The Cheney family is pissing people off in Wyoming. The reason is simple. They are quite obviously coveting Mike Enzi’s seat in the U.S. Senate. Dick Cheney’s daughter, Liz, is making no secret about her desire to serve in the Senate, and Dick is promoting her. But Senator Enzi doesn’t intend to retire.
Liz Cheney did not grow up in Wyoming. She only recently bought some property in the Jackson Hole area. And Mike Enzi is a very conservative member of the Senate who has done very little to invite a primary challenge from his right.
Personally, I think that Sen. Enzi is one of very few Republican senators who actually understand how the Senate is supposed to function in our system of government. He is capable of actual legislating, rather than 100% obstruction. Maybe it will be this feature of his personality that will doom him.
I don’t know Wyoming politics very well, but I suspect that Enzi will be able to defeat a challenge from the Cheney family. I don’t think Dick Cheney has a lot of juice, even in his home state.
It’s not just that Liz has no history in Wyoming until her recent property purchase. Jackson Hole has almost nothing in common with the rest of Wyoming. It’s like someone buying property in Aspen and claiming to represent Colorado, or (to use an East Coast example) buying waterfront property in Nantucket so that you can stand up for the working people of Boston. It’s a playground for the rich, and the rest of the state knows it and resents it.
And it’s been a long, long time since anyone named Cheney won a statewide election in Wyoming – 1986, to be exact, the last time Dick ran for the House. Most of his career has been in the Executive Branch. Even the Bushes are better connected to Texas than the Cheney family is to Wyoming.
The most disgusting family in America. No shock that they practice nepotism.
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The Bush’s, too.
The Cheney family missed its calling – they should have moved down to South or Central America, and run a 3rd World Country, instead of doing their damnedest to turn the USA into one.
Not enough bad sh*t can happen to them.
And not enough, ever will.
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What does Liz know about Wyoming, she seems to talk mainly about the national Republican issues. The story about the Cheneys pissing off Wyomings has been around for many months, even before the 2012 elections.
“I don’t think Dick Cheney has a lot of juice, even in his home state.”
Cheney’s ‘home state’ is Hel, and he does have a lot of ‘juice’ there. Wyoming, not so much.
I think I speak for many in wishing that Cheney would go home, and stay there.
Alan Simpson’s comments the most insightful. Perhaps Ms Cheney has let her arrogance overestimate her role in a state that embraces tradition, loyalty and its own. She is an outsider who’s ‘all hat’ but no cow sense.
poor Liz. The girl will never be satisfied. Her whole life is a constant effort to “prove Daddy loves me more”.
The fact that she thinks the world cares is amusing.
Dear Sen Enzi: Do not go on a fishing trip with Dick.
You’re welcome!
Kind of amazing Enzi classifies Mr Fourth Branch as a friend – do the undead have friends?
Not an issue of “less Cheney.” Wyoming Republicans are just fine with the Cheneys. Or that Lizzie is viewed as a carpetbagger which strictly speaking, she’s not. (See Hillary Clinton 2000 for the definition.)
Her problem is that all the Wyoming federal offices are occupied and the delegation is already 100% GOP. Her options are: 1) pray for an unexpected opening 2) start lower down on the political office food chain 3) forget about it.
a shot to someone’s face
The population of Wyoming is 576,412 people- and they get two senators same as California with 37,253,956 people. That’s democracy for you.
Surely the US doesn’t need one Senator from Wyoming to be a Cheney GOP!
Liz Cheney did not grow up in Wyoming. She only recently bought some property in the Jackson Hole area.
Same relationship that John McCain had with AZ when he first ran for Senator there.