The Disobedient Republican

Big Time at the Center For Security Policy last night:

Adult leadership, indeed.  In a sane and just world (and if he'd ever had any inclination to run), Dick Cheney would be president of the United States today instead of that fascist fraud under whose incompetent, larcenous thuggery we languish, and the United States would still be respected (and, where appropriate, feared) around the world.  He's maintaining his prominence as a Churchillian "voice in the wilderness" to sound the Jeremiahic alarm on the unprecedented disasters Red Barry's switch of the U.S. from the First World to the Second World is making inevitable (Here's a harrowing foretaste).  From effectively quitting the War on Terror to embracing the (Afghan) Taliban to throwing Poland and the Czech Republic under the bus to kowtow to Vlad Putin to blessing the NoKo and Iranian nuclear weapons programs, the former Vice President systematically eviscerated The One from rectum to bellybutton with avuncularly delivered straightforward facts and common sense with which no reasonable listener could possibly find fault.

This would explain why Beltway Bob was rolled out find fault.  Except it wasn't even really a retort, but a reiteration of the same despicable buck-passing on Afghanistan that Big Time refuted:

Recently, President Obama’s advisors have decided that it’s easier to blame the Bush Administration than support our troops. This weekend they leveled a charge that cannot go unanswered. The president’s chief of staff claimed that the Bush Administration hadn’t asked any tough questions about Afghanistan, and he complained that the Obama administration had to start from scratch to put together a strategy.

In the fall of 2008, fully aware of the need to meet new challenges being posed by the Taliban, we dug into every aspect of Afghanistan policy, assembling a team that repeatedly went into the country, reviewing options and recommendations, and briefing President-elect Obama’s team. They asked us not to announce our findings publicly, and we agreed, giving them the benefit of our work and the benefit of the doubt. The new strategy they embraced in March, with a focus on counterinsurgency and an increase in the numbers of troops, bears a striking resemblance to the strategy we passed to them. They made a decision – a good one, I think – and sent a commander into the field to implement it.

Now they seem to be pulling back and blaming others for their failure to implement the strategy they embraced. It’s time for President Obama to do what it takes to win a war he has repeatedly and rightly called a war of necessity.

Now we see - as though it was difficult to predict - why the Obamunists asked the Bushies to keep their Afghanistan findings under wraps.  In essence, the outgoing administration formulated the incoming administration's de facto Afghan "Surge" strategy for them, let them take credit for coming up with it, and then when the general the Li'l President hand-picked to carry it out unsurprisingly determined that it would require 40,000 additional troops (the cost of which he'd much rather squander on health care), the Petulant Child got nauseous and is trying to blame Bush for getting him into his self-created predicament.  Which is only a "predicament" in the sense that he's, you should pardon the expression, got no scroat.

To the contrary, the only enemy (or friend if you include the far Left) before which Barack Obama doesn't grovel like a Mecca pilgrim is the same group he felt free as the Chicago broken winds to denigrate as sheep, yet another act of his trademark contemptuous, candid-when-he-thinks-the-cameras-aren't-rolling, stupendously obtuse projection.  Indeed, the core of the epidmermis-less ObamaHouse's ire with Cheney is precisely that he WON'T "do what he's told" and clam up and skulk back to Wyoming like HIS boss vanished inside Crawford without a trace.

The silver lining for The One?  The "real news organization" is "setting the record straight":

One problem, though: If Cheney's elevators don't all go to the top floor, might Schuster or Gibbs want to take a crack at explaining why the ObamaHouse appears to be taking some of Big Time's advice?  How are they going to swear him to secrecy this time?