The tiresome Cheney Cycle

By Steve Benen
The cycle has become rather tiresome: Dick Cheney pops up, talks about how much he hates President Obama, makes a few headlines, waits a few days, and then starts the cycle anew. It stopped being interesting quite a while ago.

That said, the failed former vice president has become a little more unhinged than usual lately, and this morning he told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt that the president is “about to give [Iran] nuclear weapons.”

This is obviously the kind of rant an adult should find hard to take seriously. Cheney, whose perpetual whining for the last several years has had all the sophistication of the typical Twitter troll, is effectively attacking the president’s patriotism. His argument is that if there was an anti-American traitor in the White House, that turncoat’s agenda would be indistinguishable from Obama’s agenda.

In other words, Cheney sees Obama as some kind of Manchurian Candidate who’s trying to hurt us and help America’s foes on purpose.

I can appreciate why Cheney might feel a little embarrassed right now. Obama has spent the last six years cleaning up his predecessors’ messes, and he’s had quite a bit of success, which very likely makes the failed former V.P. uncomfortable. In this light, Cheney’s near-constant complaints are a little childish – it’s as if Cheney’s feeling self-conscious about the fact that Obama’s fixing what Cheney broke, and this leads him to lash out irrationally.

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