I’m writing this on the night of January 6th instead of getting up early because my head is really bothering me these last few days. We’ve got a house full of sickness and I’m the well one despite the concussion. I’m ready for the weekend. I’m going to sleep late tomorrow. Thank the Lord my show is now 12 to 3 instead of 9 to noon.
I just want to say this.
Dick Cheney is one of the greatest Americans I have ever met. I adore the man and anyone who is a conservative has long adored the man. I remember when he was in the Bush White House and the conservatives would go to him to navigate scuttling big government ideas in the Bush Administration.
Dick Cheney is an American hero. If you suddenly find yourself no longer liking Dick Cheney, the issue is you, not him. He hasn’t lost the principles you probably have.
Also, I very much like Liz Cheney, even if we might disagree on politics and I think she might should navigate some things related to Trump differently. But I admire her for having the courage of her convictions when so many around her agreed with her on January 6th then got wobbly.
It is refreshing to have a politician lose on a principled stand than cave to a crowd of loud voices out of fear whether I agree with them or not.
But, back to Dick Cheney. If you have a problem with the former Vice President showing up in defense of the institution of Congress after all he has done for this country, you are a broken soul.
Also, shame on the current Vice President.
Unless Kamala Harris can show us videos of people jumping to their deaths from the Capitol Dome to escape the mob, she needs to shut the hell up instead of comparing January 6th to September 11th. What a ridiculous and shameful thing to say. But I’m sure she doesn’t care, which makes it even worse.
I appreciated your comments on Harris’s absurd comparisons of Jan. 6 to Pearl Harbor, 9/11, and of whoever it was that compared it to the Holocaust. My father and his brother were at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Dad’s barracks were bombed. His brother was in the Navy but was one of the lucky survivors. My sister-in-law’s mother, aunt, and grandmother were Holocaust survivors. Her grandfather was murdered at Auschwitz. I cannot find words to describe my utter disgust. If I had lost someone on 9/11, or if I were a survivor of that horror I would be outraged. As a friend said, these political creatures have no regard for history which is probably they have no problem rewriting it.
Sorry about the health issues at home Erick. Praying for all to recover.
I have to part ways with you on the issue of Dick Cheney. He and Bush did more damage to the Republican Party of anyone since Nixon. Aloof Establishment neoCons who started a costly and unnecessary war in Iraq. Shame on them for the biggest foreign policy blunder of my lifetime. And we are still paying the price. One of the consequences is the ongoing destabilization of the region with Saddam gone--thus giving Iran unchecked power to intimidate it's neighbors and develop nukes. Warmongers if you ask me.
A real journalist like Glenn Greenwald knows all about the true costs of that debacle.