Liz Cheney, a Portrait in Courage
And a very conservative Republican
Every once in a while, a Republican will stand up and say, “No more.” And that delights my heart and gives me momentary hope. Were I in charge, I would give Ms. Cheney the highest civilian medal and a statue in the halls of Congress. But I hesitate to risk my FDR-inspired values and will watch how she votes when she is elected to whatever position she chooses.
She has voted against Obamacare and is a true rock-ribbed Republican in favor of small government, tax cuts, and national defense. But she favors raising the retirement age which will cheat those affected and she opposed Obamacare.
Time Magazine calculated that since 1981, $50 trillion, with a “T”, was redistributed upward to the phenomenally rich, “soaking” the working poor, the working class and the middle class. Those $50 trillion the rich have received gratis as welfare payments must be redistrubed back to the nation’s coffers, to ensuring a robust Social Security for the elderly and disabled, Medicare for all, and to build enough durable, liveable housing for every homeless person in this country.
A decent living is never a privilege for the well-off. It is a right of every human being….and I remain a capitalist who believes in sane regulation.
Point taken.
Carol L. Clark: You state it exactly right and with a good, generous spirit.
I LOVE, just LOVE Dick Cheney and Liz Cheney.
Having said that, I oppose their chief policies. Having spent my whole career with the Navy (Office of General Counsel, GS-15) and a judge advocate in the reserves -- 28 years of service (Lt Col, USAFR, Retired), I condemn and oppose with all I have any use of torture -- and both Cheneys supported the GWB implementation of torture.*
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*Armando speaks ONLY for himself and neither the Navy or Air Force allow Armando to speak for them. The Navy and Air Force speak only through official channels.
I will never forgive them.
But I take allies where we find them.
And the Cheneys have the courage of their convictions.
Despite utter opposition to their policies, I welcome courageous fellow citizens, the Cheneys, to help the fight towards maintaining the integrity of our Republic.
I am upset that the GOP exiles the Cheneys, of all people, for an Orange-Carnival Barker.
The most dangerous phenomenon of our time is the war on women and minorities carried out by white-racist-nationalists who parade as "Christians".
The old, anti-Semitic trope was the blood libel -- the obscene lie, designed only to incite hatred and violence (the lie was crude: Jews celebrate a mock-Mass, where they eat children they have just kidnapped). The blood libel led to the Third Reich.
Now, the so-called mainstream of the GOP has re-incarnated the blood libel and turned it against good, decent, loving and gentle people: Haitians.
The blood libel ("they eat the kittens and puppies they stole from you in Voodoo ceremonies) has incited bombings and other violence.
And the ones inciting these evils are Ivy League products: JD Vance.
But Joseph Goebbels, two, was highly educated at one of the great universities: PhD, Heidelberg University.
We need, we desperately NEED a Conservative, principled, Wall-Street GOP in the spirit of Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek: These two believed in Freedom, they were inalterably opposed to racism and totalitarianism, were civil, even friendly with opponents (Fr. Hayek spoke lovingly of John Maynard Keynes, whose economic policies he opposed), and Fr. Hayek had escaped from the Third Reich and had written several books, not least, "The Road to Serfdom", in opposition to the Third Reich. I oppose most of their free-market ideas, since I am more of a Social Democrat. But the voices of Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek are most welcome, healthy voices for Conservatism.
We need ONE of the TWO major Parties to represent the Free-Market, freedom loving, people-loving leaders like Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek.
The Democratic Party represents me fully: I love INCLUSION, and love for ALL PERSONS, the dignity of ALL, the FREEDOM of WOMAN, LGBTQ . . . rights, Latinos . . . Social Justice.
But Socialist instincts, which are my own, and I love these principles wholeheartedly, do not represent a large part of our populace.
The Conservative, in the humane, welcoming, free-market tradition of Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek are NEEDED AND DESIRED.
I want Hakeem Jeffries to be House Speaker -- Third in line to the Presidency.
But I want the GOP to return to the humanity, the intellectual philosophy of Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek, to represent millions, and to remind Social Democrats like me that my plans for social welfare need to respect fiscal restraints.
I have loved the traditional Conservatism of Bill Buckley and Russell Kirk, even though I fundamentally disagree with them.
But I disagree with such intelligent, articulate Conservatives over a friendly cup of coffee or shots of 4-Roses Bourbon.
What you are doing, Carol L. Clark, is so important. We are friends and we stand together!