average person feels, not with phony polls and opinions. We want truth, not how you feel when you can't even keep your own journalists clean (Glass, Blair, Bragg, etc.).
Harold Schnabel
Rumson, N.J.

It would be very convenient for Bush to claim Cheney as a liability, so as to relieve Bush of the responsibility of having made some bad decisions. But then he'd have to claim the rest of his inner circle as liabilities also, since they've also given him bad advice. When do we stop blaming Bush's advisers for his mistakes and realize that Bush himself is responsible for his own actions? If Bush is that naive about world affairs, then it was a "Supreme" mistake to give him the Presidency.
Dennis Kay
Warsaw, N.Y.

The Christian right, the neo-cons, the gun nuts and the oil industry all think that Cheney is the second coming, and if he were removed from the ticket, they would revolt. Far from being a liability, he generates a warm fuzzy feeling in the Republican base. The election will be decided on the race in just a few states. Cheney is irrelevant.
A. Bego
Stormville, N.Y.

Dick Cheney is no liability. His experience and years, while they may inspire fear in some, has helped to mold Bush into America's most internationally ambitious president since the Reagan/Thatcher era. This great team around "Dubya", headed up by the Vice President, is cleary a favorite to bash, but that's because they get the job done that they say they will get done, like it or not. Next thing you know TIME will be asking if Tony Blair is a liability to George W.!
Bruce Rodgers III
Milton Kings, United Kingdom

George W. Bush is merely a puppet of Cheney and the neocons, who's trotted out every once in awhile to mouth the same lame talking points. Problem is, he's getting worse at it all the time, as evidenced by his Meet The Press interview. Maybe Cheney ought to fire Bush. He's about as bland as they come, but at least we could hear a different voice and see a different face.
Tom Zind
Prairie Village, Kans.

Is Dick Cheney a liability for the Bush Administration... Dick Cheney is the the Bush Administration! The question should be whether cutting the taxes for the wealthiest of Americans, again and again, while running the federal defecit to new heights and rushing to war under false pretenses with no discernable post-combat planning is a liability for our country.
Shingi Chikasaki
Kaholi, Hawaii

Dick Cheney is not a liability for the Bush Administration. When you've got guys like Perle, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld and Rove hanging around, what's one more power-hungry greedhead going to do to improve or upset the mix? Cheney's just a tunnel-vision-afflicted jerk like the rest and Bush deserves him. It seems that a good chunk of Americans can't see through the B.S. these guys put out and they deserve Dick Cheney and all the rest of these jokers as well.
Jay Blackburn
Santa Rosa, Calif.

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