NY Post: Liz Cheney Smears House GOP For ‘Elevating Anti-Semitic White Supremacists’

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Liz Cheney trashes House Republicans, Kevin McCarthy for ‘elevating’ members who are ‘white supremacists’ and ‘antisemitic’

....Former Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney blistered House Republicans Sunday over the turmoil over the speakership – accusing Rep. Kevin McCarthy of cultivating a hotbed of extremism that led to the recent chaos.....“What we’ve seen is a result of the leadership decisions that Kevin McCarthy made back after the 2020 election and certainly after January 6,” Cheney, a Republican, said of the ousted House speaker during an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.”....“Looking the other way in the face of the kind of assault on our democracy that we’ve seen from Donald Trump and his allies in the House, including Jim Jordan; elevating those members, frankly, some of whom are white supremacists, some of whom are antisemitic,” she went on......did not specify which House Republicans she believed were harboring white supremacist or antisemitic sympathies.

Cheney served in the lower chamber from 2017 until January 2023 when she was taken down in a primary by Rep. Harriet Hageman......“Listen to what you’re saying, that’s crazy!” CNN host Jake Tapper interjected after Cheney talked about the damage her endorsement could do. “You’re super conservative. More than any of the House Republican leadership. You are more conservative than the woman who replaced you — Elise Stefanik — you’re just not nuts and anti-democracy!".....“I think that is a testament about where we are as a country today,” Cheney responded. “And we have to have a party that gets back to advocating those conservative policies and embracing the constitution. That is not what the Republican party is doing today.”

.....The daughter of former vice president Cheney, she rapidly rose through the House GOP ranks during her tenure in Congress, ascending to the No. 3 post of chair of the House Republican Conference when her party was in the minority..... She was booted from the No. 3 House GOP leadership perch in May 2021....Cheney has plans to release a book detailing what she believes went wrong with the GOP.....She also has not ruled out a run for president in 2024.

https://nypost.com/2023/10/22/liz-cheney-trashes-house-gop-for-elevating-white-supremacists-and-antisemitists/

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Liz Cheney: Democrats Have Become The Party Of Anti-Semitism, Infanticide, And Socialism

Rep. Liz Cheney, the third-ranking Republican in the House, told NBC's "Meet The Press" on Sunday that since taking the majority, Democrats have become the party of "anti-Semitism," "infanticide," and "socialism."

...."The Democrats have been in charge for about 2 1/2 months in the House. In that time, they’ve been the party of anti-Semitism, the party of infanticide, the party of socialism. It’s really time for the Democrats, the leadership in that party, to stop it, to stand up and to act worthy, frankly, of the trust the American people have placed in them..."

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/03/10/liz_cheney_democrats_have_become_the_party_of_anti-semitism_infanticide_and_socialism.html

 

Liz Cheney Is Not Your Friend

Just because she’s not getting along with Trump and Kevin McCarthy doesn’t make the current Cheney any less of a vitriol-spewing extremist....The most dangerous game in Washington is the one that starts with an assumption that “the enemy of my enemy in my friend.”...That’s the rationale a lot of otherwise reasonable people are employing as they discuss their newfound affection for Liz Cheney....But Cheney is no friend of Democrats, no friend of fairness and decency in American politics, and no friend of the truth...She’s a rigidly right-wing Republican who got on the wrong side of a power struggle with her fellow rigidly right-wing Republicans....

