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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11/04 & 1/6 was a senseless transfer of power.
Rubin knows plenty about lying.
Jen Rubin, a real Ayers Kisser
Rot in hell
Republicans need to get some courage and expunge: Jennifer Rubin, Bill Kristol, Dick Cheney and the Bushes.
LOL! The suggestion that the Democrat Party is "patriotic" is a joke. The Democrat Party hasn't been patriotic for a very, very long time. They claim to support the Constitution then do everything in their power to undermine it.
Rubin needs to pull her head out of Biden's rear.
The only person murdered, shot, and killed that day was an unarmed Air Force Veteran named Ashli Babbitt.
Are the Pubbies queuing up yet?
I denounce the big lie daily. The big lie is that Biden won in a fair and free election.
Jebbifer is still butt hurt that her heartthrob Yeb! did not get to be the Designated Loser in 2016.
Jen Rubin and her soulmate Maggie Haberman are against everything Western Civilization stands for, like shampoo and soap.
The REAL “Big Lie” = The 2020 was honest and legitimate.
Denounce the Stalinazi media/political Derp State BIG LIE that the child molester/pedophile/Red Chinese & Soros puppet won the Presidency !
Traitors must swing.
I saw the names Jennifer Rubin and Washington Post. Stopped there.
Jennifer "Bobby Peru" Rubin
We are a REPUBLIC.
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