Ex-Bush aide: No good trying to advise Cheney

Published: October 11, 2007, 6:45 am

by Andrew Malcolm We wrote earlier about the surprisingly blunt critiques of the Republican presidential field made by Dan Bartlett, who was President Bush's counselor until July. Well, the Washington Post's Al Kamen has published a little bit more of Bartlett's critique, which came in a September speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. These Bartlett remarks were about Vice President Dick Cheney and, frankly, how much trouble it is to work with the taciturn, determined Washington veteran. "Team player" is not the term that comes to mind. Indeed, Cheney was a wrestler (as, interestingly enough, was his longtime Washington buddy and colleague, Donald Rumsfeld). Bartlett, one of Bush's most-trusted loyalists from the early days of his Texas governorship, was for years in charge of political rapid response, which translates into damage control when something unexpected and usually bad happens. Bartlett, like most such professionals, is a believer in the really rapid response

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