VP Buoyed by Chants of 'Four More Sneers'

Vice-President Dick Cheney admitted to feeling "inspired" by the chants of 'Four More Sneers! Four More Sneers!' that greeted him as he stepped off of Air Force Two in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, after it had become all-but-certain that he and President George Bush would return for a second term at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

"I've snickered, and I've chortled, and I've sneered derisively all across this great country, and now to see that it's finally paying off--well, it makes me want to grimace contemptuously for a while," said Cheney, who was visibly moved by the crowd's gesture. In a cell-phone call lasting some forty-five minutes, Cheney and Bush, respectively, huffed and guffawed in an apparently-private language shared only by the two men themselves.