.... The explanation for her perilous circumstance is simple enough: What was once a party where the name “Cheney” had a lot of sway is now a party where the only name that has any sway is “Trump.”...Liz Cheney is not some moderate maverick Republican who is breaking with her party on policy. She is a right-wing warmonger whose crude attacks on people of color, immigrants, Muslims, and progressives carry the same venom as those of the most extreme members of her caucus—and of the 45th president, whose election in 2016 and reelection in 2020 she enthusiastically supported....But don’t think for a second that she’s standing above the political fray on the high ground of morality. She’s a hyper-partisan, hyper-ideological political strategist who is playing the long game, just as her father did over the course of a political career that began in the Nixon White House during the Vietnam War (in which he avoided serving by collecting multiple draft deferments), extended through the George H.W. Bush White House during the Persian Gulf War (which he mismanaged as a bumbling secretary of defense whose service to the military-industrial complex was so subservient that he ended up as the bumbling CEO of Halliburton), and that ended in the George W. Bush White House during the Iraq War (into which he steered the United States with outrageous lies and a promise that American troops would be “greeted as liberators”)...

....The notion that Liz Cheney is the voice of reason and responsibility is not supported by her record. She’s a fierce militarist, busily proposing new sanctions on Iran, and condemning President Biden’s plans to end the forever war in Afghanistan as “reckless.” She’s sold out to the defense contractors; in March, she ripped House Democrats for making the “grave mistake” of proposing even modest cuts in the bloated Pentagon budget. And she’s every bit as prone to cast jaw-droppingly extreme votes as her colleagues: vigorously opposing the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, attacking even the mildest responses to gun violence as “an assault…on the freedom of the people in Wyoming,” and dismissing the popular American Rescue Plan as a “dangerous” package of “far-left priorities” that “will allow taxpayer money to fund abortion” and “provide stimulus checks for illegal immigrants, criminals, and even terrorists....”

....Two days before the 2020 presidential election, Cheney said Vice President Kamala Harris “sounds like Karl Marx.” Why? The Democrat had dared to suggest that equitable treatment of disadvantaged Americans might involve “giving people the resources and the support they need” to compete on an equal footing with wealthier Americans....Cheney also accused Harris of supporting infanticide—announcing on national television after Biden had selected the California senator as his running mate that Harris backed “abortion up until the ninth month and beyond.” Cheney then proceeded to dismiss Harris’s qualifications—as a former elected prosecutor, state attorney general, and US senator—by claiming that “Joe Biden clearly decided that he was going to make a choice based on somebody’s gender, based on their race and based on his need to placate the very-far socialist left of his party....”

Cheney has reserved her most venomous language for the first two Muslim women to serve in the US House of Representatives. Her targeting of Representatives Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) borders on “obsession....she goes to such extremes that her rhetoric "smacks either of a deep-seated anti-Arab/Muslim bigotry or crass politics designed to prey on the bigotry of your ‘base.’ In either case it’s disgraceful. Your party’s been playing this game for a decade. Shame....”

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/liz-cheney-trump/

 

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Liz Cheney Wants to Make Torture Great Again

She’s back in Washington, and she’s eager to pick up where her dad left off....When Liz Cheney returned to her ancestral home state of Wyoming in 2012, she expected to be greeted as a liberator....But in the rush to jump-start her political career, Cheney neglected to inform the man she was angling to replace—Mike Enzi, her father’s fly-fishing buddy and the state’s senior senator. Enzi had been planning to retire after 2014, and had Cheney asked for his blessing, he might have stepped aside. When she surprised him by jumping into the race, he decided his retirement could wait.....

....Things descended from there. A local newspaper revealed that Cheney had obtained a Wyoming fishing license without fulfilling the residency requirements. Robo­calls alleged that she supported same-sex marriage, prompting her to proclaim that she did not, and provoking her sister, Mary, who is gay, to denounce her on Facebook and cancel their Christmas plans. Cheney found herself in the crosshairs of a bitter insurgency with few allies on her side. She dropped out of the race before the primary.....In November, bolstered by a few mended fences and backed by family friends such as Karl Rove and Donald Rumsfeld, Cheney easily won her race to succeed retiring Republican Rep. Cynthia Lummis for Wyoming’s lone House seat, which was once held by her dad. After eight long years in exile, the Cheneys are back in government, and it might be a while before they go away again.....

