CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- Vice President Dick Cheney says he and his wife, Lynne, plan to equally divide their time between their homes in Jackson and northern Virginia after Cheney leaves office next month.
Cheney told the Casper Star-Tribune in an interview that they've always considered Wyoming home.
Cheney also says he has no desire whatsoever to return to elected office. He says he's loved his career in politics and government, but there comes a time to step aside and he's reached that point in his career.
Cheney spoke from his home in Jackson, where he's been spending time with family.
Neither the conservative Republicans (that's a joke) and certainly not the liberal Democrats (that's not a joke), have done much to curtail government abuse regarding give away programs, financial spending or less government.
Here are some thoughts on true and real change for America. Please follow my thinking:
1. Limit Congress from serving more than two terms.
2. Stop Congress from voting for their own raises.
3. Stop paying for lawmakers' high-priced insurance premiums.
4. Make Congress pay into the Social Security system.
5. Stop handing out aid to illegal aliens.
6. Secure the darn borders.
7. Stop legitimizing illegal aliens' children born in America.
8. Stop abuse of the welfare system.
9. Engage a computer system to cross check Social Security IDs.
10. Stop paying executives of companies large salaries and outrageous bonuses, and let's not forget the unions.
11. Stop unnecessary spending at federal and state levels.
12. Stop people from having their face covered on drivers licenses.
Last but not least no bailouts - not for banks, not for the car companies, not for anyone.
Alas, in closing: Bailout for the car companies, banks and anyone else that makes a case is a reality and one that our children and grandchildren will shoulder for decades - and that, unfortunately, is the truth of the matter. Government will be father, mother and overseer of everything we do as Americans for now and in the future - isn't that just a wonderful legacy to our grandchildren.
60 Minutes and correspondent Steve Kroft began chronicling President-elect Barack Obama's road to the White House nearly two years ago, as the candidate declared his candidacy.
Over the course of the campaign, Kroft interviewed the long-shot candidate, his family and his closest advisors, for what turn out to be perhaps the biggest story in American political history.
See the candidate making sandwiches for his young daughters, the rising political superstar on the campaign trail, the confident candidate poised for victory, and the president-elect with his future first lady reflecting publicly for the first time on the fact that they will be the first African-American couple to occupy the White House.
When 60 Minutes went to Illinois in February 2007 to do a story on the young, charismatic senator, it wasn't because we thought he was going to be elected the 44th President of the United States.
Nobody thought that, but he was becoming a political phenomenon and there had never been a presidential candidate quite like him - his last name rhymed with Osama, his middle name was Hussein; racially he was half white and half black, and politically he was green.
It would have been easy to dismiss him if it were not for the fact that he was running second in the polls behind Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination. Watch/Read
After an enthusiastic beginning, the Obama campaign seemed to hit a wall. Eight months after he announced his candidacy in Springfield and on the eve of the primaries, Obama still trailed Hillary Clinton by nearly 20 points in the national polls, and people were still predicting that she could wrap up the nomination by the middle of February.
Obama's performance in the early Democratic debates, in the fall of 2007, lacked inspiration. He seemed flat, professorial, and wonkish. Watch/Read
