Cheney Can Go Now

Update II: GOP to Cheney: Please go away (Alex Koppelman)

Update: See also How dare you criticize this man? (Joan Walsh) and The outrageous offenses against Richard Cheney (Glenn Greenwald).

On matters of national security, Dick Cheney has all the credibility of a serial arsonist volunteering to be the office fire warden.

But Cheney now offers his McCarthyesque assessment of President Obama's performance on national security (after almost 60 days in office), Iraq and sundry other disasters of the Bush-Cheney administration. In sum, according to Cheney, they did well and Obama is doing badly.

'(Obama) is making some choices that, in my mind, will, in fact, raise the risk to the American people of another attack,' Mr. Cheney said of Mr. Obama in an interview on the CNN program 'State of the Union.' [Sulzberger, NYT]

Cheney and his fellow destroy-America-first crowd ought to slink away and spare us their continued lies and fear mongering.

As for Obama, there's much Bush-Cheney damage to repair, but how about retiring that ridiculous Homeland Security color-coded threat level system. Just ditch this relic of an administration that lived on instilling fear to wield its control over this country for eight years.

Returning to the 1950s-60s duck-and cover civil defence system makes about as much sense as retaining the color-coded threat level system, and the politics of fear should be acknowledged as such and then publicly discarded by Obama.