What part of STFU do you not understand, sir?

I'm really just going to need to stop reading any article with "Cheney" in the headline, because getting this furious on a daily basis about his every despicable emanation can't be good for me. Today's password is: Hypocrisy.

President Barack Obama's expansion of the federal government into the financial sector is likely to have "devastating" effects in the long term, former Vice President Dick Cheney said in his latest salvo directed at the new White House administration.

..."I worry very much that we're in a situation now where there doesn't appear to be any limitation whatsoever in terms of the spending commitments that this administration wants to make," he said. "Vast expansion in terms of the deficit, but it also says a lot about what they intend for the role of government in this society."

..."I'm one of those people who believes that part of the greatness of the United States is our private sector. "It's what we do as private citizens for ourselves and our companies," he said, later adding, "I think we have to be very, very cautious. I think we've gone beyond what reasonably we could expect by way of intrusion into the private sector."

*CHOKE*GASP*SPUTTER*SEETHE*

His administration oversaw two wars + tax cuts, massive deficits, and unregulated markets that caused an economic collapse, all of which was used to make war profiteers, corporate mercenaries, predatory lenders, and various other swindlers—aka his friends and former colleagues—rich beyond their wildest dreams. He used the government as a goddamned ATM for the white collar criminal class, and now he's got the unmitigated temerity to criticize Obama for misusing the federal government because he's trying to use a tiny part of it to help out the Average Janes and Joes on whose backs Cheney and his robber baron cronies stepped while plundering the treasury.

Fuck Dick Cheney and the enormous pillaging elephant he rode in on.