Is that an attempt to defend Cheney's inaction on this issue? My point is that Cheney never even made fighting TARP a priority. Instead, he thought that defending Scooter was more important than even trying to speak out against the greatest leap to socialism in decades.
Precisely what do you know of private discussions between the President and VP of the US? If you are implying the Cheney should have publicly opposed the administration in the middle of what some thought was an existential crisis you know nothing about how our constitutional government is supposed to function.