No Sympathy for Liz Cheney

Former U.S. president Donald Trump is orchestrating Liz Cheney’s downfall in Congress. 

The No. 3-ranking Republican—from the single At-Large congressional district in Wyoming—upset her fellow Republicans by stating the 2020 United States presidential election was legitimately won in a Democratic pickup by Joe Biden (who, in the process, unseated Trump)—and the Republicans need to move on from Trump with regard for the direction of their political party. 

This isn’t a quote. But, it is the position of Liz Cheney.

Not long after the 2008 United States presidential election of Barack Obama is when I first noticed Liz Cheney. She would make the rounds on those Sunday-morning talk programs from the broadcast and cable-news networks. Her message: Barack Obama wasn’t protecting us. Her motivation: To continue from her father, 46th U.S. vice president Dick Cheney, with more stances and pushes to continue endless wars.

Liz Cheney is a warmonger.

I recently caught a Hill video of Florida congressman Matt Gaetz—not a supreme person (by any stretch)—having his fun over Cheney’s downfall. Gaetz does not have an entire message which makes me want to truly decamp from the Democrats to the Republicans because he dumps on the Green New Deal while talking about ending endless wars. In other words: Gaetz is not trying to form a new coalition. He says some things that are perceptive. He then counters them with attacks against other factions he should try to win over. What Gaetz offers is a mixed message which will politically and electorally go nowhere. But, for the sake of some entertainment, it was enjoyable to some extent. (Video appears at the bottom.)

My take on the Republican Party, in its current form, is that it needs to get rid of the Old Guard. That the Republicans need to counter-realign against the Democrats by outflanking them on the left on vital issues like economy and the Military Industrial Complex (which, of course, also address war).

The GOP has this problem in common with the Democrats. 

The primaries voters, on the Democratic side, are not smart when it comes to counter-realign, against the Democrats, and they cannot do so without ousting their Old Guard (who are long overdue for their exits). 

The Republican primaries voters are smarter. 

During the 2010s, the Republicans were better at unseating party incumbents, in their bids for re-nomination, because in part they wanted other figures. The Democrats should have gotten rid of every corrupt neoliberal who has made a career in Democratic Party politics—especially when it was ripe to do so—and they willingly failed. (A great example: The 2016 Florida #23 primaries. They needed to oust Debbie Wasserman Schultz, after she become exposed as the corrupt DNC chairwoman who worked for Hillary Clinton and against Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries.)

The Republicans need to get rid of not only Liz Cheney but also Mitch McConnell, who caused them losing the two party-held U.S. Senate seats in 2020 Georgia with his manipulation of a bill that would have delivered $2,000 stimulus checks to U.S. citizens with this COVID–19 pandemic. (Trump wanted it. Which is why McConnell, more so than Trump, cost the party both seats in Georgia.) McConnell did this timed with the early-January 2021 runoff elections with vulnerable Republican incumbents David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler ending up unseated by Democratic challengers Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock. The fact that the former majority leader did this and, yet, fellow Republicans have allowed McConnell to continue to lead them in the upper chamber is every bit an example of the cesspool in Washington, D.C. as are the Democrats having allowed Nancy Pelosi to still lead them in the lower chamber of Congress as she helped cost them their majority in 2010, helped cost them the presidency in 2016, helped cost them seats in 2020—even with Democrats having flipped the presidency—and is now positioned to cost them their current majority in the midterm elections of 2022.

I recommend the following by Shant Mesrobian: Why Are Democrats and Media Liberals Cheering For Liz Cheney? He has a really good read on the overall motivations of Liz Cheney; those who support her; and the Democratic Party Establishment which defends her.

Not only do I not have sympathy for Liz Cheney…

I want this parasite—who has her elected position solely due to her father—out of Congress.