A little Holiday cheer from Maureen Dowd to BushCo. She appeared on Hardball with Andrea Mitchell, and had some choice words for Cheney and the administration.

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Dowd: Cheney has a dark, loony paranoid vision. Bush wanted to be Reagan II, but Cheney and Rummy are like Nixon II.

Dowd: This whole attitude that warrants are so 20th century. I mean you've got to go by the law. You just have to-- first Cheney and Bush shredded the Atlantic alliance, then they shredded the Geneva convention, and now they are shredding the bill of rights. You just can't do that.