Rob Bluey seems to fault Vice President Cheney for not mentioning the Federal Marriage Amendment last night. But isn’t there an obvious reason for that? Recall what Cheney said in the 2004 VP debate:

People ought to be free to choose any arrangement they want. It’s really no one else’s business.

That’s a separate question from the issue of whether or not government should sanction or approve or give some sort of authorization, if you will, to these relationships.

Traditionally, that’s been an issue for the states. States have regulated marriage, if you will. That would be my preference.

In effect, what’s happened is that in recent months, especially in Massachusetts, but also in California, but in Massachusetts we had the Massachusetts Supreme Court direct the state of — the legislature of Massachusetts to modify their constitution to allow gay marriage.

And the fact is that the president felt that it was important to make it clear that that’s the wrong way to go, as far as he’s concerned.

Now, he sets the policy for this administration, and I support the president.

Of course Cheney would avoid mentioning the FMA: It’s pretty clear that he disagrees with the President about it.