After Consulting Doctor Google, Professor Bing and Adjunct Faculty Yahoo...

...I have found a remarkable thing.

During a public career spent clawing her way to the top of the GOP dungheap by relentlessly lying about people like me (then abruptly tumbling down from the commanding heights of that same dungheap when she crossed the Dear Leader) Liz Cheney has only ever apologized for anything twice.  

You will recall that Liz Cheney was so horny for a U.S. senate seat back in 2013 ... 

 

... that to appease atavistic Republican voters of Wyoming, she threw her own sister under the bus without batting an eye.  

From The Los Angeles Times, November 18, 2013:

Liz Cheney sells out gay sister for shot at U.S. Senate seat

What kind of woman sells out her sister for a shot at a U.S. Senate seat?

How do you tell your sister how happy you are she is marrying her longtime girlfriend, embrace her wife as a member of the family, their children as your niece and nephew, then turn around and tell the nation you oppose gay marriage?

For this alone, Liz Cheney, who is running for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination in Wyoming against a longtime conservative incumbent, deserves to lose.

Though the Cheney daughters have been sparring in public for months about gay marriage, their disagreement heated up again Sunday when Liz appeared on “Fox News Sunday” and noted, again, that despite what her opponent claims, she opposes gay marriage.

This did not sit well with her sister-in-law, Heather Poe, who took to Facebook to protest:  “I was watching my sister-in-law on Fox News Sunday (yes Liz, in fifteen states and the District of Columbia you are my sister-in-law) and was very disappointed to hear her say “I do believe in the traditional definition of marriage.

“Liz has been a guest in our home, has spent time and shared holidays with our children, and when Mary and I got married in 2012 - she didn’t hesitate to tell us how happy she was for us.

“To have her now say she doesn’t support our right to marry is offensive to say the least.

“I can’t help but wonder how Liz would feel if as she moved from state to state, she discovered that her family was protected in one but not the other.

“I always thought freedom meant freedom for EVERYONE.”

A short time later, Mary Cheney re-posted Poe’s note on her own Facebook page, adding: “Couldn’t have said it better myself. Liz--this isn’t just an issue on which we disagree--you’re just wrong--and on the wrong side of history.”

Liz Cheney, a 47-year-old heterosexual mother of five, trying to thread the needle on gay rights has instead stabbed her sister.

You will also recall that Cheney went on to win Wyoming's sole House seat in 2016, where she quickly ascended to the upper ranks of Republican leadership.  

But five years later, having been run out of GOP leadership for objecting to Trump's insurrection and headed for an historic defeat at the hands of Cheney family friend Harriet Hageman, Cheney's only hope was to go scrounging for Democratic votes.  That was when she suddenly flipped and, through gritted teeth, threw this last-minute, Hail (Gay) Marry pass.

The Christian Post:

Liz Cheney apologizes for previous opposition to same-sex marriage: 'I was wrong'

Outspoken Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., has apologized for her previous opposition to same-sex marriage as she continues to fight for her political career.

The 55-year-old lawmaker apologized for her previous opposition to gay marriage in an interview with CBS' Lesley Stahl, which aired on "60 Minutes" Saturday.

Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney and sister of the openly lesbian Mary Cheney, was pressed by Stahl about her "long-held opposition to same-sex marriage."

Noting that her opposition to same-sex marriage "prompted a bitter falling out with her sister, Mary," who is in a same-sex marriage with children, Stahl asked Cheney, "how do you defend what you did?" Cheney responded by apologizing: "I was wrong."

"I was wrong. I love my sister very much. I love her family very much ... and I was wrong," she said."It's a very personal issue, very personal for my family."

For the record, the only other time history records Cheney ever shaping her mouth to say the word "apologize" was when she apologized for the despicable behavior of her loathsome Republican colleagues when they accused General Mark Milley, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, of 'dereliction of duty' and asked him to resign during a hearing on Afghanistan.

That's it.

That's all.  

No apologies for all her lies and slander.  No regrets about all her energetic work building the Republican monster machine that eventually spit her out.  Nothing recanted or even acknowledged.  Which is very much the way of all Republicans, especially the Cheney clan, the patriarch of which swore he never had the slightest doubt about his most comprehensive catastrophe.  

Time magazine, June 25, 2014:

Dick Cheney Says Iraq War Was 'the Right Thing'

Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Tuesday stood by the Bush Administration’s decision to wage war in Iraq, saying he has never second-guessed the decision even with Iraq once again descending into chaos.

“I was a strong advocate of going into Iraq,” Cheney told PBS in an interview, a week after launching a new political group designed to boost his foreign policy and national-security policies. “I think that was the right decision then, and I still believe that today.”

We teach our children early on that when you've done wrong -- when you've hurt someone -- you own what you did and say you're sorry.  This isn't just a fundamental of good parenting, it's a pillar of every major religion.

And yet when GOP finally dropped the veil and bared its full fascist fangs at the world, and a handful of their elite comms people, magazine editors, pundits and elected officials -- who had spent decades advancing their careers by shitting on us and lying about us -- came knocking on our door asking for sanctuary, all we asked of them was this basic thing that they should have learned as children or at temple or at church: acknowledge your part in what has happened and apologize to the people that you hurt for what you did.

And yet the reaction from them and their sponsors and benefactors in the "liberal" media was as if we were demanding that Satan take a holy water enema to get his next book deal or a regular gig on MSNOW    How dare we ask such a thing!   Who the fuck were we to even presume to ask such a thing?!?!

Outrageous!  

Scandalous!  

Preposterous!  

Fools!  Shut up and sit down!  Didn't we realize that democracy itself was at stake!  

These were the insults and charges they threw in the faces of Liberals who had already been warning about the threat the GOP posed to democracy for decades.  Warning about it since back in the days when they were making attack ads for Saxby Chambliss, slandering triple-amputee Vietnam veteran Max Cleland by linking him to Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, or proudly standing in front of an American flag and, from their official position in Republican party leadership, calling us baby murdering scum.

This is why there's a big ol' sign "No Fair Remembering Stuff" sign nailed up over the past. 

Because in our present circumstances there is nothing more subversive and disruptive than accurately remembering and contextualizing the past.

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