Questioned about Iraq during an interview on Fox News, Dick Cheney said: "We didn’t get elected to be popular." He added, in regard to growing panic among GOP circles that his obsession with Iraq would destroy the party in next year's elections, "We didn’t get elected to worry just about the fate of the Republican Party."

True, that. They're not popular. And they're driving the GOP over a cliff.

Meanwhile, the Post reports that Karl Rove and the White House crew are livid that moderate Republicans are leaking their discontent over Bush's Iraq policy:

White House political adviser Karl Rove, furious that Republican moderates had divulged a confrontational meeting they had on Tuesday with Bush on the war, started yesterday with an angry conversation with the meeting's organizer, Rep. Mark Steven Kirk (R-Ill.), according to several GOP lawmakers. Dan Meyer, the White House's chief lobbyist, called the other participants to express the administration's unhappiness.