The Real Profile in Courage

I am grateful for Liz Cheney's participation in the Jan 6 committee work. Extremely grateful for this one good act that will most likely end her political career. 

 

But, (and yes, I know that but takes away from the statement, maybe negates it) this alone will not make up for all the harm she has done or make her a hero or profile in courage by my carefully developed criteria. Heroic would have been speaking out BEFORE the party she voted in lockstep with put this country on life support. Heroic would have been standing before cameras and working hard to keep an unqualified, mentally unstable, criminally suspicious, known hypocrite, probably RINO and CINO man from being (s)elected the first time. Heroic would have been demanding a full investigation of Russian interference and electoral tampering before the inauguration.

Heroic would have been calling out her own father when he demonstrated that he was evil and corrupt, and when he made a fortune by invading Iraq instead of Saudi Arabia, home of the actual attackers. 

Profiles in courage don't abet the bad guys before they stand up against them.

 

If she leaves the fascist-republican party, and the NRA, and stays in office and VOTES to clean up the messes she helped make, I will update my overall opinion to give her the respect she will have earned.

 

Her history of voting in lockstep with fascist-republicans, and her negligence in not calling out her father, is unacceptable. She never did the right thing before and is suddenly receiving praise for finally doing ONE thing right and that's far too little too late for the praise and titles I see people who should know better offering her.  

 

HER ACTIONS/VOTES caused tremendous stress and work for good people who always do the right things - the HARD things, the things that risked their carriers and got them years of dishonest, hideous attacks from media and internet morons, the things for which they received many threats for many years.

 

NANCY PELOSI is THE Profile in Courage. Other Democrats who have worked long and hard with her also earned that title. 

Words Matter. 

Legacies Matter.