We’re All Cheneyites Now - Zev Chafets

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/08/28/dick-cheney-defends-his-legacy-in-new-book-in-my-time.html

But he’s still fighting the good fight—taking shots in the book at members of the national-security team who didn’t share his Manichaean view. George Tenet let the president down by bailing under fire, in Cheney’s telling; Condi Rice was wobbly on Iraq and suspect in her dealings with North Korea (Rice can return fire this fall, when her own book comes out). He’s rough on Colin Powell: “It was as though he thought the proper way to express his views was by criticizing administration policy to people outside the government.

So Barack Obama continued a policy set for him in Afghanistan and Guantanamo. That hardly equates him with a man whose blunders and incompetence set the stage for the Tea Party and caused a generation to wholly reject the 1990-2006 model of the Republican party. This man personally, literally his motions and ideas, gave rise to the Tea Party and all that came with it. How he constantly returns from the dead to croak about this or that and is roundly cheered is beyond me.

For whatever reason he is the GOP Luca Brasi, but the truth is that the people rejected him and blamed him for his failures. His popularity is a perfect example of the absurdity of the modern GOP: I hate your ideas, but because you drive liberals nuts, you are great and should have your ideas implemented.