Cheney, a veteran of the Bush administration who has inherited her father’s hawkish views, is returning to a Washington, DC, far different from the one the former vice president left eight years ago. After the missing weapons of mass destruction, the Iraqi insurgency, Abu Ghraib, and the other foreign policy and national security fiascoes of the 2000s, neoconservatives lost their grip on the Republican Party....Then Donald Trump blew up everything. With Trump, the GOP coalesced around a candidate who’d lambasted George W. Bush for invading Iraq (despite once supporting the invasion) and flirted with 9/11 truthers. He played footsie with Vladimir Putin and, according to the National Security Agency’s director, got an intentional boost from Russian hacking—all while chastising Hillary Clinton for not being tough enough. He opposed military intervention in Syria but promised to “bomb the ####” out of ISIS and, for good measure, to take its oil. He enthusiastically defended torture and said Edward Snowden should be killed. Several veterans of the Bush administration, including Colin Powell, endorsed Clinton. (The ex-president himself said he did not vote for Trump.)

...Unlike many members of the Bush administration, Cheney was also an unabashed supporter of Donald Trump.... Even as her father’s dark shadow receded after 2008, she emerged as one of Obama’s most relentless national security critics. With a fervor that felt personal, she pilloried the president for changing course on torture and Iraq. But unlike many members of the Bush administration, Cheney was also an unabashed supporter of Trump, embracing some of his more heretical views on trade and immigration and warning that Clinton was little more than a “felon.”  In her first week on Capitol Hill, she has emerged as one of the most vocal defenders of President Trump’s plan to bring back torture. She may just be a bridge by which the neocon establishment returns from exile....

...Although her campaign ads touted her family’s deep Western roots, Cheney spent all but two years of her childhood in the suburbs of northern Virginia. ...Her senior political science thesis, “Evolution of Presidential War Powers,” argued that Congress had only limited authority to restrain the executive branch on matters of military intervention. “The president’s duty to protect national security sometimes comes before his responsibility to keep Congress informed,” she wrote. A decade and a half later, the Bush-Cheney administration would take much the same position....

....After college, Cheney entered the family business, taking a job at the US Agency for International Development during the first Bush administration and working under the direction of Richard Armitage, a future architect of the invasion of Iraq. When **** Cheney chose himself as George W. Bush’s running mate in 2000, Liz left her job in international finance to join the campaign. ...But if anything, she was just as much of a hardliner as he was. According to a recent biography, George H.W. Bush called Liz “tough” and speculated that she’d pushed her father to become even more hawkish....Her first splash came three months after the inauguration, when the Justice Department released new information on the Bush administration’s use of torture. Cheney took the move, along with Obama’s efforts to shut down the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, as a personal insult to her family’s legacy. On cable news programs and at conservative conferences, Cheney became her father’s defender in chief. “When you see the current administration making decisions that really do have the potential to make us less safe, in those circumstances, I would say the vice president doesn’t think that there’s an obligation to be silent,” she said in her fiery debut as a conservative talking head on MSNBC. “There are important reasons why we put policies in place. They clearly kept us safe for seven years.” She co-authored her dad’s memoir, a spirited defense of his tenure as one of America’s least popular vice presidents, and even half-seriously floated him as a possible presidential candidate....

....The chaos of the Trump campaign shattered some of the party’s long-held tenets, but neocon dead-enders who see the president as a blank slate sense an opportunity to return to influence. Cheney has already begun assembling a coalition of the willing. In the final days of the election, she started writing personal checks to Republican candidates in swing districts, future colleagues who just might remember the favor sometime in the near future. Even a Cheney can dabble in soft power now and then....

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/01/liz-cheney-congress-donald-trump-torture/

 

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Tracking Congress In The Age Of Trump - An updating tally of how often every member of the House and the Senate votes with or against the president.

