Chaney is doing exactly what he set out to do when he appointed himself VP prior to the 2000 campaign/elections. He has no allegiance to anyone other than himself, his neocon co-conspirtators, and corporate sponsors. He is able to behave as he does because he has no oversight and will continue to do what he is doing because he will have no oversight. The congress has displayed no real willingness to live up to their responsibility as a check on the executive; the supreme court is stacked; the federal bureaucracy is full of cronies and ideologs; the media has little credibility; the religious community has no moral strength; and the American people are more concerned about the next American idol than the future of their country to care.