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Thursday, May 21, 2009

Cheney Assessed

Josh Marshall:

This is an extremely gullible man who has just come off being the driving ideological force in an administration that most people can already see produced more fiascos and titanic, self-inflicted goofs than possibly any in our entire history. By any standard the guy is a monumental failure -- and not one whose mistakes stem in some Lyndon Johnson fashion from tragic overreach, but just a fool who damaged his country through his own gullibility, paranoia and bad judgment. Whatever else you can say about the Cheney story it ain't Shakespearean.

But what does it say about a political class that still affords him an ounce of credibility?

Thursday, May 21, 2009 at 06:54 AM |

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