Liz cheney

The Cheney administration in exile

Gabriel Winant — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:40:00 PDT

After an administration ends and the other party takes over, key members often find an institutional home from which to continue their arguments. In 2003, for example, veterans of the Clinton administration founded the Center for American Progress, to provide research and talking-points for center-left policies.

Liz Cheney: U.S. needs commander, not community organizer

Alex Koppelman — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:15:00 PDT

Red State, a big conservative blog on the model of Daily Kos, had its first big bloggers' gathering this past weekend. They even had some fairly big names in the world of Republican politics come speak -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., and Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., among others -- but they needed a headliner, someone whose name alone would be a draw.

Debating the Birthers

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:24:00 PDT

During her appearance on "Hardball," Salon's Joan Walsh responded to Liz Cheney's defense of the Birthers. (Via Crooks and Liars)

Liz Cheney: "My dad would rather be fishing in Wyoming"

Alex Koppelman — Tue, 12 May 2009 08:35:00 PDT

Liz Cheney, the daughter of the former vice president and a Bush administration official herself, was on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Tuesday morning for what turned into an interesting discussion on her father's recent foray into the spotlight and on torture.

The press's warped priorities

Joe Conason — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 03:41:00 PST

Did you hear that Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter is having a baby? Of course you did -- and so did everyone else -- because over the past two months, the controversial pregnancy of Mary Cheney has been noted and debated on every almost every significant news outlet in America.

Emerald City exposed

Sidney Blumenthal — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 04:08:00 PDT

On the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush delivered the culmination of yet another series of speeches on Iraq and the war on terror. For more than a year, he has periodically given speeches on military bases and before specially invited audiences who applauded his carefully crafted phrases, slightly altered on each occasion, as though these scenes represented widespread public support for his policies. But this Sept. 11 was different from the other anniversaries, partly because of the passage of half a decade but mostly because of what Bush has done with the years.