No Tricks Here: Dick Cheney Has Become Nixon 2.0

[OneGrassRoot]

There's something about former Vice President Dick Cheney that's been struggling to get out like a rare bald eagle chick ready to hatch. After listening to his remarks this weekend about Rush Limbaugh (loves him) and Colin Powell (doesn't), and his jut-jawed "I don't regret anything" moment on CBS, I know what it is:

Mr. Cheney is now replacing Richard Nixon in the national political and cultural consciousness as the Gorgeous George of our era, the guy whose very existence makes some people furious and who brings to the surface all those intense and complex emotions about power and the people who wield it. And, like Mr. Nixon, the former Bush Veep can't help himself and won't ever stop reopening the wounds....


From blog posted 5/11/09 by Phil Bronstein at HuffPo:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/phil-bronstein/no-tricks-here-dick-chene_b_201834.html

[bdamomma]

1. he needs to just go away.

criminal.

[Bobbie Jo]

2. "I am not a crook." nt

[Buck Laser]

3. I really think that's unfair to Nixon.

[nichomachus]

4. Nixon did do some good things

as much as I despised the guy. In terms of policy, he was slightly to the left of the current administration. He opened relations with China at a time when the Red Menace was the center of our consciousness. He started the EPA. Extended the Clean Air Act. He signed the first affirmative action bill.

Of course, he was a traitor, and that kind of takes the shine off of everything else.

Cheney is just a traitor -- without any of the good stuff.