"The problem with Ms Cheney is not inexperience, but family connections. Her appointment to powerful State Department positions, like her husband Philip Perry’s appointment as general counsel of the Department of Homeland Security, was part of a self-reinforcing habit of nepotism and insularity that plagued George W Bush's administration. Mr Cheney famously appointed supremely loyal associates throughout the government, allowing him to exercise influence through vertical channels in the State Department, Defence Department, Department of Justice and elsewhere, and ensuring him a degree of power never before seen in a vice president. But his reliance on such loyal associates ultimately trapped him inside an echo chamber of bad advice on issues such as torture and military intervention abroad. The reason why you shouldn’t appoint your daughter as your surrogate inside the State Department isn’t necessarily that she lacks the relevant experience. It is that your daughter is very likely to give you an inflated sense of your own genius, and that relying for strategic advice on a familial clique is likely to drive you into a blind corner of actions that only look defensible to people who are related to you."
via economist.com
Liz Cheney and her Dick father have the perfect situation. A following that never needs them to be correct and TV outlets for them to spread their falsehoods.
Imagine is Obama's kids were older and they had jobs at the State department. Would any Republican stop repeating how that nepotism was dangerous? Imagine the same for Chelsea Clinton.
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