Posted on 05/16/2021 8:21:45 AM PDT by Saint Athanasius
When the No. 3 House Republican gets the high jump this week, the real loser will be the attempt to suppress any real examination of what happened in the last election.
By Conrad Black
The vote this week on Representative Liz Cheney’s (R-Wyo.) status as House Republican conference chairman vastly transcends her. All sides are correct that it is a battle over the “Big Lie.”
Cheney, the Democrats, and NeverTrumpers all say the Big Lie is the contention that 2020 was not a fair election. They argue further that Donald Trump tried to promote the violent overthrow of the government on January 6 at the Capitol. They support Joe Biden’s claim in his address to Congress last month, that his (unnamed) predecessor had left the country “staring into the abyss of insurrection and autocracy.”
Trump supporters and many independents say this series of false and defamatory allegations is the actual Big Lie. It is already clear that Cheney, deservedly, will be thrown out of her leadership and presumably defeated in her bid to remain the representative from Wyoming. She voted with the former president on most occasions; their differences are not primarily over public policy. For her own reasons, she has not only come out of the Trump-hate closet, but declined even to bother testing the air as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and some others did, by squealing with joy that Trump was gone and then noting that perhaps he had not gone and abruptly returning to the closet of ambiguity.
No one outside of Wyoming, except Peggy Noonan, cares a whit about Liz Cheney. The question is whether the NeverTrumpers, abetted by the Democrats, can kill Trump’s chances of a political resurrection.
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I haven’t listen to Peggy Noonan since she went all crazy when McCain picked Sarah Palin as his running mate.
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I was listening to a podcast recent hosted by Patrick Bet David of Valutainment, Bernie Kerik was a guest, Kerik said he was intimately involved in the gathering information for the Trump Campaign that involved voting fraud....
He has nothing nice to say about Liz Cheney, according to Kerik, Liz Cheney never called about the information that was collected and called her the big lie because she knows absolutely nothing about the evidence that was gathered.
Let Lizard Cheney keep harping on a blue ribbon panel to investigate January 6. Will she back a similar panel to investigate the 6 states that acted outside the rule of law, Constitution foreign interference, and voting machines? Nope!
Not surprised. I watched the cheating unfold that election night. We all did. At one point, the NY Times had Trump % of winning at around 68% at around one in the morning. Then they stopped counting!!!
Cheney does not want to know the truth.
The fact that Cheney chose to die on this hill rather than concede even an inch to Trump tell you how terrified and desperate they are to fight him and what he stands for.
Liz Cheney is nothing but an opportunist, a political creature living off her father’s name. Get rid of this repugnant relic Wyoming.
There...fixed. Cheney knows the truth...she just doesn't want it known elsewhere.
their differences are not primarily over public policy.
Simply not true. Lizard says she regrets her vote for Trump. That defacto means she supports Biden’s border policy because Trump and Biden were the two choices on the ballot.
Thanks for fraternal correction. ;)
Who will be the first impeached, the Ho or Sniffer, when the Republicans take over the House in 2023?
Well, THAT was a fun [and likely continuing] ride with Ditch at The Wheel.
{And a heck of a long sentence]
Yeah. Written before Cheney got canned. But still a great read.
Lizard never talks about support for Personal Liberty and a Single Tiered Rule of Law.
When will McCarthy remove her from her Committee Assignments?
Just like what he did to Taylor Greene.
Thanks for the heads up! That’s an interesting trio.
I have always been assured by people who were supposed to know that Conrad Black was an intelligent observer.
Straight off, he said that Trump lost the election, pure and simple and Trump was being ridiculous to believe otherwise. Would not hear of election theft, Trump lost the popular vote legitimately and he would not hear of anything else.
Now he seems to be allowing room in his mind for a possibility the election was, he just now says “tampered” with.
Most of us here knew that from the first hours. Why did it take him so long to catch on if he is such an intelligent observer? Or maybe it has something to do with jumping in front of what is being uncovered and trying to say he was there all along.
Yeh, I don’t watch when she’s on tv and don’t read her articles. She is dead to me.
Conrad, as usual, nails it again.
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