How’s this for having your head truly, deeply, completely up your ass?

Newsweek editor Jon Meacham makes this outrageous assertion in a bizarre piece arguing that what the country really needs at this point is for Dick Cheney to run for president in 2012:

No one foresaw Cheney’s reemergence as a force in the politics of the 21st century until it happened.

Just to put that in perspective, a new Washington Post poll asked Republicans “who in the GOP best reflects the party’s principles”. Our Dick didn’t exactly shine:

… only a single person in the poll cites former vice president Richard B. Cheney.

Maybe that’s what Meacham means? Dick is a singular force in the politics of the 21st century?