Burn of the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Good one, Don.
Boy, that Liz Cheney sure knows how to give her critics lines to work with.
Don’t have much respect for our political “leaders” today. Most are afraid of saying Homo sapiens is a binary species. That says it all.
“Gave her the heave ho”. Brilliant!
Obviously she has found her way back like a boomerang. Her only motivation to get out of bed is probably her hatred for Trump. She needs to look up the word “nepotism” in the dictionary. Right after she looks up the word “mediocre”.
It’s indicative of what a propaganda operation NBC is that 10% of their broadcast the other night was devoted to an interview with this woman. Receiving 29% of the ballots in a Republican primary in Wyoming hasn’t educated her at all.
I don’t think Cheney is an idiot in the psychometrician’s sense, but if she isn’t a fraud she lives so completely in the nomenklatura bubble that she hasn’t a clue about social and political conditions in this country.
One odd thing about the Cheney story is that the voters of Wyoming accepted her in the first place. Her initial foray into Wyoming politics was an abortive campaign to eject the late Mike Enzi. Enzi’s just the sort of person you want in Congress. He spent most of his adult life in small business and limited his political involvement to part time positions until he was elected to Congress at the age of 52. His Wyoming residence was actual, not pro forma, and when he completed his last term he returned to his home town. Liz Cheney saw him as someone in her way.
She and her husband bought a vacation property in Teton County in 2012. Her parents own another such property in the same village. Teton County is the only county in the state which votes Democratic and it contains a contextually large quantity of Aspen types who have a 2d home there. She, her husband, and their oldest daughter register to vote there. Her husband is a BigLaw partner in a firm with a ‘government relations’ practice and he’s circulated in and out of government for decades. She herself has spent 3/4 of her life as a resident of greater Washington. Close to 80% of the people who live in and around Washington are analogues of the same sort of people you find in any commuter belt, with the qualification that there’s little manufacturing around Washington so few factory workers. About 20% are federal employees, retired federal employees, and their dependents, a segment of the population which accounts for about 2% of the population in a typical locale (where proportionately fewer federal employees are professional-managerial types). Cheney and her husband are drawn from the 2% or so who you’d call ‘political Washington’, and unlike the congressional aide in our social circle (who worked crazy hours and lived in a modest surburban condo in Silver Spring), she and her husband are wealthy and influential. These are the people making America worse.
She needs to look up the word “nepotism” in the dictionary. Right after she looks up the word “mediocre”.
She’s stayed married and has five kids. You cannot take that away from her. I don’t think she’s practiced law in quite some time. The problem there is her husband’s career is an example of how you can grow wealthy off the detritus of the administrative state and institutionalized corruption. The legal profession is a stew of rent-seeking and inefficiency generally, but only an odd minority of lawyers generate revenue from getting politicians to do favors for corporations and wealthy clients. Also, the median annual cash compensation for lawyers is only about 3% higher than that for pharmacists, but with 10x the aggravation and anxiety. Phillip Perry is not a rank-and-file lawyer.
The Cheneys had a brand in Wyoming until she wrecked it. No clue why. Her parents left Wyoming in 1965 and have been only notional residents since, bar perhaps during 1977 and 1978. She and her sister received their high school diplomas from a school in Northern Virginia. Her paternal grandfather was a USDA employee stationed in Omaha who was transferred to Casper ca. 1955, when her father was 14. Neither her father nor his siblings settled in Wyoming as adults. The last of her grandparents died in 1999. The only relations she has in Wyoming are her maternal uncle in Casper and the man’s daughter, who lives in Cody with her family. I’m wondering if she put her kids in her TV ads because her uncle and her cousin told her to buzz off.
Well, she’s not wrong … But I suspect what she means is: we’re electing the wrong idiots.
With a Department of Education abandoning the goal of education (if they ever had it in the first place) in favor of indoctrination, coupled with the extreme polarization of our society, we increasingly cast our votes “for our candidate” or “against their candidate” without much thought.
This particular idiot was rejected because it became clear to her constituency that she had stopped being our candidate and become very much their candidate. That she doesn’t get that makes Liz Cheney an extraordinary idiot.
“she and her husband are wealthy and influential. These are the people making America worse.”
And she doesn’t understand this very truth. If you took away her surname, I don’t think the woman has much appeal in her professional life and the media wouldn’t be listening to her.
“She’s stayed married and has five kids. You cannot take that away from her.”
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A bit like Nancy Pelosi.
A bit like Nancy Pelosi.
I wouldn’t take it away from Pelosi, either. However, Pelosi has been for more than four decades pure politician and has never in her life critiqued the dominant strand of thought in the Bay Area Democratic Party, her upbringing notwithstanding. Cheney is inadequate for a dozen different reasons, but she’s never been the promoter of social and economic pathology in the manner of Pelosi.