You want irony?
Boy, do we have irony.
Remember Dick Cheney? That’s right, the guy who truly believed that torturing enemy prisoners was a good thing for us to do in fighting the War on Terror. The guy who shot an old man in the face on a hunting trip and then got the victim to apologize for getting in the way of his shot.
There’s plenty of other stuff, and there are certainly some of us who will never forget Dick Cheney.
But when Americans hear the name Cheney today, they’re far more likely to think of his daughter Liz, Wyoming’s representative in Congress. Ms. Cheney held a leadership position in the House Republican hierarchy and was regarded as a true up and comer until she called Donald Trump a liar.
As a result, she lost her position in the leadership and will have to fight to keep her House seat in 2022.
Going to war with Trump is reminiscent of the story about why we don’t wrestle with pigs. You don’t accomplish anything, you get dirty and the pig enjoys it.
Regardless on the praise she is receiving in some areas, Cheney isn’t someone to idolize. She is one of the most conservative members of Congress, voting with Trump 92 percent of the time. She agrees with her father on the efficacy or torture and she isn’t likely to support anything President Biden proposes.
She doesn’t even have the saving grace her father had. Dick Cheney was supportive to some extent of LGBTQ rights because his other daughter, Mary, was gay.
Running in conservative Wyoming, Liz essentially threw her sister under the bus.
But as the GOP goes farther down the road toward crowning Trump and supporting the insane QAnon agenda, folks who won’t go that route need at least to be encouraged.
If the GOP becomes the GQP, accusing Democrats of being pedophile Satanists, they need to be marginalized.
Otherwise, the USA is going to become the QSA, and we can’t have that.