Getting Cheney

I've never been able to understand why Cheney brings out so much hatred from the left, but he sure does:

Jules Crittenden » Getting Cheney

The first thing you need to understand about him is his strange power to induce irrationality in his opponents, even greater possibly than the similar power wielded by Bush. It will be the stuff academic careers are built on. For now, we have to make do with the media and punditry, their descriptions of the raw manifestations of Cheney’s dark hold upon the body politic and their efforts, with varying degrees of sophistication, to comprehend.