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If Liz Cheney Wants It This Way…

By | 02.19.10 | 10:17 am

First she exposes her ignorance on interrogations at CPAC. Now this:

“There is no polite way to put this: Obama’s incompetence is getting people killed.”

Liz Cheney Loves Torture, Doesn’t Understand Interrogation

By | 02.18.10 | 4:48 pm

Over at CPAC, TPM’s Christina Bellantoni caught up with Liz Cheney and elicited this response to a question about the recent capture of Taliban deputy commander Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar:

I worry though when we capture these leaders that we no longer have the option of using any of

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Bush Campaign Veterans Make Electoral Comeback

By | 11.24.09 | 6:00 am

For a candidate making his first bid for office, Tim Griffin couldn’t be in better shape. One week after announcing his campaign against Rep. Vic Snyder (D-Ark.), the incumbent in Arkansas’s most Democratic-leaning district, Griffin had raised $130,000. A Public Policy Polling survey More…

9/11 Families Group Supports Trying Conspirators in New York

By | 11.16.09 | 10:59 am

This comes from September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, a survivors’ group that has urged the Obama administration to shut down Guantanamo Bay:

We, the members of September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, support the Attorney General’s decision to bring the trials of the five individuals currently accused of

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NY-23: Newt Gingrich for Scozzafava

By | 10.16.09 | 10:25 am

The former Speaker of the House bucks the tide somewhat and endorses the GOP candidate in New York’s special election. The statement comes with typical Gingrichian hyberbole:

The Republican Revolution in 1994 started very much like what we see today. Like then, our country is reeling from misguided liberal

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Liz Cheney and Bill Kristol Start ‘Keep America Safe’

By | 10.13.09 | 9:27 am

Ben Smith has the scoop on Keep America Safe, a new pressure group headed up by former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Liz Cheney. Cheney’s partners are Debra Burlingame and Bill Kristol — whose other new venture, the Foreign Policy Initiative, is only seven More…

But What Does Liz Cheney Think?

By | 09.04.09 | 11:27 am

From Politico’s strangely timed survey of a seemingly random sample of Republican worthies on their 2012 presidential hopes:

Liz Cheney, a State Department official in the Bush administration, said it is “absolutely” possible for a Republican to win the presidency in 2012. “The independents who were so critical will

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Liz Cheney Explains How Obama Ruined America

By | 08.03.09 | 10:54 am

Liz Cheney, the most prominent Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State For Near Eastern Affairs in American history, spoke at this weekend’s RedState Gathering in Atlanta on the subject of President Obama’s failed foreign policy. The audience of conservative bloggers got serving after serving of red meat, with plenty of More…

Liz Cheney Sympathizes With the Birthers

By | 07.22.09 | 9:48 am

Joan Walsh saw this last night: Liz Cheney, the most famous former principal deputy assistant secretary of state for near eastern affairs in American history, appeared on Larry King’s CNN show and fielded a question about the Obama birth certificate conspiracies.

Her first response, after being shown a video More…

Liz Cheney for Congress

By | 05.22.09 | 12:11 pm

Paul Bedard talks with conservatives who are positively twitterpated with Liz Cheney and want her to launch a political career.

“She could start with a major speech on national security,” said one [anonymous supporter]. “Heritage [the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank] could have her in for a

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