[1Old Pro]

Bush and Cheney will be vindicated. Here’s how, Obama will do nothing and the Middle East will explode, gasoline will be $20 a gallon and people in the Northeast will not be able to heat their homes.

Then, people will wake up to the fact that oil runs the world and America does not have an energy policy, in fact we are outlawing coal, preventing much offshore drilling, failing to open ANWR, no Keystone pipeline, no new refineries, limited fracking, etc.

[nathanbedford]

I once watched a news clip in which Karl Rove stated emphatically that the biggest mistake of the Bush administration was to fail to fight back against the meme, "Bush lied, people died." He said he took the matter to Bush and Bush instructed him not to mount a defense. Say what you will about Karl Rove, he has certain skills as a mechanic and he can read polls.

This passivity was chronic in the Bush administration and we see it post administration in Bush's failure to defend his own record. He presents himself to the world as a noble posture in which he is above politics who as an ex-president stands aside to give the new president a chance.

Bush forgets that he solicited the money, the votes, the prayers, the shoe leather, and the hopes of millions and millions of Americans for a set of principles which he promised he would champion. When Bush failed to fight his own corner the let the side down. He gave us a Democratic Congress and the most radical and dangerous president in American history.

If all things you prophesy in the first paragraph of your reply come true, and they might well come true, blame will not be assessed against the active in favor of the passive. Especially is that true if the passive are Republicans or conservatives and the active are the Democrat darlings of the media.

Dick Cheney, thank God, has not been afflicted with George Bush's distorted and, may I say, selfish brand of modesty.