Posted on 01/11/2022 4:31:26 PM PST by Ennis85
The tableau of Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and her father, former vice president Richard B. Cheney, standing on the floor of the House as the sole Republicans to honor the police officers who died as a result of the Jan. 6 insurrection should be seared into the minds of voters and reporters. It perfectly depicted a Republican Party utterly devoid of leadership, decency and honesty. (Apparently, Republicans no longer respect the “blue line.”)
The moment was a reminder that we have one “normal,” patriotic party and one overtaken by an authoritarian cult based on lies. The notion of reforming the GOP from within has become farcical. But the Cheney family must not be the only Republican soldiers for democracy.
There are others. Start with the six former defense secretaries who are either Republicans or served under a Republican president and wrote alongside the elder Cheney and three Democratic former Pentagon chiefs in a Jan. 3, 2021, op-ed warning about the need for a seamless transfer of power and reminding the country that the military is loyal only to the Constitution. “The time for questioning the results has passed,” they wrote. “The time for the formal counting of the electoral college votes, as prescribed in the Constitution and statute, has arrived.” They correctly read the tea leaves and stepped forward to defend the rule of law and the sanctity of elections.
Other Republicans have done their part. Former president George W. Bush warmly congratulated the president-elect soon after the election and defended the integrity of the election. As he said at the time: “The American people can have confidence that this election was fundamentally fair, its integrity will be upheld and its outcome is clear.”
And do not forget former vice president Dan Quayle, who told then-Vice President Mike Pence that
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Hey, Jenn, would you please get a real job instead of inundating us with your deranged writings? Thanks!
Go for it RINOs. Stand up and be counted. Double dare you. You have nothing to lose but the office under the Constitution that you hold in utter contempt anyway.
Jennifer Rubin and others in her camp can write these words and be completely insulated from any repercussions. Sooner or later, however, the hot poker of truth will prevail with *all* of its repercussions.
By ‘democracy’ they really mean socialism.
Why would anyone take advice from a Democrat?
America is not now, and never has been a Democracy. It is a constitutional republic, a vastly different political structure.
😴 only stupid libtards fall for histrionics like this 🤪
Gotta hand it to the democrats and their media whores. They sure to stick to the message.
Wow mass formation much wash post?
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