QOTD -- Rejecting Trump's "Depraved Cruelty"

 

"... Now we may disagree on some things, but we are bound together by the one thing that matters most to us as Americans more than any other.  And that's our duty to the Constitution and our belief in the miracle and blessing of this incredible nation.  We have a shared commitment, a shared commitment as Americans to ensuring that future generations live in a nation where power is transferred peacefully, where are leaders are men and women of good faith, and where our public servants set aside partisan battles to do what's right for this country.  So today, I ask all of you here and everyone listening across this great country to join us.  I ask you to meet this moment.  I ask you to stand in truth, to reject the depraved cruelty of Donald Trump. And I ask you, instead, to help us elect Kamala Harris for president.” -- former Rep. Liz Cheney, speaking at Ripon College in Wisconsin yesterday, campaigning with Vice President Harris at the birthplace of the Republican Party. 

Liz Cheney Gets The Kate McKinnon Treatment

 

Kate McKinnon is Liz Cheney explaining how she's going to turn around the rotted out Republican Party last night on Saturday Night Live:

Liz Cheney, Quitter

Citing "serious health issues" in her family, Liz Cheney, toxic spawn of Dick "Dick" Cheney, has called it quits in her doomed Senate race against fellow Rethuglican Sen. Mike "Bitter" Enzi in Wyoming.  One wonders if the health issues involve her bionic daddy or the nausea she must've suffered looking at her disastrous poll numbers.  Now, please go away never to return.

BONUS:  Esquire.com's Charles P. Pierce adds his observations on the political demise of "Daddy's Little Deferment."

When Lizards Attack

When you call yourself a conservative and legal icons of the right -- including former Judge Kenneth Starr and former Solicitor General Ted Olson -- say you're "out of bounds" and "unwise," you have descended into the depths of fringe-right hackery. That's where The Dick's evil spawn Liz "Lizard" Cheney finds herself after her organization ran ads this past weekend smearing 7 lawyers now working for the Justice Department for providing defense counsel for Guantanamo detainees in the past -- as requested by the Pentagon. Starr and other luminaries of the right -- to their credit -- published a rebuke of Lizard's Joe McCarthy-like smear. More of that kind of push-back would be welcome.

UPDATE: Glenn Greenwald notes that Bushit Assministration speechwriter Marc "The Weasel" Thiessen defends Lizard's smear on, what else, the op-ed page of Fred Hiatt's Kaplan Daily. This is the same standards-free paper that prints Chuck Kraphammer, Wee Willie Kristol, the Kagans, and every other neocon fabricator that they can find to rewrite history.

(photo: The poop didn't fall far from the butt)

Liz Cheney...

...a chip off the old Dick.

(Image: Liz Cheney, on a good day)

Lizard's Loquaciouness

WaPo media critic Tom Shales has a good take on the hijacking of last Sunday's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" by The Dick's daughter, Lizard "Liz" Cheney. Lizard is in full screech mode on the program, refusing to shut up so that others can introduce inconvenient facts into the discussion. Shales notes that Lizard -- a "rising purple pundit of the right" -- continuously talked over other guests who were disagreeing with her dishonest statements concerning torture and terrorists. Shales writes:

"Cheney has a way onf continuing to talk, charging forward in single-minded determination, when someone else has the floor, even if that 'someone' might be moderator Stepahanopoulos. . .It may not matter to Cheney that her own argument can't be understood as she continues on her course of rudeness as rhetoric. . .this is 'discussion' as obfuscation, the use of language not to communicate but to obliterate."

Lizard's technique is not new; it's the standard technique of Rethugs and righties when "debating" progressives or simply answering questions. They've been to their "media school" and taught to talk and talk until the time is used up and their questioner can't follow up or pose more questions, or their progressive counterpart has no time to respond. It's also symbolic of their anti-democratic, authoritarian mindset which they used in the past eight years to stifle discussion, smear Dems and shout down the opposition. Letting them near the levers of power again would be very dangerous to our liberty.