should the DNC be engaging with this? Mightn't it be better to stand back and let the train wreck unfold on its own? Why pile on?

Cheney's comments and frequent media pop-ups are nothing more than a grasping at straws attempt to stay relevant by a reviled man sliding into obscurity. Times have changed, and no one gives a fuck about Dick Cheney or what he thinks.

Cheney has no love of his country, if he did, why would he have spent the last eight years trying to dismantle everything it stood for?

"He is not a torture freak." Actually, Rush, he is. He's a psychopath. He's a twisted ideological freak of the worst kind. Just like you.

"Once everybody who actually experienced the Bush Administration is dead and gone, its reputation will begin to improve."

that Cheney is speaking as the corporate animal he is first and last, and is doing damage control for his (and Limbaugh's) brand? And that is has nothing to do with love of country, but with love of control (a subject clearly dear to his heart)?

(And also as a preemptive strike against prosecution, because we all know how well that tactic worked out for him and Halliburton. Cha-ching.)

Cheney is being so vocal, in my opinion, so that he can tamp down the burning straw of potential prosecutions before it becomes a wild fire.

Speaking of drive by media, why is anyone giving Limbaugh the time of day?

If you're a moderate conservative

You're just essentially middle 'o the road

Road kill

Limbaugh is essentially right on the two biggest issues concerning Cheney and Powell.

First, on Powell; Limbaugh asked Powell the unanswerable question, the moment that Powell endorsed Obama and turned his back on the moderate Republican, John McCain. What a lie for Powell to have said that his Republican party, the party he knew, had slid out from under him. General Powell, we gave you the nominee whom you wanted. A fellow Vietnam vet. A moderate who didn't like the Bush administration interrogation techniques. A pro-military guy who joined you with concerns about Secretary Rumsfeld's handling of the early part of the Iraq war.

Powell's endorsement of Obama is inexplicable on virtually every objective policy basis that I can think of. Maybe one of you good people can tell me which Obama policy it was that Powell preferred to a McCain policy on the same issue.

Second, on Cheney; I know the Salon answer to "What motivates Cheney?" Your answer is, "He's trying to build a political defense to possible 'war crimes' or 'torture' charges." Yeah, right. Like who's gonna prosecute him? It's never going to happen. Justice has folded. They might (emphasis "might") refer some of the lawyers to state bar associations for review of legal ethics. Let me pause to collect myself after laughing so hard. There. Uh, Dick Cheney isn't a lawyer. And he didn't "torture" anybody. You are agoing to claim that the actual CIA operatives involved in questioning are NOT going to be prosecuted, since they relied on DoJ opinions, but that Dick Cheney, also not a lawyer and relying ont he same advice IS going to be prosecuted?

In 100 years the Bush/Cheney part of history will probably be titled "The Decline of America as a super power".

The only way Cheney & company can come back any time soon is if this country suffers a catastrophe that they can successfully blame on the Democrats.

Everything Cheney and the GOP does these days is positioning to be able to do exactly that.

I just hope there aren't any Cheney followers left in the intelligence community who can help bring about the disaster the Republicans need so badly.

with its connotations of drive-by shootings, cowardly punks who will only take shots at you from inside the getaway vehicle.

Unfortunately, the media is structured so that that's all you have time to do.

Limbaugh shouldn't complain. At least with a drive-by, in a few seconds they've moved on. If the media were designed to do things right, they'd pull up, park, get out and spend three or four hours (metaphorically) beating you to death with tire irons.

Why would we have a democratic president now and his opponenet was a moderate republican if the public wants "more conservatives"? If that were true, McCain wouldn't have even gotten the nomination. The right must really think the public is stupid to keep shooting itself in the foot like this.

Repeats the same words over and over in his sleep

Each and every night.

Ironic considering you are one of the folks we have to thank for the gift of Palin. Powell considered that choice of VP unserious and perplexing. McCain's further campaign antics convinced Powell that, even though he was a republican, that particular man and woman had no business being in the big house.

As for Cheney, write him all the love letters you wish. The man is a liar, a cheat, and has shown little love for our troops, the nation, or his own misguided political party.

Cheney is defending himself from what is finally becoming visible to much of the public, that the United States tortured prisoners with cooked lawbooks. It wasn't legal, it wasn't necessary, and it wasn't effective. His motivations are only about saving himself from prosecution by meddling the discussion and injecting fear in to our national spirit.

If Republicans demand that we have a Supreme Court judge without "empathy", then how do they insist the public and the courts have it for all of Bush/Cheney's post 9/11 actions and policy?

elephantman doesn't remember why powell endorsed obama!

Ironic considering you are one of the folks we have to thank for the gift of Palin. Powell considered that choice of VP unserious and perplexing. McCain's further campaign antics convinced Powell that, even though he was a republican, that particular man and woman had no business being in the big house.

As for Cheney, write him all the love letters you wish. The man is a liar, a cheat, and has shown little love for our troops, the nation, or his own misguided political party.

-- meffert

Be serious. Give me a single substantive issue on which Powell chose Obama over McCain, and I'll show you a Democrat. Of course, Powell can do whatever he wants. It's a free country. Just don't pretend to be a Republican if you are campaigning for Democrats. Campaign for Republicans, at least most Republicans, if you want to be one. Be a Democrat if you want Democrats to be elected.

Nobody wants to "kick Colin Powell" out of the party. We wanted him to be a Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and then Secretary of State, and perhaps a Vice Presidential candidate. I had once thought that he was the 'most-likely-future-First-Black-President.'

And, as for Cheney; attack him all you want. He's not running for anything, although I wish he would.