Liz Cheney Makes Her Daddy Proud

While blogging on the topic of yesterday's Cheney Obama speeches this morning, I was treated to a debate on the issue of enhanced interrogation techniques and the on going debate, on Good Morning America. It was a debate between the daughter of former vice president Dick Cheney and the former West Wing writer and MSNBC political analyst Lawrence O'Donnell.

And it was a debate which proved to be an interesting mix of realities to say the least. None the less, Liz Cheney not only did her father proud in defense of the Bush administration policies of national security, but she also dissected and laid bare the contrived attacks that O'Donnell foisted as his best examples of defense for liberal democrat opposition to enhanced interrogation techniques.

O'Donnell's seeming big stick in the argument (and it was an argument) was to assert that the Bush administration had released over 500 individuals form Guantanamo 75 of which who had returned to terrorist activities and none of which had been water boarded by the Bush administration.

O'Donnell's assertions were basically, that if water boarding was such an effective technique, then why had the Bush administration not water boarded these 500. And was this not an example of George Bush's failed policies and failure to keep America safe, as at least 75 of these individuals went on to rejoin terrorist activities in the middle east.

The points of which when examined for logic and reasoning, immediately serve to both clearly demonstrate and clarify the idiocy of liberal perspective when it comes to protecting this country and employing practices that provide safety to all Americans. Not to mention there methodologies for defending their positions.

To her credit, Liz Cheney rose to the baiting and immediately destroyed O'Donell's argument by pointing out that this was precisely what the administration had both claimed and demonstrated repeatedly. Specifically, that water boarding and other enhanced interrogation techniques were used in very limited instances and employed only against very specific targets of inquiry. She then added that of course, O'Donnell and those of similar mindset, would now attempt to assert that every person taken into custody, should have been interrogated in such a fashion and that the failure to do so was a failure of responsibility on the part of the Bush administration. But she also pointed out the idiocy of such a proposition and that Larry O'Donnell knew that.


And the twisting of liberal perspective continued....

O'Donnell continued with his attempts to vilify the Bush administration, by further attempting to muddy the water of the debate. He did that by asserting that while Dick Cheney decried the release of CIA memos outlining the techniques of interrogation used by the Bush administration, as making America less safe, the former vice president then in turn wanted the administration to release more memos and thus potentially make America less safe by his own definition. O'Donnell attempted then to qualify this comparison of analogy as a demonstration of illogic on the part of former vice president Cheney.

And once again Liz Cheney rose to the challenge and unfolded O'Donell's neatly folded parsing and attempts to contrive reality in the enhanced and skewed liberal perspective and she revealed the tactic for precisely what it was. Pointing out that what her father was seeking? Was nothing more than the complete picture of what had taken place and why. Particularly since the Obama administration had already caused damage. Pointing out that the Obama administration was more than prepared to reveal the techniques involved in obtaining the information to the American people for political gain and thus jeopardizing our future safety, yet he had purposely shied away from disclosing the known and provable results of those interrogations. The obvious reasoning being that those documents more than proved the viability and necessity for such techniques and therefore, would not serve to further the president's argument.

In the vernacular of the present generation, Liz Cheney owned Larry O'Donnell in this staged debate for morning television on probably one of the most liberal networks in America. And she did it with commons sense and reasoned logic and she did it in the face of a red faced Larry O'Donnell who continually interrupted and attempted to shout her down and over talk her. Which is the favored tactic of liberal attack artists when they are losing, which is frequently.

I look forward to this debate being published on YouTube so that it can be posted and more Americans made aware of the tactics and the players involved in the disservice and potential long term danger to this nation.

The irony of watching this debate this morning? Was that it struck me that the favored opposition for attempting to once again vilify George Bush and Dick Cheney in this instance, was a Hollywood writer whose claim to fame was his television series creation the West Wing. Perhaps this man and those who find him politically relevant, believe that America would have been better served with Martin Sheen playing president and Larry O'Donnell writing his daily scrips for him.

Such are the realities of the fantasy world that many liberals such as Lawrence O'Donnell live in. And the sad part of the fact is, that they have absolutely no compunction juxtaposing fantasy with reality and then attempting to claim moral superiority as if their dream worlds are reality.