A nice little scoop from Newsweek:
Mel Sembler, the heavy-hitting Republican fundraiser and Florida real-estate magnate, plans to support Liz Cheney's new pro-war group, Keep America Safe (KAS).
"I love Liz Cheney and what she's doing," Sembler told the magazine, adding that he would be "as supportive as my budget will allow."
Sembler is a former RNC finance chair, who later served as President Bush's ambassador to Italy and chaired Scooter Libby's defense fund.
Sembler is also said to be encouraging Liz Cheney to run for Congress from Wyoming, but told Newsweek she's not yet convinced "the time is right." Still, given the coming launch of KAS, it's not hard to imagine that calculus could change soon.
Liz Cheney's group has said it will run radio and Web ads attacking President Obama on national security, in the districts of vulnerable Democratic members of Congress.

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furey
October 26, 2009 10:16 AM
Ms. Cheney, ask Dad: "Do the orders still stand?"
http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2008/12/18/clock-stoppers/
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tiowally
October 26, 2009 11:28 AM in reply to furey
Have you heard anything different?
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Chabuka
October 26, 2009 2:07 PM
Seems like the GOP has a great number of rich white slime merchants..remember the swift boater..T. Boone Pickens (still trying to capture and control the natural gas and water markets...make even more money..wheee!)...what a bunch of selfish pigs..do you think the nasty old uber-rich bastards have plans to "take it with them"..to HELL, maybe...?..But lets get back to slandering "welfare queens" and ACORN (the poor people and the minorities!)...shall we...?
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nerox3
October 26, 2009 4:41 PM
Mel Sembler also founded Straight and the Drug Free America Foundation.
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cinesimon
October 26, 2009 4:47 PM
Keep America Safe to me equals:
KILL 'EM ALL, AND LET GOD SORT 'EM OUT!
After all: if you're not on of these bizarre neo-con/right wing southern baptist christians, and support daddy Cheney's terrifying world view of gaining power through fear - even terror - then you're a legitimate enemy going by daddy's 1% doctrine.
So, with a Cheney still a possibility for being a political leader in America, there is still the chance that every person will once again be declared a traitor, or an enemy of America & 'freedom'(ie christian supremacy and corporate dictatorships being the declared rulers of the world - and not just over the top and unjustifiably influential as is currently the case), if they for whatever reason choose not to support the policies of a warmonger. That's in America.
Of course under Liz Cheney if you're a freedom loving country who happens to not feel so bitter toward more secular and truly 'for and by the people' countries, then you're not just going to face the threat of economic sanctions as Bush did to most of our allies before and during Iraq - they're going to face threats of military strikes. And like daddy: she will find a way to make it all seem legal to the gullible right wing minions who vote for people like them.
This Cheney anywhere near office would spell doom for much of America's progress away from war and death.
And doom for the rest of humanity is rather an understatement.
I've never, ever seen people as inherently evil.
Observing the Cheneys, I now feel that while there is an inherent evil within us all, it's very rare that it's ever realized, and it's hardly ever fully realized - it takes a massive amount of time and energy to coax it out.
Cheney senior grew into his around Nixon - but favorite daughter has been bred for it.
And she is one utterly terrifying military dictator in the making.
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DLD
October 26, 2009 7:12 PM
This is about greed! Liz Cheney was on Lockheed Martin's board into 9/03 which is why Lockheed ran away with nearly every DHS contract. Phil Perry--the Cheney's son-in-law jumped between government service posts favoring Lockheed, and being a Lockheed lobbyist. He finally was caught for racketeering in 1/07 by the global investigation grand jury and is waiting to be indicted.
This also is about Halliburton and Lockheed DOD war contracts. The Cheney family's wealth is comprised nearly solely of Halliburton and Lockheed shares. Kissinger did this for a friend's energy contract by extending the Vietnam War out 2 years longer than was planned, and history has repeated itself! The wars were extended in part, over energy contracts. The other only reason was Lockheed contracts causing a growth in shareholder income/dividends.
By the way, the Cheney family is in cahoots with Putin and his crime gang from St. Petersburg, Russia full of former KGB, and current and former FSB and MVD members who knew to target Lockheed shares after they were behind the planning, financing and training of the 911 hijackers. The Wahabi training camps moved into Chechnya in 1999 when Putin became FSB Director.
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