Elizabeth Cheney speaks out on, well, everything

Elizabeth Cheney, the former State Department official seated here between her sister, Mary, and her father Vice President Dick Cheney, is not going quietly into the night.

The mother of five children, Cheney has been involved in the State Department's Mideast policy. Talking to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee a few weeks ago, she said the "time for diplomacy" with Iran is "rapidly coming to an end."

Then today, Cheney went on MSNBC and blasted the Supreme Court (for its ruling on habeas corpus for detainees that she called "a misinterpretation of the Constitution") and took issue with Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama.

A former staffer for failed Republican presidential candidate former Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee,  Cheney called McCain "a unique kind of Republican" who "a lot of us in the party, including myself, didn't support in the primaries."

As for Obama, Cheney said his call for an end to the Bush taxes is "exactly wrong for the nation at this time" and called his policy toward international diplomacy "naive."

Asked by MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell about "an October surprise," in administration action toward Iran, Cheney made no effort to douse speculation. "It is absolutely clear that neither the United States nor Israel can tolerate a nuclear-armed Iran," she said.

Like father, like daughter?

-- Johanna Neuman

Photo: Ed Reinke/Associated Press

Comments

[DFC102]

Uh huh.

Elizabeth Cheney understands he United States Constitution better than the Supreme Court. Maybe not.

McCain is "unique" Republican. Meaning, he has renounced the entire legacy of the Bush Administration but he's the only one with an R after his name, so we'll vote for him.

I guess it runs in the family after all.