Oedipus Bush

Via The Daily Dish, Patrick Appel highlights Barton Gellman's revelation in the Washington Post about Cheney and Bush's relationship during Act II:

“In the second term, he felt Bush was moving away from him,” said a participant in the recent gathering, describing Cheney’s reply. “He said Bush was shackled by the public reaction and the criticism he took. Bush was more malleable to that. The implication was that Bush had gone soft on him, or rather Bush had hardened against Cheney’s advice. He’d showed an independence that Cheney didn’t see coming. It was clear that Cheney’s doctrine was cast-iron strength at all times — never apologize, never explain — and Bush moved toward the conciliatory.”

While I will never go as far as to say that none of the past eight years was his fault, I think some day we will find that George W. Bush was the unlikely king who was used as a front for the far more insidious motives of his most trusted friends and advisors.

Not quite Disney movie worthy, but I think the ancient Greeks would have enjoyed it.