Liz Cheney, the Captain Ahab
of the House
American Thinker,
by
Patricia McCarthy
Original Article
Posted By: Magnante,
5/14/2021 3:57:09 AM
Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick is one the finest books ever written for many reasons, but the main theme is obsession. The captain of the whale ship Pequod is obsessed with hunting down and killing the white whale, the giant mammal that cost the captain his leg. Despite his having lost the last battle with the whale, Ahab is filled with a terrible resolve that is frustrated by his megalomania, his hubris and overconfidence. (snip) Doesn’t that character description sound exactly like Liz Cheney, just-ousted from her House GOP Caucus leadership slot? She is obsessed, overconfident and hubristic to the point of insanity.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
jalo1951 5/14/2021 5:05:12 AM (No. 785065)
This is the perfect analogy. She is obsessed.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
5 handicap 5/14/2021 6:20:48 AM (No. 785087)
Could be insanity...more likely it's the same criminality exhibited by her mentor and father the Dick of Cheneys.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
seamusm 5/14/2021 6:23:35 AM (No. 785088)
And hopefully she'll see the same end - drowning while held fast by the ropes of her own accusations.
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More to the point of reason; My belief is that the Liberal mind is one cannot reason things out, but it even refuses to try to reason.
And this is a greater problem than anything because in my mind we/they, our children, are NOT being taught to reason.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Kitty Myers 5/14/2021 6:46:13 AM (No. 785094)
Liz Cheney gives menopause a bad rap.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Rinktum 5/14/2021 6:53:27 AM (No. 785098)
What a terrible arc her political life has taken. At one time I respected Liz and what she had to say. Now, she has gone off the deep end in a spectacular fashion. A reasonable person would be able to sit down and look at the achievements of the Trump administration and agree that through his leadership the country was doing well. The world was not in the chaos of war that we see today, the economy was humming along at a record breaking pace, and there was optimism and hope in this country. All verifiable by facts and data. She may not like President Trump’s personality, but that is no reason for her virulent rhetoric. She is the one spewing lies on subjects that can be easily be refuted. Why would anyone behave this way? Liz has lost her marbles. No sane person acts this way. She is going down the Adam Schiff road of throwing out outrageous statements he knows are false yet that does not stop him. When people deny truth, they have lost their grip on reality and are trapped in a world of delusions.
If you have ever been around someone going through a nasty divorce, reason is alien to those who are caught up in such a storm of hate. It makes some people act like they are temporarily insane. All they can focus is on is getting the better of the object of their hate. It is vicious and self-destructive and almost impossible to stop. Liz Cheney reminds me of someone going through this trauma. She is unreasonable, unmoving even if it is in her best interests, and most of all so filled with anger she cannot stop herself from being verbally abusive. It’s a sad state of affairs when this happen in private but when you play a scenario like that out on the public stage, you have lost all sense of dignity and self-respect. Liz is going to ride this out until the bitter end. She needs her parents to intervene. She is an embarrassment to herself.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Krause 5/14/2021 6:55:20 AM (No. 785100)
I used to like Dick Cheney.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
judy 5/14/2021 7:10:47 AM (No. 785107)
The fake media & dems are giving Liz a big ego. ...just like W.Bush, Romney, Flake, Pence, Krystol. The few number of fake republicans has the media as their megaphone.
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Wretched little mouse.
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Strange that Lizzie doesn't have anything to say about Biden's destructive governing. She used to be somewhat conservative and should be outraged.
There is clearly something going on behind the scenes with so many of these politicians and judges. Malevolent forces are at work.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
udanja99 5/14/2021 7:32:58 AM (No. 785125)
Her sister Mary is a lesbian married to a woman. Anyone with a lick of reason and honesty knows that homosexuality is a mental disorder. Perhaps mental illness runs in the family.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna 5/14/2021 8:03:34 AM (No. 785150)
Liz was interviewed, very gently, by Bret Bair on Fox.
Yet she was ridged and angry, uncooperative and recalcitrant. Bret gave her dozens of opportunities to be reasonable but she couldn't get past her derangement syndrome.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
laurenc 5/14/2021 8:07:06 AM (No. 785154)
She kinda reminds me of the whale...
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Kafka2 5/14/2021 8:09:48 AM (No. 785155)
Liz Cheney was interviewed on Special Report (FOX) last night. Her irrational hatred of President Trump that mirrored that of the obsession captain Ahab had for the white whale in Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick was on full display. She claimed all the good that President Trump did didn't matter because he lied about having the election stolen and incited a riot at the Capitol.
