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On today’s podcast, I read my exchanges yesterday with my sister from her bomb shelter in Tel Aviv to give listeners a real-time sense of what it’s like to be under rocket attack. And then we express our outrage at the liberal effort to blame Israel for the assault upon it before we take up the ouster of Liz Cheney from House leadership and what it portends about the Republican future and Donald Trump. Give a listen.
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I believe the analysts who say that the reason Cheney had to go is not because of her vote for impeachment and not because of her views of Donald Trump but because she could not stop promoting those views when what’s relevant is what Biden is doing now.
Cheney as the underdog? Really?
No less than Jeb!
Things that can be true at the same time:
The election was stolen (one way or another, maybe even in a legal way).
Trump is scum personally, electorally iffy, getting on in years, and not the best idea for the 2024 election.
Current GOP politicians need to critique the Biden administration more than they need to critique Trump.
Could it be that Trump changed the Republican Party that Liz Cheney knew and loved, into something that she does not know and hates? Liz is a jilted politician who can’t control here emotional reaction to change, and won’t consider adapting.
For all his faults, Trump presided as the most conservative President we have had since Reagan (a low bar, I admit). Liz is a Republican swamper who likes the the other long time Republican swampers more than conservative government. Liz is a toxic swamper, a crocodile with genetically modified gain of function poison spurting razor sharp teeth, to be used against any threats to the swamp. It took a while to wrestle her down and wire her jaws shut, and expel her from the little piece of dry land reclaimed by the Trump administration from the DC swamp. Unfortunately, she has now been released into the vast unreclaimed mire, to plot at leisure for further forays. I hope her raging emotional fires will be banked by the overwhelming adoration of the rest of the swamp. Awards, lavishly compensated do-nothing appointments, magazine covers, etc., await her.
Concise.