Eugene Robinson at the WAPO makes some interesting parallels to Tony Soprano’s gang and Dick Cheney’s gang. Amazing, can you imagine anyone in the mainstream media a year ago comparing the inter-workings of the White House to a mob crime family? If things and testimony gets any uglier for Cheney, we can expect rumblings of impeachment or sudden health concerns.

If you’ve been following the Lewis “Scooter” Libby perjury trial, I can understand how you might confuse Dick Cheney with Tony Soprano. Cheney’s office is beginning to sound a lot like the Bada Bing, minus the dancers.

…For another, this kind of all-in-the-family mess would send Tony moping to his long-suffering shrink, whereas Cheney shows no inclination to deal with uncomfortable issues or face harsh realities.

…You get the sense of Cheney and his crew as a semi-independent power center, a family within the larger family. You see them hunkered down in their office suite, much like Tony and crew in the back room of the Bada Bing, plotting ways to cover their behinds and do in their rivals — whether those rivals are found in Baghdad, Tehran or the West Wing.