Say Goodnight, Dick.

Dick Cheney has certainly been vocal for the last couple of months, and I have to say, that I am somewhat surprised. Not completely surprised, but somewhat. I think it was his wheelchair appearance at President Obama's inauguration that led me to believe that Cheney might recede into the woodwork. It did seem a little morose.

Well, anyway, he is definitely no where even near the woodwork. In early February, the New York Times had this to say regarding a Cheney interview: In an interview two weeks after leaving office, former Vice President Dick Cheney predicted a “high probability” of a nuclear or biological attack in the next few years and said the Obama administration was approaching a “tough, mean, dirty, nasty business” of keeping the country safe from terrorists too timidly.

Cheney was interviewed just yesterday on CNN's, State of the Union; during this interview, Cheney said that President Obama had made the country less safe, and that the new administration’s changes to detention and interrogation programs for terrorism suspects would hamper intelligence gathering. Oh, and according to Cheney, our current economic woes have nothing to do with the Bush administration.

Well, so much for the woodwork. In fact, I don't perceive any "goodnight, Dick" in the near future. Remember that line from Rowan and Martin's, Laugh-In? At the end of each show, Dan Rowan would usually tell Dick Martin to, "say goodnight, Dick." That was pretty risque for the 1960s. Just in case you want a little dose of Laugh-In humor, here you go: