Think about it; Dick Cheney is going right after Barack Obama and saying that the President is endangering the safety of American lives. What does he have to gain by saying something so outrageous? Why not stay in hiding and try pissing off as few people as possible, let alone the President of the United States of America? Because Dick Cheney wants to be able to make any attempts to investigate him look like political payback. It's a simple and stupid strategy. Dick has forgotten that people hate him for a reason.

Congressional Republicans won't denounce Rush Limbaugh, but they'll happily distance themselves from Dick Cheney;

Congressional Republicans are telling Dick Cheney to go back to his undisclosed location and leave them alone to rebuild the Republican Party without his input. /snip Rep. John Duncan Jr. (R-Tenn.) said, "He became so unpopular while he was in the White House that it would probably be better for us politically if he wouldn’t be so public...

Mark Kirk(R-IL) encourages Dick to write a memoir, saying that criticism like that isn't in the tradition of the Founding Fathers. Zach Wamp(R-TN), who wants to be Governor of Tennessee, sums up the general spirit of the Congressional-Republican critics of Dick Cheney;

"With all due respect to former Vice President Cheney, he represents what’s behind us, not what’s ahead of us."

Dick Cheney is absolutely toxic in polling. He makes Rush Limbaugh look like Michelle Obama. He makes George W. Bush look like Malia Obama. Impressions of the former Vice-President are so solidly against him that he is the most ineffective messenger possible for any conservative talking point. He may be smart enough, but too proud to admit that. But the question still remains, why come out and go so hard after the President with the sort of criticism that he used? He's not going to make a run for office. Why should he care?

It all comes back to the things he did, and the things we still don't know about. Dick Cheney is looking for a good position to defend against any potential trial or commission. It's as simple as that.

And on a completely unrelated note, Mike Huckabee really sucks.

On a possibly-related note, however, Condi Rice will be on Leno Tuesday night. I would keep an eye on that.