Dick Cheney's liberalism

Johnathan Chait does what some would call "research" (got that, media?) and examines the claim that John Kerry voted to raise taxes 98 times.

One of the tricks of the methodology is that it not only counts even tiny or undeniably beneficent tax hikes, it counts any vote that could conceivably lead to higher taxes. That includes the procedural votes — cloture votes, motions to proceed and other arcane hurdles — often required to pass a single tax hike. Kerry's support for Bill Clinton's 1993 tax hike alone accounted for 16 of the 98 votes. Another 43 were merely Kerry approving a broad goal to reduce the deficit to a given level. Three more of Kerry's votes came from his opposition to imposing a requirement that tax hikes receive a three-fifths supermajority.

He then taking the claim at face value, he applies Republican methodology to Dick Cheney's record:

Meanwhile, Dick Cheney as a member of Congress from Wyoming voted to raise taxes 144 times. If 98 tax-hike votes make Kerry a far-out liberal, than Cheney would have to be placed somewhere in the ideological vicinity of Che Guevara.

Dick Cheney. He makes John Kerry look conservative on taxes.