She cannot prove either of here accusations. Because of last minute changes to voting procedures, the integrity of a great many of the votes counted is in doubt. Thus, neither Trump nor Cheney has proof of their position. As to the riot the FBI had internet communications of dissident group planning the riot going back several days before President Trump gave his speech and nowhere in his speech did he tell anybody to riot.
When asked if she had considered the possibility that here pursuit of Trump would sink any chance of the Republicans regaining power in the 2022 elections, she claimed that removing Trump from politics as a based on principle. All the good he did in office didn't matter because he lied. This is rich. If all the politicians that lied were turned out of office, there would be very few left in either the Capitol and White House. And, all the attempts to impeach President Trump, which Cheney supported were based on lies. Some display of principle!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Jebediah 5/14/2021 8:16:42 AM (No. 785168)
Agree that Liz Chaney can think anything she wants, and say it, but NOT as head of a committee that she represents and that largely disagrees with her. Saw the interview on Special Report last night and she truly seems obsessed----and a steamroller in the interview.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
LLAMA 5/14/2021 8:30:12 AM (No. 785181)
Cheny is beginning to look and sound a lot like Pelosi, as she is breathlessly clutches her pearls and spews her deranged bile to all who will listen. Bret Baier was foolish to give her "air time" on FNC to further propagate her absurd and hysterical rantings. She is the true exempflication of the of the old phrase "...it became necessary to destroy the village in order to save it." I hope the voters of Wyoming will rid us of the pestilence, and hope that the media will give her the total lack of attention that she deserves.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 5/14/2021 8:40:18 AM (No. 785195)
Liz Moby is a bit touched in the head. The 'Trump hater' has gone around the bend when Washington and the world is ablaze and she is blinded with one obsession 'get Trump'. If Liz Moby really believes what she espouses then she is dumb, stupid, idiotic looking while beating a dead horse. Ms. Moby talks of rebuilding the republicans without Trump without realizing she is canceling all the supporters who are voters. If a group of 100 RINOs put Ms. Moby up to this scam she took the bait and is going to fail miserably.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 5/14/2021 8:46:32 AM (No. 785205)
All I know is that Liz drank the cool aid and bought into the Russia collusion hoax, supported impeachment, and turned her back on the Great Election Fraud of 2020.
She's just following the new world order and its obsession with power? Interesting analogy that #6 presents.
Her folks and her spouse need to sit her down and talk some sense into her. If that is even possible at this stage. There's a more deep-seated reason for the rage and Trump just happens to be her target. But, she has chosen poorly. Previously, I thought she had a lot of potential.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
MickTurn 5/14/2021 8:52:43 AM (No. 785217)
May she go down with the DNC Whale!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/14/2021 8:57:29 AM (No. 785226)
TDS has ruined the careers of many other sometimes-sensible politicians and some not so sensible. The fact that Donald Trump came to town and soundly beat the career types at their own game could not be swallowed and it choked them.
When Dick Cheney was VP, he gave GWB much advice on military matters - while making billions of dollars for Halliburton and KBR. Money like that can influence many decisions so he was never pure. His daughter does not measure up either.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
weirdone 5/14/2021 8:57:31 AM (No. 785227)
More of a Quisling than an Ahab.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
starboard 5/14/2021 8:57:47 AM (No. 785228)
Liz Cheney showed the world her inability to be smart. Everything she said and did was an unforced error. It was amazed how stupidly she acted.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 5/14/2021 9:30:36 AM (No. 785280)
Practically overnite, Liz Cheney has become the republican version of Nancy Pelosi. She is arrogant and views herself as unaccountable. She is drunk on power. If she were competent and honest, she could justify her lousy attitude, but she is neither.
Liz Cheney epitomizes everything wrong in Washington. She is dishonest, corrupt, incompetent, and stupid. She covers that up by being vicious, arrogant, in your face, and a backstabber. There are so many like her in Washington. Washington is a disaster.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
terrywhite 5/14/2021 9:40:17 AM (No. 785289)
It's all about what she thinks she needs to do to further her career, to be a leader as she says, and absolutely nothing to do with integrity or doing what's best for the country.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Zigrid 5/14/2021 9:44:19 AM (No. 785293)
Well said... that captain Ahab definition of cheney is perfect... and it could apply to most President Trump derangement lefties and rinos... kinda like the macain brat who talks about her heroic father... I would put chelsea in that mix... children grown up in DC with self important fathers..convinced there are special rules for them....entitled elites because the swamp told them so.... wrongo buckaroo...Washington DC belongs to the people and nervous Nancy's wall doesn't mean you swampies own it...
