Captain Ed says "Analysts and Democrats waited only moments after the conviction of Scooter Libby before tying the case around the neck of Vice President Dick Cheney," but then cites an NYT article that quotes Scott Reed, a Republican strategist, and Kenneth L. Adelman, a former Reagan administration official, doing just that! Perhaps that's why Ed rightly concludes that Cheney and his office "will have to answer a lot of questions over the next few weeks..." and that "The Libby conviction will present a major distraction for at least a while, and the Republicans will have to answer for it in the next election. That's not a demand by me, but just a cold, hard, political reality."