Former Vice President Dick Cheney spent the vast majority of the presidency of George W. Bush in an undisclosed location, operating much like the Man Behind the Curtain in "The Wizard of Oz."
In one of those rare occasions where Cheney emerged from his secret lair, he distinguished himself by asking a sitting U.S. senator to perform an anatomically impossible sex act.
Cheney and his daughter, Liz, have been staples on Sunday morning talk shows and cable news the past month.
Ostensibly the reason for breaking his self-imposed silence was to re-litigate the past eight years of the Bush Administration.
Yet that flimsy rationale is undermined by news that the multi-millionaire is actively shopping his memoirs.
By speaking out, the former vice president is breaking a long-standing tradition that members of the past administration refrain from criticizing the present administration. I should note that President Bush has honored this tradition since leaving office in January.
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