Cheney and Rumsfeld are refugees from the Nixon administration if that helps give you an idea of the sort of riff-raff that's come into power.

Cheney was out at T. Boone Picken's (oil billionare) hunting lodge this summer before he shot his lawyer. My companys account rep. was turned away at the gates by secret service. That tells you all you need to know about who's got their peckers in his back pocket.