Posted by
Bill Crawford on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 9:49:30 PM
So Richard Cheney decided to have another go at the stupid, stupid paths this Administration has chosen to fight the war on- er, sorry- the overseas contingency operation (or whatever it's called now).
The gruff gus of an ex-VP surely has a bug up some buttinskies on Pennsylvania Avenue, because they frantically scheduled sanguine Joe to go on TWO weekend talkies. One before Cheney, one immediately afterward.
Here's where I have my first problem: Joe tells me that Cheney doesn't have the "right" to "write his own history". My problem is that I was conscious and listening when Biden got on TV two weeks ago and touted the ongoing stability in Iraq as "one of the Obama administration's greatest accomplishments". You got that right- after the Senators from Delaware and Illinois both voted against the 2006 surge, both pronounced the plan a failure in advance, and THEN Joe came out with his brilliant plan to carve Iraq into three tribal zones. I'm assuming that Halliburton was going to provide the tour buses to make that happen.
Obama has an advantage in Washington. He is new enough where some people still question whether he is as full of crap as he sounds. The beltway people gave up on that question for Biden when he crashed and burned running for President in '88.
So I ask again, Obama. Is the plan with Joe to just let him keep talking, and nobody has a sock ready? That's the plan?
Editor's note: I was left to referring to Cheney as "Richard" because the moronic catch-all editor software that buttresses this site yanks you if you use the word "D**K. I know at DailyKos they are free to refer to the lower end of his alimentary canal at will, so I may be filing a protest here.