The hatred the left has had for VP Dick Cheney has provided us on the right many, many hours of comic relief. But today’s interview with Fox New’s Chris Wallace provided a lock step answer for their vitriol.

He tells it like it is.

It’s interesting that the left has far more colorful characters than Cheney, such as the about to be thrown from the bus Raum Emanuel, who likes to send dead fish in the mail. Yet it’s Cheney’s honesty and upright character they hate the most. Take for instance:

WALLACE: Transition officials say that Biden plans to shrink his office, that he is not going to meet with Senate Democrats the way you did every week with Senate Republicans, that he is not going to have his own, quote, “shadow government” in the White House.

Biden has said that he believes you have dangerously expansive views of executive power.

CHENEY: Well, I just fundamentally disagree with him. He also said that the — all the powers and responsibilities of the executive branch are laid out in Article 1 of the Constitution. Well, they’re not. Article 1 of the Constitution is the one on the legislative branch.

Joe’s been chairman of the Judiciary Committee, a member of the Judiciary Committee in the Senate, for 36 years, teaches constitutional law back in Delaware, and can’t keep straight which article of the Constitution provides for the legislature and which provides for the executive.

So I think — I write that off as campaign rhetoric. I don’t take it seriously. And if he wants to diminish the office of vice president, that’s obviously his call.

I think that President-elect Obama will decide what he wants in a vice president. And apparently, from the way they’re talking about it, he does not expect him to have as consequential a role as I’ve had during my time.

The left is jumping all over this, but it’s not mean, it’s simply the truth. Joe Biden is an uninformed ignoramus and big mouth and the only one in Washington that has the guts to call him on his BS, or on Leahy’s pompousness is Cheney. Jules Crittenden is going to miss him, so will we all.

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