What Cheney did was to feed and nourish the Bush prejudices, and to move ruthlessly and energetically to occupy the policymaking ground left vacant by the President’s indolence and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice’s lack of political clout.
切尼的所作所为培养和助长了布什的偏见，毫不留情地竭力抢占了因总统的懒惰和国家安全顾问康多莉扎·赖斯政治影响力的缺失留下的决策真空。