TPM Reader BH chimes in on Dick …
There’s been a lot of talk lately about Dick Cheney’s refusal to go quietly into the night, but what I am finding most interesting is his complete emergence from the shadows. This is a guy who made an entire career as the ultimate evil puppet-master, always behind the scenes and always in control. What strikes me as so out of character is his apparent inability to keep his mouth shut when he no longer has his hands on the strings. While I despise him for what he did to our country’s image and his shredding of The Constitution, I have always had a begrudging respect for what I thought was his phenomenal discipline and long term ability to keep the goal (however evil) in front of his public ego. Now I am finding him to be an ever more paranoid, disturbed, and pathetic man and I am truly shocked that those on the inside let him run the show for so long. I would ask how we let this megalomaniac do so much damage, but he wasn’t actually a megalomaniac – that requires a delusion of power. We really did allow him to have this much power. Is there any wonder that this country has so many problems right now or that an entire political party is in disarray?
