Title: Liz Cheney: Poster Child for Article V
Original CoS Document (slug): liz-cheney-poster-child-for-article-v
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Created: 2022-08-17 11:10:11
Updated: 2022-08-24 03:00:00
Published: 2022-08-17 02:00:00
Converted: 2025-04-14T21:18:58.602053613
The people of Wyoming spoke on August 16.
Despite her assertions to the contrary, Rep. Liz Cheney failed to listen. She has been failing to listen for a good portion of her time in the House of Representatives.
Her astonishing sense of importance and entitlement – and that of her family – is an instructive argument in favor of an Article V Convention of States.
Cheney's ham-fisted attempt to draw a parallel between this stage of her political career and that of Abraham Lincoln's was disgraceful, and so tone-deaf as to be comical.
She suggested that her failure to even make it to a general election in order to retain her House seat is but a prelude to the ultimate prize down Pennsylvania Avenue.
After all, didn't Lincoln lose an election and become president? Isn't she confronting the same dangers to the Union as was Lincoln?
Liz Cheney is to Abraham Lincoln as the number one is to 150 trillion or, depending on the day, the amount of the obligations owed by the United States government.
In her obvious bid for a Profile in Courage Award from the Kennedy family, Cheney repeated Lincoln's timeless description of our representative Republic as being one of, by, and for the people.
Yet she consistently demonstrated and demonstrates utter contempt for her constituents. Many of those constituents denied her what she and her parents, entrenched Washington, D.C. barnacles, apparently believe to be a birthright.
Partisan victories of national candidates for office espousing fidelity to the Constitution are necessary for sure. But they are fleeting and mostly end in disappointment.
Think of the time, effort, and sacrifices spent and made by conservatives and constitutionalists defending, electing, and re-electing figures such as Cheney's father and his running mate. Think of the time, effort, and sacrifices made by the Tea Party movement that was thought to be a check against an outrageous executive.
What did those partisan “victories” and work gain? Endless wars, soaring debt, and the Patriot Act for starters. Then nationalized medicine, racial disharmony, and 1970s-like inflation for an encore.
No matter which party holds Congress and the White House, the federal government expands, encroaches, and enervates.
True, the alternatives to certain candidates and political blocs were seemingly worse. But families on either side of the partisan divide who make politics the family business – and from which they seem to accumulate profit and power as the people suffer – are antithetical to the vision and stated wishes of the Founders of this Republic.
The brilliance of George Mason and the Constitutional Convention in devising the language of Article V of the Constitution is that the people need not rely upon partisans who claim to act in our best interests.
We can circumvent the charlatans and profiteers in Congress by working with and persuading those representatives closest to us, and who are likelier to actually listen to the people, to act in our best interests.
We must force Congress and the federal government, through our state legislatures, to bow before the sovereign. An Article V Convention of States that limits the scope and power of the federal government is the nonpartisan and lawful mechanism to make it happen.
It's a great and good thing for the Republic when someone like Liz Cheney is denied office. But don't get caught up in Team Red versus Team Blue. More often than not, as Cheney demonstrated and will continue to demonstrate, both are really Team Purple.
Play for Team Constitution and ultimate victory through Article V.