On Sunday, delusional Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Maureen Dowd dropped another steaming screed onto the pages of The New York Times. Her rambling column, titled “A Mad Tea Party,” begins with Sen. Ted Cruz, then somehow morphs into a nostalgic rant about former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who has not been Secretary of Defense for seven years.

She begins with an idiotic Cruz pun, and it’s all downhill from there:

HOW awful are Ted Cruz and his Cruzettes? They have done the impossible. They have made Americans look back at the Bush II era, the most reckless wrecking ball in American history, with relative nostalgia. With 78 percent of Americans feeling blue about the country being on the wrong track, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, many consider the G.O.P.’s imperialistic unilaterists less loco than the narcissistic anarchists. As grandiose delusions go, global domination makes more sense than self-annihilation.

With that nonsense out of the way, Dowd centers in on her favorite target – the Bush administration. For a woman who proclaims that she’s anti-nostalgia for Bush, she’s pretty nostalgic for Bush to kick around:

The acrid legacy of Cheney and Rummy lives on as they carp from the sidelines about the “so-called commander in chief.” In December, “The Unknown Known,” an Errol Morris documentary about the man who was the youngest and oldest secretary of defense, hits theaters.

Morris won an Oscar in 2004 for “Fog of War,” his documentary about another dangerous, delusional defense secretary with wire-rimmed glasses, Robert McNamara; in his acceptance speech, Morris warned that, with Iraq,

America might be going down another “rabbit hole.”

But the cocky Rummy talked to him for 33 hours anyway. Unlike McNamara, however, Rumsfeld does not admit his historic blunders, but maintains his “Stuff happens” brio.

It’s sad when you’re so unwilling to be honest about the current occupant of the White House that you have to attack his predecessor’s administration – five years into the current occupant’s term.