The man who never talked is now the man who won’t shut up. The man who wouldn’t list his office in the federal jobs directory, who had the vice president’s residence blocked on Google Earth, who went to the Supreme Court to keep from revealing which energy executives helped him write the nation’s energy policy, is now endlessly yelping about how President Obama is holding back documents that should be made public.

He has no coherent foreign policy viewpoint. He still doesn’t fathom that his brutish invasion of Iraq unbalanced that part of the world, empowered Iran and was a force multiplier for Muslims who hate America. He left our ports unsecured, our food supply unsafe, the Taliban rising and Osama on the loose. No matter if or when terrorists attack here — and they’re on their own timetable, not a partisan red/blue state timetable — Cheney will be deemed the primary one who made America more vulnerable.

When Cheney was in the first Bush administration, he was odd man out. Poppy, James Baker, Brent Scowcroft and Colin Powell corralled Cheney’s “Genghis Khan” side, as it was known, and his “rough streak.” Cheney didn’t care for Powell even then.

But with W., “Back Seat” — Cheney’s Secret Service name in the Ford administration — clambered up front. Then he totaled the car. And no amount of yapping on TV is going to change that when history is written. [ READ MORE ]

On Cheney’s Speech of Yesterday: False To FACT and REASON

When The BIG LIE Was Cooked!

National Security SHOWDOWN

References:

1. The Cheney-GATE TAPES: Cheney’s speech contained omissions, misstatements — WASHINGTON: Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s defense Thursday of the Bush administration’s policies for interrogating suspected terrorists contained omissions, exaggerations and misstatements. — [ READ MORE ] [ VIDEO 1 ] [ VIDEO 2 ]

2 In a column by David Brooks on the Obama-Cheney duel, Mr. Brooks argues, rightly, that the sharpest break in anti-terrorism policy occurred during the Bush presidency, not with the election of Obama, and that Dick Cheney was criticising his former “boss” as much as his successor. [ READ MORE ]

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