Posted on 05/09/2021 3:49:33 AM PDT by Kaslin
Imagine General Dwight Eisenhower on June 6, 1944, speaking to the troops and after saying, “You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hope and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you,” he tosses in a, “But not Italians, or Irish, and certainly not any of you from California because Californians suck. I hope they get shot. When the bullets start flying, use those people as human shields.” How would that go over? Not well.
Would you follow that guy into battle? Hell no. Even if you weren’t Irish, Italian, or from California, how could anyone trust him?
Now imagine if you’d found out that Eisenhower, as a side gig, was selling surplus ammunition and weapons to the Germans. “Hey, it’s just sitting around not being used, and they asked if I’d sell it to them,” or some such thing. Would anyone have faith in him?
Absolutely not. Yet, that’s what Liz Cheney has done as House Republican Conference Chair. And that’s why she has to go.
Her failure is not because she doesn’t like Donald Trump, that is the least important part of this whole drama, but because she can’t do the job. Her job is to hold the caucus together and advance the Republican agenda. She can’t do it, and it’s all her fault.
Cheney’s raging case of Trump Derangement Syndrome aside, she has fired down her own trench too many times. Leaders, effective leaders, don’t attack their own troops. They can have differences with individuals, but when the chips are down, everyone has to be pulling in the same direction.
Imagine taking part in a tug-of-war and the person behind you, one of your own team members, is expending some of their energy kicking you in the back and cursing your existence. That’s what Liz Cheney has been doing when attacking other Republicans in Congress.
Feeling contempt for someone is one thing, being unable to contain it is another. Leaders need to contain it.
More than the contempt she can’t contain, Liz Cheney continues to make a mistake that shows a trait no Republican leader should ever have – she takes the bait from the media.
It’s clear she despises former President Trump. She voted with his agenda more than 90 percent of the time, but on a personal level she simply cannot stand him. And when asked by an eager media drooling for someone to play the John McCain role in the Congress, she answered the call.
Whether she did so willingly or out of some Pavlovian inability to control herself doesn’t matter, she did it. That’s all that matters. Every time asked, she can’t stop herself from going after the former President.
That she can’t stand him, or believes he incited a riot January 6th doesn’t matter, a leader has to bite their tongue every once in a while. Whenever a reporter wants a quote or to stir the pot with Republicans, she’s all too happy to oblige. We get it, now shut up already.
But it’s too late for that. Just as it’s too late for her to stop publicly criticizing some of her fellow Republicans in Congress. She’s done it, repeatedly. And that’s why she can’t be in leadership.
Whether she stays in Congress is up to her and the people of Wyoming, but she can’t be in leadership.
The vote this week should be a formality, Republicans can’t have a leader who can’t control themselves. More than that, she should recognize the problems she created for herself and resign her leadership position before a vote his held. If she cares at all about the Republican Party or the cause of conservatism, she should publicly admit she lost her head and realizes she can no longer be the caucus chair. A little bit of publicly eaten crow would do what she hasn’t been able to do so far in 2021: help the party.
Short of that, she’s continuing to aid Democrats. A vote to remove her would once again rehash all the bad publicity and damage that led her to this point. So the real question isn’t whether or not she should go, it’s whether or not she’ll do as much damage as possible on her way out the door. Before the vote is the last chance she has to be the person she should have been the whole time. Let’s hope she takes it, but it’s unlikely. If she had doing the right thing in her she wouldn’t be in this position in the first place.
There are many who need to be tossed out from the Republican Party.
It is OUR party. We are not going anywhere! If people like Cheney do not like that, they can leave and start their own party.
REVEALED: Liz Cheney’s Husband Works For Chinese Communist Party-Linked Law Firm.
The National Pulse ^ | 8 May 2021 | Natalie Winters
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3957529/posts
Communist Colleagues. [AKA LIZ CHENEY’S CCP HANDLERS]
To bolster the firm’s China practice, Latham & Watkins also employs former [”FORMER!” LOL!] Chinese Communist Party apparatchiks.
One of Cheney’s husband’s fellow Partners, Hui Xu, describes himself as previously working for China’s Ministry of Commerce in his bio:
Prior to private practice, Mr. Xu was a member of the in-house legal department at the China Chamber of Commerce under the Ministry of Commerce of China, where he handled trade remedy, intellectual property, and World Trade Organization matters.
Liz Cheney called the fire down upon her own head, first in a deliberate misinterpretation of the events of January 6, 2021, then in the violation of Reagan’s “Eleventh Commandment” - Thou shalt not speak ill of another Republican.
Some 95% of all the personal woe in this world is self-induced. Liz Cheney is going for the full 100% on her own behalf.
Outstanding!
She says it's all about Trump - but it's really all about her and her incompetence.
"I'm Dick Cheny's daughter - I should be in office, I should be in leadership..."
she probably thought she was untouchable with daddy’s donor list.
It’s about Trump and she is a glowBULList Bushie Free Traitor that needs to go away..
Cheney is a divider
That’s why all the people who support her staying in her position are all Democrat supporters ... they LIKE to keep the Republicans divided and infighting, it’s the only way their beloved Democrats can win
enough
Wrong. IMO if she was pro Trump no one would want her gone.
I am so disappointed in the Cheneys, the Bushes, etc.......it’s one reason we quit the Republican Party!!
uh....ALL the DEMOCRATS would!!
all of the UniParty believes they have earned the right to rule America
In the author's words:
"she has fired down her own trench too many times."
You just cannot attack your own troops, no mater who your father is.
I believe “she will do as much damage as she can on her way out he door.” Afterwards she may well switch to the Democrat Party where she would be given a prominent position.
The Democrats can have her. They are a den of snakes anyway.
I doubt her or her husband spent significant time in Wyoming. She is a clear Beltway brat - probably went to the private schools favored by the “elite”, married some DC lawyer whose business depends largely on contacts in the government, her father’s name and his friends’ money carried her into the House from Wyoming. Quite basically, she is someone who stands for nothing other than self-aggrandizement, like McCain you never hear her publicly criticize the Socialists but she finds it most profitable to dump on the people she supposedly represents and weaken their political position. She will do fine - not politically - she is finished but you will see her like Mona Charen and some of the incompetent boobs from the Bush Administration, paid to dish out garbage on conservatives by CNN, MSNBC as their token “conservative”.
and World Trade Organization matters.
Add emphasis to that one.
Liz Cheney is just a self righteous whiner, a Karen perhaps, but not a leader.
She cannot do so much damage as a Democrat. I hope she does it. She will lose in 22.
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