Liz Cheney Wants To save TORTURE'S Good Name (and HER Dad's)

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The former vice president's daughter plans to fight for his legacy in her own political career



Toward the end of their term in office, President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney were fond of saying that they weren’t worried about their dreadful approval ratings. History would vindicate them, and that's what matters.


The trouble with waiting for history to vindicate you, though, is that it takes so damn long -- as in centuries after the fact, which is a little to late for gloating. So it’s not hard to understand why a group of Cheney-philes is trying to speed up the process a bit.


But there's a catch: The effort to rehabilitate and revive Cheny-style politics doesn't revolve around the man himself. Instead, his daughter Liz has taken up the mantle. Running a now-infamous group called Keep America Safe, she's vaulted herself to prominence.


Keep America Safe has been in the news recenly for an ad it produced, in which it labeled seven lawyers representing Guantanamo prisoners the "al Qaida seven." This provoked a outrage from just about everyone who's not a Cheney family member or close family friend. Over the weekend, a statement circulated criticizing the group and calling the video "shameful" Signatories include a number of moderate and conservative figures, and a number of past Cheney allies and former members of the Bush administration.


Cheney consigliere Bill Kristol is firing back the best way he knows. In his magazine, the Weekly Standard, Kristol yesterday went after his new critics as "shrinking violets" who are misrepresenting the issue. Call it a hunch, but I suspect the scales of history won't be tipped by this.


On the other hand, Liz Cheney seems to be planning something a little more aggressive. As rumor has it, at the urging of friends, family and GOP operatives, she's thinking of a run for Senate or Congress, either from where she lives in Virginia, or the Cheney ancestral homeland of Wyoming. According to longtime Cheney friend former Sen. Alan Simpson, R-Wy., Liz was especially hurt by what she saw at her father’s mistreatment at the hands of the press and even other Republicans.


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[Vincardog]

1. I want to see her father’s mistreatment at the hands of the COURTS

[mwb970]

2. The two of them just seem like such bad, bad people.

Would Liz be just as awful if her dad were someone else? (i.e. not a paranoid, lying sociopath) Or are they all just "bad seed"? Wifey Lynne is not that impressive if I recall. What about that other daughter, is she worth anything?

With this crowd and the Palin clan, you can really see those conservative "family values" at work.

[Echo In Light]

3. Horrible choices guided by dark emotions

[upi402]

4. "mistreatment at the hands of the press" - huh?

Did hims wittle pwessy-poo not bow down deep enough? awwww

[Motown_Johnny]

5. We should stop using "McCarthyism" and start using "Cheneyism"

That is what their "good name" deserves

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7. Thats a great idea! ' Cheneyism ' is synonymous with criminality & deception and

should become an everyday term used to describe such behavior.

[Winterblues]

6. Alan simpson, isn't that Obama's pick to decide the fate of Social Security and Medicare?

During his time in office I don't think there was a more partisan politician than Simpson and now Obama chooses him to make such decisions.. God help us..

[lumpy]

9. Say it isn't so. Simpson is one of the worst of the worst, He is

anti-everything we hold dear.

[eppur_se_muova]

8. "Cheney ancestral homeland" ??

I'm picturing dead-eyed peasants shuffling in the streets, while iron-wheeled carriages clatter echoingly over the cobblestones ... in the distance, the dark prominence of an ancient castle blots out the moonlit sky, its empty windows eerily reminiscent of an eyeless skull ... in one window, a lone candle gutters in the erratic night breezes, as a hunched figure scratches away with a quill pen.

In the distance, a wolf howls.



















Well, WY does have wolves now.