House Republicans Oust a Defiant Liz Cheney for Her Repudiation of Trump's Election Lies.
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Via: sister-mary-agnes-ample-bottom • 3 years ago • 38 commentsBy: Catie Edmondson and Nicholas Fandos (MSN)
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House Republicans purged Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming from their leadership ranks on Wednesday, voting to oust their No. 3 for her refusal to stay quiet about Donald J. Trump's election lies, in a remarkable takedown of one of their own that reflected the party's intolerance for dissent and unswerving fealty to the former president.
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The action came by voice vote during a brief but raucous closed-door meeting in an auditorium on Capitol Hill on Wednesday morning, after Ms. Cheney made a defiant final speech that drew boos from her colleagues.
In her parting remarks, Ms. Cheney urged Republicans not to "let the former president drag us backward," according to a person familiar with the private comments who detailed them on condition of anonymity. Ms. Cheney warned that Republicans were going down a path that would bring their "destruction," and "possibly the destruction of our country," the person said, adding that if the party wanted a leader who would "enable and spread his destructive lies," they should vote to remove her.
© Stefani Reynolds for The New York Times "Each day spent relitigating the past is one day less we have to seize the future," Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the minority leader, wrote in a letter to party members on Monday.
Republicans did just that, after greeting her speech with boos, according to two people present, speaking on the condition on anonymity to discuss an internal discussion. They ultimately opted not to hold a recorded vote, after Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the Republican leader, said that they should vote by voice to show unity.
Emerging from the meeting, Ms. Cheney remained unremorseful, and said she was committed to doing "everything I can to ensure that the former president never again gets near the Oval Office."
"We must go forward based on truth," Ms. Cheney told reporters. "We cannot both embrace the big lie and embrace the Constitution."
The action came the day after Ms. Cheney had delivered a broadside on the House floor against Mr. Trump and the party leaders working to oust her, accusing them of being complicit in undermining the democratic system.
In a scathing speech, Ms. Cheney said that the country was facing a "never seen before" threat of a former president who provoked the Capitol attack on Jan. 6 and who had "resumed his aggressive effort to convince Americans that the election was stolen from him."
"Remaining silent and ignoring the lie emboldens the liar," she said. "I will not participate in that. I will not sit back and watch in silence while others lead our party down a path that abandons the rule of law and joins the former president's crusade to undermine our democracy."
Mr. Trump weighed in on Wednesday morning as lawmakers were gathering to force Ms. Cheney out, saying he was looking forward to the ouster of a woman he called "a poor leader, a major Democrat talking point, a warmonger, and a person with absolutely no personality or heart."
Top Republicans have labored to avoid talking about the Capitol riot and have painted Ms. Cheney's removal as a forward-looking move that would allow them to move past that day.
Instead, the episode has only called attention to the party's devotion to Mr. Trump, its tolerance for authoritarianism, and internal divisions between more mainstream and conservative factions about how to win back the House in 2022. All of those dynamics threaten to alienate independent and suburban voters, thus undercutting what otherwise appears to be a sterling opportunity for Republicans to reclaim the majority.
As a replacement for Ms. Cheney, Republican leaders have united behind Representative Elise Stefanik of New York, a onetime moderate whose loyalty to Mr. Trump and backing for his false claims of election fraud have earned her broad support from the party's rank and file that Ms. Cheney, a lifelong conservative, no longer commands.
If Ms. Stefanik is elected this week to replace Ms. Cheney, as expected, the top three House Republican leadership posts will be held by lawmakers who voted not to certify President Biden's victory in January. In recent days, however, some hard-right Republicans have attacked Ms. Stefanik as insufficiently conservative and suggested the party should consider someone else.
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House Republicans purged Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming from their leadership ranks on Wednesday, voting to oust their No. 3 for her refusal to stay quiet about Donald J. Trump's election lies, in a remarkable takedown of one of their own that reflected the party's intolerance for dissent and unswerving fealty to the former president.
time to corner the market on maga kneepads...
