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4:50Now PlayingRepublican Representative Liz Cheney says that her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, is troubled by the current state of the Republican Party, believing that it has gotten too extreme and prone to conspiracies. He isn't completely wrong, but he's omitting the part where he helped put his Party on this path. With his administration's endless lies about foreign threats, he helped launch an unwinnable and seemingly neverending war in the Middle East, far worse than a few conspiracies about an election. Farron Cousins discusses this.
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During a Q and a session with the Aspen Institute last week, Republican lawmaker, Liz Cheney said that her father, Dick Cheney, former vice president of the United States during the Bush administration Is worried, is worried about the country. He's worried About the direction of the Republican party. He's worried. She says about the damage that Donald Trump caused To this country. He's not happy With the direction the country's going and thanks to trunky Trump. He's not happy with the direction the Republican party
Is going in. And to that,
I have to say, BU frickin, whom Mr. Warmonger, maybe you shouldn't have helped put America on this path. I'm not going to take Dick Cheney side on anything here.
He's right. I will say
That the Republican party's going on a dangerous path, but that is the only area where he and I actually agree because see, he omits the fact and we've pointed this out plenty of times in the past that he helped get us here and you want to go even further back. Obviously you've got to talk about Nixon Reagan. This has been a long slow March for the Republican party. Trump just basically picked it up from a slow March to a jog down the wrong path. But Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, the whole gaggle of idiots from that Bush administration that helped push us into these seemingly endless and definitely unwinnable wars in the middle east that resulted in thousands upon thousands of American soldiers coming back and flag draped coffins. Yeah, I'd say that played a pretty big role of putting us on this path. And do you know why?
Because you put the era of fact free politics on steroids. It's you pushed baseless lies about the
Iraqi government, having weapons of mass destruction.
You let Osama
Bin Laden slipped through your fingers
For eight years,
Unable to do anything because you didn't really care. And Bush himself said, I don't spend a lot of time thinking about Ben Lon.
Yeah. We know what you were after you were after all that sweet, sweet oil in Iraq, and you
Would do anything to get you dirty, grubby little friend shooting hands
On it. And that's what happened. But your lies,
The misinformation that your administration sold to the public
Showed the entire country that it's
Okay for politicians to lie to get what they want. Now don't get me wrong. Politicians have always will
Always lie.
But we saw during the Bush administration from people like Dick Cheney was different. Those were lies, not just a lie to win an election, not just a, I never had relations with that woman. No, not lies of personal interest lies that killed people. Competence during things like hurricane Katrina that killed people. You put us on this path, Dick Cheney. So don't, you dare open your mouth about all. What have the Republicans become? They've become what you push them towards what your daughter, Liz Cheney has pushed them towards. I mean, how I know Liz likes to talk a big game about being an anti-Trump Republican, but she voted with him and her fellow Republicans. You know what? 90% of the time, I think it was maybe more voted against the stimulus package earlier this year, along with all of the other Republicans in the federal government right now, every one of them there's no good ones. Folks. There's just some that are less
Bad, but Dick Cheney's
Not one of those less bad people do not let him rewrite his history. Do not embrace him as a fellow comrade in the resistance because he ain't it yet.
He is a scumbag, a warmongering scumbag and may
History forever. Remember him as such.
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