Cheney Heads to Hill to Quell Republicans

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From FoxNews.com:

The White House dispatched Vice President Dick Cheney to Capitol Hill Tuesday morning to help shore up support for the financial bailout of Wall Street.

. . . House conservatives are seething about the “big government” approach that they say President Bush is taking in the financial crisis. They don’t like how much power it cedes to the Treasury or the price tag.

“[Cheney] is going to walk into a firing squad. I hope he brought his hunting rifle,” an aide to one House conservative told FOX News.

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