The President Speaks At Long Last:

As always, he’ll stick with his guy... till he can’t any more. I don’t think out of any sense of what most people understand as loyalty to a friend or principle.

No, to bail early on Cheney would be tantamount to admitting he had made a mistake somewhere along the way, and his ego doesn’t have room to accommodate any such notion. When it happens, he’ll be dragged kicking and screaming. Probably literally.

Personally, I can’t wait for the post-administration tell-all tomes. I understand there is a lot of screaming, if not actual kicking, on POTUS’ part.