US Vice President Dick Cheney (L) with adviser I. Lewis "Scooter" …
(AFP/Getty Images/File) - US Vice President Dick Cheney (L) with adviser I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby (R) moments before President George W. Bush made a statement at the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, in 2005. With daggers drawn for a weakened White House, congressional Democrats return from a short recess this week plotting to further undermine Bush's waning political sway.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Brendan Smialowski)