Dick Cheney is no longer just waging “public combat against the ‘far left’ agenda” of President Obama, said Barton Gellman in The Washington Post. In his work-in-progress memoir, Cheney’s opening a “second front” against his erstwhile partner, former president George W. Bush, reportedly telling confidantes that Bush went soft in his second term. Cheney said the “statute of limitations has expired” on his secrets from those years, so look out.
Wait, George Bush was an “appeaser?” said Kevin Drum in Mother Jones. Now that we’re finding out what Cheney “really thinks about George Bush,” that’s the inescapable conclusion: he believes “Bush went soft on him.” He’s apparently airing this laundry because he’s “still obsessed with the idea of terrorists getting hold of a nuke”—I guess he’ll never understand that his hard-line policies made terrorist nukes more likely, not less.
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