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
5 handicap 5/14/2021 10:12:51 AM (No. 785321)
Her treason will forever be Dick Cheney's legacy! How fitting?
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Italiano 5/14/2021 10:12:56 AM (No. 785322)
Wile E. Coyote, more like. What a nutcase she's become.
Plus, the election was stolen.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
keep_right 5/14/2021 10:16:43 AM (No. 785327)
I'm afraid the real Liz Cheney has stepped out from behind a fake Conservative veil. Wyoming has a big decision to make in '22.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
weejun 5/14/2021 10:58:53 AM (No. 785376)
If you want to see the epitome of delusion, watch Brett Baier's interview of Ahab Cheney. It is hard to find anyone else in today's world that believes they have such an iron grip on "the truth."
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
bighambone 5/14/2021 11:53:35 AM (No. 785445)
You would have to figure that it was over for Cheney with the majority of the Congressional Republicans last week or so when she walked across the House Chamber to kiss Biden’s ring as he was arriving to give his readout from his teleprompter to what the Democrats called a joint session of Congress that was in reality attended by less than half the Congress, with the attendees being predominantly leftist Democrats.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
DVC 5/14/2021 11:55:37 AM (No. 785447)
She has lost her mind. But it was such a tiny little thing, it could have rolled under a piece of furniture, never to be found.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
little guy 5/14/2021 12:14:22 PM (No. 785475)
Methinks she doth protest too much.
This is NOT about Trump ... it is all about Liz and her running dogs.
She has tried her darnedest to wrest control of the Republican party back from the T.E.A. (Taxed Enough Already) party guys/gals and put it where she believes it rightfully belongs ... namely, in the hands of the Bushes, the Cheneys, the Romneys and the the Chris Christies of the world. She was speaking for all of them!
This is a battle between the RINOs and the real GOP elephants! My money is on the old pachyderm.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Vincent Vega 5/14/2021 1:23:16 PM (No. 785606)
I'm still trying to understand her motivation for committing career suicide.
Is she planning on switching parties? I definitely believe it's personal and nothing to do with Jan. 6th. She's using that because she believes that's the best way to get at President Trump.....and she is definitely trying to get at him. But why? Is it just a deranged hatred of the man? I'm missing something I'm sure.
She is no longer bringing Wisconsin values to DC, which she was elected to do. I'm sure the voters of that state are not very happy about that and will take care of it in the next election...........although I believe she will announce her "retirement" to save herself the embarrassment of a spectacular loss.
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Sublimely arrogant, Cheney reminds me of Jean Francois Kerry. Both think they're by far the smartest person in any room (when they're clearly not) and both feel the need to save the world from their perceived enemies.
Liz thinks she'll run for president in 2024. Maybe her dad will vote for her.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
Mother of AL 5/14/2021 2:10:34 PM (No. 785649)
I was the article in TIME that was referenced in the article.. It was nothing but a bunch of garbage about how well the dems organized for the vote. I am sick to death hearing people say Trump was an attack on democracy, was trying to become a dictator etc. Trump was working on SAVING the Republic, and democracy. And I’m also getting tired of the attacks on his ‘persona’. He simply put off the facade of ‘gentleman’, as defined by the Bushes. He said what he thought. He said what the Bushes and others (most of us included) were saying in private.
In short, I am sick of the lies being told about Trump. If the next 4 years are as bad as the last 100 days, there will be no country left, which is EXACTLY WHAT THE DEMS WANT.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Bailey 5/14/2021 2:39:51 PM (No. 785692)
Capt. Liz thinks she is the RINO's leader of the New World Order. She alone must save the world and prevent the return of Moby Trump. And he is returning!
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
Vincent Vega 5/14/2021 5:12:27 PM (No. 785815)
Sorry. Wyoming, not Wisconsin.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
broken01 5/14/2021 6:50:05 PM (No. 785856)
My fellow L-Dotters I consider myself a smart man but I have a question. Is Liz the captain or the whale?
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 5/14/2021 7:54:15 PM (No. 785884)
Liz Cheney is a rabid animal searching for her next bite.
To the sensible citizens of Wyoming, get her out of office ASAP.
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L. Cheney is a shameless political opportunist. No shortage of those in our country, Dem or Rebooblican.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
XCenturion 5/14/2021 11:25:39 PM (No. 786002)
Some news channel interviewed people in Wyoming to see who still supports Liz Chaney and plans on voting for her. Four people were interviewed. Three Republicans and one wing nut Democrat. Guess who the only person was that supports Liz Chaney? You got it. The wing nut Democrat! Oust Liz Wyoming!
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