Former Vice-President Dick Cheney added his voice to the bickering on Sunday, in his first interview since leaving the White House. While acknowledging to CNN's John King that "the economic circumstances that [Obama] inherited are difficult ones," Cheney also insisted, "I don't think you can blame the Bush administration for the creation of those circumstances."
"The notion that you can just sort of throw it off on the prior administration -- that's interesting rhetoric, but I don't think anybody really cares about that," Cheney stated.
Later in the interview, King put up a chart of "The Bush-Cheney Record," showing that between 2001 and 2008 that had been a leap unemployment from 4.2% to 7.6%, substantial increases in the ranks of the poor and the uninsured, and a shift in the federal budget from a yearly surplus of $128 billion to a deficit of $1.3 trillion.
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