Cheney bashing! What fun

Here is a quote about Dick Cheney from Lincoln Chafee's new book quoted in Dan Froomkin's column in today electronic Washington Post.

Daniel Heim writes in Roll Call about former Rhode Island Republican senator Lincoln Chafee's new book: "The former Senator describes a December 2000 meeting of Republican moderates with Vice President-elect Cheney. Chafee listened as Cheney swore off the moderate course he and Bush had just finished championing in their campaign.

"Hearing Cheney say 'the campaign was over and that our actions in office would not be dictated by what had to be said in the campaign,' Chafee writes, was 'the most demoralizing moment of my seven-year tenure in the Senate.'"

I am not sure, and it is a time honored political technique, but I believe this is called 'lying to the public.' Nevertheless, the blatant hypocrisy of it is breathtaking. Or would have been once. Of course, all three of the current crop of candidates will swear that they would do no such thing. And Brutus is an honorable man.