Trump industries already has the market cornered.
Looks like the zombie apocalypse on the right is growing...
Millions of republicans believe that the election was stolen. Their grip on reality is tenuous at best but they follow the pied piper of lies.
Talk about a bunch of lemmings.
it's now crystal clear that trumpsters don't care about the constitution or democracy.
Isn't that the truth. They would rather foster a lie about free and fair elections (a hallmark of American democracy). Do they want to establish 2 classes of citizens, those who can vote and those who can't? That is slightly unconstitutional.
Their grip on reality is totally lost if they believe that.
didn't realize ignorant asses was synonymous , but yea, i guess i could see that.
I feel like a lot of elected representatives are focusing on the wrong things.
Their focus is on re-election and fundraising. Hence why priority number one is to get headlines and book appearances on cable TV. Actually legislating to try and work on the problems this country needs solved? Well... if it’s convenient and doesn’t get I. The way of those prime time slots.
And fundraising, and fundraising, and more fundraising and fundraising and...I'm sorry. What what the question?
What do you feel they should be focusing on?
Pretty much what Thrawn said.
Then why didn't you say so?
Agreement here. there are many items they could deal with that would better help America. It would help if the republicans would focus on governing. That is the major issue I have with the Republicans - they were so focused on countering Obama that we now have a generation of people on the Right who don't know how to govern this country. IMHO
But frankly that's not what their base is concerned about. These Republican legislators are pandering to a base that doesn't care about governance and focuses only griping about their own butthurt grievances and supporting those who will accept their wild fantasies about election fraud and the election being "stolen" from them even though there is no evidence because anything less would be damaging to the lie they've been telling themselves for the last seven months. They demand confirmation bias from their representatives and any Republican who wants to stay in power has to acquiesce to their demands or get primaried by even crazier Trumpites. Liz was trying to take a stand against a sea of ignorance and lost, there really is no longer hope for the Republican party preserving any semblance of sane footing.
Which is why I think having an election every two years is stupid.
True. With just a two year turn around legislators have virtually no time for governing, they have to spend virtually all their time either campaigning or giving hand jobs to the donors who just got them elected.
That is one thing I would change. Make the house term 4 years instead of two.
I get sick of the constant electioneering.
You just won a seat in the house, what are you going to do now?
Well first off, I have to start preparing for next year to start the campaign all over...
If they did half of congress alternating every 2 years it would make so much sense and remove so many headaches for both the voters and the parties.
Me too. I think we are all suffering from electioneering burnout.
I hope this shitty move backfires in 2022.
Where she is from is donald country. I am thinking she will not survive another election.
I saw where someone did interviews in her home state and only one person was on her side and it was the only Democrat they interviewed.
They rest had their lips firmly planted on the trump tit.
tit? they were tossing trump's salad...
Vinegar and water was used for dressing
Lindsey's favorite thing.
Double
So they were booing her.
What, do we have a bunch of elected children in congress?
The answer to that is a big, fat, hairy yes.
A bunch of idiots. They got rid of and booed one of the most conservative people in the house.
Stupidity is a defining factor within the new gop.
To remove her for stating a FACT, shows US just how FCKD UP the GOP truly IS !
Especially when they don't say a peep about the lunatics in their ranks.
But by all means, let's get rid of someone that voted with us like 95% of the time, just because she doesn't believe donald and his lies.
It is almost comical that the right wing people keep saying that the left cannot stop having donald on their brain when they are all shoved so far up his ass they can't see daylight.
I am sure the Lincoln Project will welcome her with open arms. Until their leftist contributors remember who her father is; who she really is; and the fact if she was on fire they break out the marsh mellows and watch her burn.
She can join a few other Republicans that have burned all of their bridges and have nothing to show for it. The right won't take them back; and they quickly found out what the left really felt about them.
And the world is watching. How embarrassing for the US.