In an interview that aired on the Kudlow Report last night, Dick Cheney told me that Obama’s big-government-bailout-nation-TARP-GM rescue efforts were a big mistake. He compared them to Nixon’s wage-and-price controls. He also inferred that former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson drove the process, not the White House. And Mr. Cheney himself totally opposed the GM bailout. He also welcomed Colin Powell back inside the GOP tent, but with strict conditions. And he said that Team Obama is totally nuts to de-fund the missile-defense program in the face of North Korean nuclear developments. Click here for the complete transcript.