Powerful crazy

by digby

There are lots of interesting tid-bits in Dick Cheney’s memoir, but I find this one most amusing. He’s speaking of Iran-Contra:

In his memoir, Mr. Cheney writes that the enterprise was “ill conceived” but accuses Democrats of overreaching by trying to “turn the scandal into another Watergate” even though there was no evidence that President Reagan “was guilty of anything except inattention or absentmindedness.” He and other Republicans on the committee “noted many times that we were critical of the administration’s conduct, but we nonetheless worked vigorously to defend the president against the extreme charges made by his critics. I thought it was also crucial to defend the presidency itself against congressional attempts to encroach on its power.”

Sure that makes sense. The congress is supposed to accept not only that the president was completely out to lunch but in that event they are also supposed to let him do whatever he pleases. I have a sneaking suspicion that the founders — former subjects of Mad King George — didn’t exactly plan it that way.