The New York Times is at it again:

The Central Intelligence Agency withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years on direct orders from former Vice President Dick Cheney, the agency’s director, Leon E. Panetta, has told the Senate and House intelligence committees, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said Saturday.

The report that Mr. Cheney was behind the decision to conceal the still-unidentified program from Congress deepened the mystery surrounding it, suggesting that the Bush administration had put a high priority on the program and its secrecy.

Mr. Panetta, who ended the program when he first learned of its existence from subordinates on June 23, briefed the two intelligence committees about it in separate closed sessions the next day.

Sounds terrible, doesn’t it? Not so fast, though. Buried paragraphs down are the following “buts”:

Members of Congress have differed on the significance of the program, whose details remained secret and which even some Democrats have said was properly classified. Most of those interviewed, however, have said that it was an important activity that should have been disclosed to the intelligence committees.

In addition, an unidentifed source stated that the program “never went fully operational”.

Don’t be fooled by any of this. This is just a smoke screen so that Democrats can point to the CIA, via Cheney, and say they were lied to or misled. Neither is true, and Obama’s conduct the last few weeks in regards to the war is proof of that.

See, when Obama was running for the presidency, he had nothing but bad things to say about Bush and Cheney and how they were fighting the war. Once he was sworn in, though, it’s a totally different story. He’s flip-flopped on virtually everything he campaigned on when it comes to the war on terror (and when it comes to a lot of other things, too).

I hate to say it but, once again, I told you so. Back when we were preparing to invade Iraq, Democrats were totally on board. The minute the troops crossed the border and the shooting started, they realized they had an important political issue to make use of. And they lost no time in doing so. Democrats in Congress fell over themselves to see who could denounce the war the fastest. Forget that they actually voted for the war, that was then, this is now!

And here we are today. They now are totally ok in fighting the war. It’s now a cause that must be won, no matter what it takes or what we have to do. Which says to me — indeed, it screams to me — that the Democrats knew this all along, felt it and believed it, yet they put partisan politics over national security. I know…what else is new, right?

The left isn’t done with Cheney or Bush. This goes beyond the war, beyond Kerry’s defeat in 2004, and beyond Algore’s loss in 2000. This is about revenge, pure and simple. Republicans took the Congress from the Democrats in 1994 (how DARE they!), and then the hero of the liberal establishment, Bubba J. Clinton, was caught lying under oath and impeached. So now here we are, a decade later, and the left can’t get past that fact. They want to get even, to make sure that Republicans or conservatives don’t even think of taking the majority again. That’s all this is about.

Well, let me tell you something. If the Democrats continue to repeat history, as they’re doing right now, they’ll soon find themselves in the minority again, because honest, hard-working, tax-paying American citizens aren’t going to sit there and just take this crap from them. They’ll vote their a$$es out of office quicker than you can say “Slick Willy”.