Posted by
Always To The Right on Tuesday, March 24, 2009 2:18:47 PM
It’s hard to blame either side. Dick Cheney mostly kept his own
counsel while serving as George Bush’s VP, but now he’s free to talk —
and to make sure that history gets his role correct. Part of that will
be pushing back against Obama and his assignment of blame onto the Bush
administration for the various ills he faces now as an executive as a
means to redirect criticism.
George Bush said that he owed Obama his “silence”, in the tradition of
American presidents with their successors. Perhaps he also shrewdly
considered the benefits of silence to his own party as well. However,
if the GOP wants to take the lead on substantive criticisms of the
Obama administration, then they’re going to have to do better than
buying into Bonus Outrage and Obama’s budget-busting plans for federal
expansion. Until Republicans start speaking loudly and rationally,
they’re leaving a vacuum for Cheney and others to fill - and that’s not
Cheney’s fault, or the media.