How often Cheney votes in line with Trump’s position? Career - 92.9%

Dec. 20, 2018 Extension of government funding, including $5.7 billion for border wall (217-185) - YES

Jan. 19, 2018 Motion to table articles of impeachment against President Trump (355-66)  - YES

Dec. 6, 2017 Making concealed-carry firearm permits valid across state lines (231-198) - YES

Dec. 6, 2017 Motion to table articles of impeachment against President Trump (364-58) - YES

Oct. 3, 2017 Banning abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy (237-189) - YES

Sept. 14, 2017 Giving the government more power to deport and deny admission to immigrants suspected of being in gangs (233-175) - YES

June 29, 2017 Increasing penalties for undocumented immigrants who re-enter the U.S. after being convicted of certain crimes (257-167) - YES

June 29, 2017 Penalizing states and localities that have “sanctuary” laws on immigration (228-195) - YES

June 13, 2017 Withholding Affordable Care Act subsidies from people until their citizenship is verified (238-184) - YES

Feb. 16, 2017 Repeal of a rule requiring state and local governments to distribute federal funds to qualified health centers even if they perform abortions (230-188) - YES

Jan. 24, 2017 Permanent ban on the use of federal funds for abortion or health coverage that includes abortions (238-183) - YES

Jan. 13, 2017 Budget resolution to repeal the Affordable Care Act (227-198) - YES

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-trump-score/liz-cheney/

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Maybe I'll buy her new book if Charmin publishes it on a roll.

f you don't want a new career bagging groceries, there's a ditch, go die in it.

[BeachGuy23 642]

8 hours ago, Voltaire said:

Maybe I'll buy her new book if Charmin publishes it on a roll.

f you don't want a new career bagging groceries, there's a ditch, go die in it.

Such hate from you alt righties.  Sucks for you to have such a horrible IRL that you wish death on people for having a different opinion than you.  But that’s how cults work. They attract the least of us.

[RLLD 4,143]

As much as I try I find it challenging to understand Cheney. I am not clear as to what it really is she is standing for or against. Much of what she espouses is difficult to assemble into any kind of pholosophical standard. She seems to flitter from idea to idea with no real congruent philosophy.  She is odd in many ways.  I think her heart is in it....but her mind seems to be all over the place. 

[kilroy69 1,216]

1 minute ago, RLLD said:

As much as I try I find it challenging to understand Cheney. I am not clear as to what it really is she is standing for or against. Much of what she espouses is difficult to assemble into any kind of pholosophical standard. She seems to flitter from idea to idea with no real congruent philosophy.  She is odd in many ways.  I think her heart is in it....but her mind seems to be all over the place. 

She has political ADD

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12 hours ago, kilroy69 said:

She has political ADD

Which means she panders to the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

[The Real timschochet 6,444]

21 hours ago, Voltaire said:

Maybe I'll buy her new book if Charmin publishes it on a roll.

f you don't want a new career bagging groceries, there's a ditch, go die in it.

Wow. Really beneath you. 
 

I don’t agree with her much but the woman has tremendous courage. 

[Dizkneelande 1,085]

So brave!

[Tree of Knowledge 1,711]

She needs to take a hint and go away.  Nobody likes or respects this old prune. 

[squistion 1,956]

On 11/17/2023 at 5:55 AM, BeachGuy23 said:

Such hate from you alt righties.  Sucks for you to have such a horrible IRL that you wish death on people for having a different opinion than you.  But that’s how cults work. They attract the least of us.

I almost feel sorry for people this. Almost.

[Hardcore troubadour 14,952]

Another rich kid that decided to play politician. There are a bunch of them. 

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On 11/17/2023 at 6:48 PM, The Real timschochet said:

I don’t agree with her much but the woman has tremendous courage. 

 

 

[Voltaire 5,202]

On 11/18/2023 at 9:40 AM, Tree of Knowledge said:

She needs to take a hint and go away.  Nobody likes or respects this old prune. 

The corporate media and Democrats (but I repeat myself) like her. They give her a platform because they find her useful to their purposes as a dog that barks at their enemies.