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Another Retired Politician, Another Kiss 'n' Tell

 

This time, it's from Dick "Other Priorities" Cheney. He already has a deal with Simon and Schuster for a "memoir", due in 2011. Here, Mr. Cheney reams his former boss: George W. Bush. Like every other asshole politician, he blames others for failings that were strictly his own.

"In the second term, he felt Bush was moving away from him," Gellman quoted a participant in the recent gathering, describing Cheney's reply. "He said Bush was shackled by the public reaction and the criticism he took. Bush was more malleable to that. The implication was that Bush had gone soft on him, or rather Bush had hardened against Cheney's advice. He'd showed an independence that Cheney didn't see coming."

-- Cheney: Bush Quit Taking My Advice

"Bush was more malleable to that": was he really? 9-11, Jim Jeffords -- defected from the GOP, the Clinton surplus: gone, 9-11, the infamous "sixteen words" from the 2003 SOTUS, "Mission Accomplished" when it was anything but, Iraq: damn near lost, Osama Bin Laden: still at large, stock market: down, economy: down, unemployemnt: up, deficits: through the roof. Considering what a smashing "success" Mr. Bush's first term was, why would he ever question the brilliant advice from the MOSTEST INFLUENTIALEST VP IN ALLUV US HISTORY!!!!1111oneoneoneone™

"He'd showed an independence that Cheney didn't see coming."

A president who thinks for himself: can't have that. The great tragedy is that Mr. Bush waited until his second term before giving this thinking for himself stuff a go. He might've done better by the country, and by himself, had he realized Cheney was bullshitting him from the get-go.

I hope S & S lose their ass on this one.