Liz Cheney breaks with Bushies over Imam behind "Ground Zero mosque"

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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/08/liz_cheney_breaks_with_bush_ad.html
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Now Liz Cheney's group, Keep America Safe, has responded, blaring on its Website that the State Department "ignores facts" if it thinks the Imam is a "moderate." It has also posted links to criticism of the move and approvingly posted video of a Fox News anchor hectoring a State Department official over the move:

Amusingly enough, members of the administration presided over by Liz's father, such as Karen Hughes, included this Imam in administration programs designed to improve relations with Muslim countries.

The Cheney wing of the Bush administration, of course, was always further to the right than other administration insiders on national security matters involving relations with Muslim countries. So in a sense it's not surprising that Liz would break with Bushies over this.

But what's key here is that the Cheneyite position is now the mainstream Republican one. The Cheneyite world view has supplanted that of the more moderate Repubican national security establishment -- not to mention that of many Bushies, who maintained that good relations with Islam is a desirable goal. The Cheneyites set the tone for the stances of many Republicans in high-profile national security political fights.
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Which is why Obama et al should have had this war criminal arrested for crimes against humanity.

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1. Excuse me, Liz, don't you have a parent without a heart to attend to?

I suggest you stay out of politics and scuttle on over to Daddy Dick's bedside.

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3. Amazing isn't it

She may be worse than her father

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2. Liz has to make her Tea Bagger bones

And one of the best ways to appeal to the nutzoid right is to say things like this. This is the arm of the Republican party that believes a land use option is more concerning, possibly even to the point of criminality, than torturing people or locking them up indefinitely without charge or counsel.

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4. This is the wing of the ReTHUG party that will tear

up the Constitution without batting an eyelid.