Why Dick Cheney's daughter lost her party

Against Crony Capitalism

on Surber  "Dick Cheney's daughter lectured Republican congressmen on decorum, earning seal-like applause from National Review. The headline was a hoot, "Liz Cheney: ‘We Cannot Become the Party of QAnon.’ "

"She had just survived an unusual vote to strip her of her party leadership. In response, she became the teacher chastising the class for their behavior when the substitute teacher presided. 

"Her full statement, according to National Review, was, "I have to tell you I am really, deeply, deeply concerned about where we are as a party."

Lie No. 1. Dick's daughter could no more care about her party than her father does. They got theirs. She just uses Republicans to get power. Did you see any Cheneys campaigning for the party's presidential nomination last year? I didn't.

"She went on, saying, "I am very concerned about the extent to which we are spending all of our time on these issues and these battles and not on the battles that really matter, the battles over substance, the battles over ensuring that we don’t watch the Biden administration go down the path where they have an open runway to absolutely eliminate our freedom."" . . .

. . . "Dick's daughter can keep her phony baloney leadership post and work to ride Marjorie Taylor Greene out of Washington on a rail.

"But I doubt Wyomingites will re-elect the Dick's daughter because they now realize she is just another Democrat living in Washington. She's a plain Jane version of Meghan McCain, but just as spoiled.

"She lost her party because she failed to do a damned thing for the voters.  . . ."

Hubris: Elites brazenly gloat they rigged election ... and that's good news for us

 Hubris: 1. pride or arrogance  2. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) (in Greek tragedy) an excess of ambition, pride, etc, ultimately causing the transgressor's ruin

Monica Showalter  "If one of us had declared that a "cabal" of elites, composed of big corporates, big labor, big tech, big green, and Black Lives Matter had all conspired together to rig the 2020 election, we'd have been called nuts. We'd be tin-foil hatters, far-right loonies, and denizens of the dreaded QAnon.

"But surprise, surprise, the cabal has come out of the closet in a shocking piece that ran in Time magazine titled: "The Secret Bipartisan History of the Shadow Campaign that Saved the 2020 Election," by Democrat-with-byline Molly Ball:

This is the inside story of the conspiracy to save the 2020 election, based on access to the group’s inner workings, never-before-seen documents and interviews with dozens of those involved from across the political spectrum.  . .

 . . . "Laura Ingraham has an appropriatedly outraged segment worth listening to on this now-brazen, vile plot, which if you can't stand reading Ball, amounts to an intelligent summary: . . ."

As Socialism Becomes More Popular, Its Problems Become More Obvious

Bruce Deitrick Price  "Socialism promises a fairer society.  Many people, regardless of their political labels, respond to this goal.  Even some Christians see socialism and Christianity as converging belief systems.  Both sides say we have a moral duty to care for the needy and hungry.

"Any advocacy of socialism generates at least some degree of sympathetic agreement.  Some suspect that socialism, compared to capitalism, occupies the moral high ground.

"The problem that quickly arises is the matter of choice or free will.  Will you accept socialism only because a powerful government threatens you?  If you are compelled to do something, the spirituality goes out of it. 

"Even if you become a socialist because you believe it’s the enlightened choice, many dangers loom.  Mainly, can you withdraw from a socialist agenda if it starts to be oppressive and indeed murderous?  How do you back up?  Ask the Venezuelans." . . .