Posted May 11, 2009 @ 10:30 PM
... For the final act of his too-long public career, Cheney seems to have decided to become an Old Faithful of self-serving nonsense. His latest in a series of eruptions came Sunday on "Face the Nation," when he continued to press his revisionist case for torture - and, for good measure, counseled his beloved Republican Party to marginalize itself even further from public opinion and common sense ...
Other high-ranking officials from the previous administration, including George W. Bush himself, have had the manners and good sense to follow long-established custom and refrain from attacking the new president and his policies. Cheney, however, is not only accusing President Obama of knowingly putting American lives at risk - an outrageous charge - but also diving headlong into partisan politics ...
Let's see: Given a choice between a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and secretary of state who has given to his nation a lifetime of exemplary public service or an entertainer who brags about how much money he makes from bombast and bluster, Cheney would go with the gasbag. This is advice that's supposed to help the Republican Party? ...
http://www.pjstar.com/opinions/x2068280669/Robinson-Cheney-is-still-unconvincing-unapologetic-and-unbelievable