5/17/21 Liz Cheney: Is She Salome, Boudicca or Joan of Arc?

Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) has gone to war against Trumpist liars.

On the Sunday morning talk shows, Cheney said that only a small number of her GOP colleagues actually believe the election was stolen from Trump, but they're mum because they're scared.

“We now live in a country where members’ votes are affected because they’re worried about their security, they’re worried about threats on their lives,” she said. That is, some yahoo could take a shot at them and/or their families or staff.

Legislative backbones are fully dissolved, I'm guessing, since that video of Marjorie Taylor Greene was resurrected -- the one where she's hectoring Alexandria Ocasio-Ortiz through an office mail flap.

And the apologists turning January 6 into a picnic? "The notion that this was somehow a tourist event is disgraceful and despicable," Cheney said in a pre-recorded interview on ABC's "This Week With George Stephanopoulos." She was speaking of House member Andrew Clyde of Georgia, who had made that claim.

"And, you know, I won't be part of whitewashing what happened on Jan. 6. Nobody should be part of it. And people ought to be held accountable," she said, calling out House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), her replacement in leadership, for lying for Trump.

The talking heads' wisdom this morning included guessing whether Cheney should run for president. It's a way to keep her assault on the crapmeisters alive and on the front page, for sure. One interviewer mentioned that Cheney's former vice-president Dad, Dick ("Darth-Vader") Cheney, thought she should run. Cheney didn't answer that question.

She did say, however, that "I will do everything that I can to make sure [Trump's] not the nominee [during the next Presidential election] and, you know, everything necessary to make sure that he never gets anywhere close to the Oval Office again." Now, that is a woman I can get behind, Republican or not.

Problem is, Cheney is throwing her hat into a specialized ring: Women who lead the charge. It does not always go well for them.

Is she like Salome, trying to get some well-connected man to put Trump's head on a platter? (Indulge me here.) Not likely. She's driving the charge herself.

Is she like Boudicca, that revolutionary Celt who drove Rome out most of England? Cheney wants to lead principled Republicans to push out Trumpists, the way Boudicca's swarm of followers pushed Rome out of England for a while. Unfortunately, Boudicca lost most of her tens of thousands of followers to Roman battle tactics on a single day.

Or is Cheney like Joan of Arc, who'll win her war with the help of Democrats only to be burned at the stake after she wins?

Or is she going to be a rare bird, a woman who succeeds spectacularly in American public office?

This is going to be really interesting! As long as Trump is vanquished, that is.
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