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RINOS Surround and Protect a Wounded Member of the Herd
A Who’s-Whom of Bush-Republicans is holding a fundraiser to help Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney fend off a primary challenge from a conservative challenger who will vote the same as Cheney but probably won’t sign onto one of Nancy Pelosi’s January 6th Show Trials. The fundraiser will be held in Cheney’s hometown of Jackson Hole, WY, McLean, VA, and will feature Utah Senator Pierre Delecto. The guest list is an epic networking opportunity of globalists, neoconservatives, and people who still think the War in Afghanistan was a good idea.
Expected to attend are former Oklahoma Sen. Don Nickles, former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, former Dick Cheney aide Scooter Libby, former presidential candidate and ex-Hewlett-Packard executive Carly Fiorina, former Solicitor General Ted Olson, conservative lawyer Miguel Estrada and former Massachusetts Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey, who served under Romney when he was governor of the Bay State.
The Bush Republicans despise Trump and a big part of their hatred is because “Trumpism” — the idea that Republicans once elected should try to advance the policies they campaigned on — is a threat to the control of the party the Bushes enjoyed from the end of the Reagan Administration. These are people who favor high levels of illegal immigration because it provides cheap labor, they favor outsourcing American industry to China because that helps Wall Street get wealthier, they favor foreign intervention and “nation-building” no matter how many times it fails, and they are comfortable letting Democrats control the domestic agenda.
They are the leaders of a movement hopelessly out of touch with ordinary Americans and Republican voters. While they are willing to tolerate working-class people voting Republican, they are appalled that the lower classes actually want the party’s policies to reflect their interests. (The very nerve!) They are puzzled that the working class seems unwilling to go to war to protect their financial interests. Even more than Trump, they despise us.
These are Liz Cheney’s people.
I would love to see Liz Cheney get kicked to the curb on August 16th, but we will see if her daddy’s wealthy friends can raise enough money to save her, and if money matters more than principles.
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This is just my opinion, but the best thing is to stick to public policy and everything adjacent to that. The other thing is, the country has gone so far south since the mid-90s, you may not be able to be idealistic about some things.
It is objective fact that Biden is a plagiarist and a liar. Those are not characteristics of people with integrity. Perry is a fool.
Some of these things are so dumb, for lack of a better word, they just leave me speechless.
Go look at Heath Mayo’s twitter. That’s the guy that is at the top of Principles First. It’s all boiler plate or as dumb as that observation. He’s never been worse than he is now.Then they all chime in like they are real excited. It’s scary if you think about it very much.
Martyr Made does a good job explaining what went wrong after the Soviet Union fell in his episode on the Ukraine situation. He compares it to the treatment of Germany after Works War One. The US decided to antagonize them up to the current day instead of trying to bring them along side us.
Considering that the corrupt media just acknowledged that Hunter Biden’s laptop is real and therefore Trump wasn’t just on a witch hunt in asking Ukraine about the Biden’s involvement there it makes people like Liz Cheney voting to impeach all the more odious and corrupt.
Just to be clear, I mean general policies after that point. That is when we started doing everything wrong with respect to trade and automation. We had more flexibility without the Soviet union and we responded poorly to both of those.
We should have switched to a deflationary, libertarian economy and gotten all of our unfunded liabilities under control.
Having said that I likely agree with what that guy is saying.
News about the packed fund-raiser. https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/14/politics/liz-cheney-trump-republican-fundraiser/
Seventy-five people doesn’t sound like a heavy lift, but it’s obviously enough to make CNN breathless.
I think it’s interesting that Trump is defined by Trump, whereas Ms. Cheney and in many cases her allies are defined by… well, by Trump.
Trump, warts and all, represents a positive identity in a way those arrayed against him do not. A growing collection of shattered has-beens of conservatism — not least the hyperventilating pampered maidens over at the Bulwark — define themselves by their opposition to Trump, their obsession with Trump, and, by extension, their self-destructive rejection of most of the basic conservative positions Trump has embraced. For some of them such as Sykes and Kristol and Charon and — well, practically all of them, actually — Trump is the springboard they’re using to launch themselves into well-deserved future obscurity. I wish them safe and speedy travels.
I guess that’s one of the good things to come out of the Trump years. That, and a reminder that America can have a booming economy, a booming energy sector, lower regulation, stable international relations based on respect for our global power, a reasonably controlled southern border, a business-friendly climate, independence from restrictive and dangerous foreign “agreements” like the Paris Accord and Obama’s let’s-give-Iran-the-nuke deal, and a federal government that doesn’t tell the boys that they can use the girls’ locker room.
I miss those things.
So many to choose from, but I’ll just go with this:
Right?
But look on the bright side: here in America, a global spike in energy prices because President Brandon is anti-fossil-fuel just pushes a few people deeper into poverty and greatly inconveniences the rest of us. On the other hand, for a few hundred million people already experiencing energy poverty, this is life-or-death: tens or hundreds of thousands will die because of President Brandon’s misguided pandering to the climate-alarmism ninnies.
So, in case it wasn’t obvious: the bright side is that the good people over at the Bulwark won’t go hungry, nor will they have to spend more of their days gathering firewood to heat their shacks, like much of Africa does.
It’s nice to be able to bring about catastrophe but not, you know, experience that catastrophe. Isn’t it?
So I’m told.
The point of all that, lest anyone miss it:
It’s nice to be able to be self-indulgently high-minded at the expense of the nation and the world. In olden days, only kings enjoyed that kind of privilege. Now high-brow pundits are in on it too.
I’d have more sympathy if we had a border with Ukraine. But, last I checked, we don’t.
There’s a general principle as regards “asylum seekers” that they don’t get to walk through an endless series of countries until they find the one they want. They’re supposed to ask for asylum when they reach the first safe harbor. If they’re knocking at our door, they’re cherry-picking.
I don’t blame them: I’d want to live in America too, if I didn’t already. But I’m a fan of secure borders and a somewhat more jaundiced eye toward asylum seekers — even from the beleaguered Ukraine.
That’s accurate. I think the point is, they have a genuine claim where 90% of the people that don’t go to a port of entry for some reason don’t have a genuine claim.
My goodness, 75 swamp critters and lobbyists. I wonder how much Chinese laundry money was there from her hubbie’s law/lobbying firm.