in space no one can hear you scream...

This explains a lot (well, not really):

"He became vice president well before George Bush picked him," Wilkerson said of Cheney. "And he began to manipulate things from that point on, knowing that he was going to be able to convince this guy to pick him, knowing that he was then going to be able to wade into the vacuums that existed around George Bush — personality vacuum, character vacuum, details vacuum, experience vacuum."

Woof! And the space between his ears? Is that a vacuum too or does the wind whistle thru?