Osler's Razor

I'll admit it:  Today's topic was prompted by an article in The Onion headline proclaiming Dick Cheney Vice-Presidential Library Opens in Pitch-Dark, Sulfurous Underground Cave.

Seriously, though... how will Dick Cheney be remembered?  The early line is "maybe not so well."  He is associated with the not-so-great aspects of the Bush years (waterboarding, the flimsy reasons for going to war in Iraq, etc.), and not the successes (such as those we discussed last week or the homelessness initiative profiled below).

Personally, I thought he should not have been allowed the office in the first place, since the Constitution bars people from the same state from holding the offices of president and vice-president, and both Cheney and Bush really lived in Texas at the time they began running for office.  If we assume there is a reason for Constitutional restrictions, and there are, there really was a problem with both men being from the same state.  Cheney's candidacy violated both the letter and the spirit of the Constitution, to my mind.  Of course, as so often happens, certain federal judges disagreed with me.

What do you think the legacy of Dick Cheney will be?  And where is he, now, anyways?