Terence Samuel on why Dick Cheney’s reemergence can only be good for the Obama administration:
Much of Obama’s success thus far is due to the last administration’s unpopularity. Still looming is the question of how well Obama will fare when he could no longer ride the waves of antipathy toward George W. Bush. Luckily, just when he needs it, someone pops up to remind the American people why they should be thankful. This week, Dick Cheney reappeared in the media spotlight, thanks to his attempts to try to hide from Congress a plan to assassinate high-ranking members of al Qaeda. Details of the plan remain sketchy; it was classified and not operational. But the idea that Cheney was keeping secrets from Congress is so easy to believe that the nixed plan was suddenly huge news.
