GIVE NO
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HUFFINGTON
01.19.14
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Liz, despite her own personal interests, has spent
much of her career in the Dick Cheney business.
vention. Liz’s slashing style made
it impossible to do any of that
gracefully. Aiming to displace the
congenial Enzi by displaying unrivaled disdain for the president,
she was erratic about just which
direction the criticisms should
come from. In standard neocon
form, Cable Cheney had demanded Obama launch military intervention in Syria. Running as a
2014 populist, Candidate Cheney
opposed authorizing strikes there.
Cable Cheney praised NSA spying
to Sean Hannity in June. Candidate Cheney criticized it to the
Casper Star-Tribune months later.
Likewise, Cheney the tea partier
vowed to be zealous about spending, explaining how ideologues in
the bureaucracy protect discredited
pet projects. But in the Bush years,
she had overseen a textbook example of pricy idealism: a $400 million, largely unsuccessful effort to
Liz Cheney
(left) joined
then-Vice
President
Cheney and
her mother
on a 10-day
trip to the
Middle East
in 2008.