I read an interesting article several months ago in which Cheney describes what happened during the second term. He stated that Bush began ignoring his advice and began drifting further and further left. Cheney offered several examples, but I can’t recall them now.
At anyrate, the drift paralled the decline of Bush’s popularity.
I haven’t read the article you suggest, but I seriously doubt President Bush ever ignored Cheney, he may not have made decisions that Cheney advocated at times. I missed President Bush moving left, when did that happen...or rather, what occurred that made you or others think he turned left? To save time...the bailout was not a left right thing, it was a reasonable (and correct) economic strategy. What Obama and the left did with it after the election was not Bush, it was Obama and the democrats.
I hate to do this, but I have to leave...going deer hunting this morning. I will be back later today. Cheerio and all that... :)
Cheney was a great man. He would have made a great President.