JUST IN: House GOP Vote to Oust Liz Cheney from Leadership Fails

Mediaite ^ | 2/3/2021 | Josh Feldman

[SoFloFreeper]

Congresswoman Liz Cheney is remaining in House Republican leadership after the vote to oust her from that role failed during a meeting late Wednesday.

According to early reports, the vote overwhelmingly favored Cheney — 145-61.

[SoFloFreeper]

Primary her. Please.

[Dutch Boy]

Once again they GOP circles its wagons to protect a fellow RINO. It seems this behavior will never end.

[lodi90]

Get rid of her. By any means necessary. If that means voting for the Democrat in the general election so be it. Cheney colludes with Democrats to fight conservatives. What’s good for the goose...

[mewzilla]

Meanwhile...

AOC, a Sitting Member of Congress, Weaponized Her Followers in an Attempt to Silence a Free Press

[DoodleDawg]

Once again they GOP circles its wagons to protect a fellow RINO. It seems this behavior will never end.

Supporting Greene and punishing Cheney would give the Democrats an even larger issue to use in the 2022 elections. There is nothing to do with Cheney that can't be solved in the next Republican primary, so concentrate on that.

[mewzilla]

If and when we get the who-counts-the-votes issue fixed, how do solve a problem like Liz Cheney...?

You find and run MAGA candidates in BOTH Dem and Pubbie primaries.

There are enough Donald Dems and a growing number of lefties being red-pilled that this shouldn’t be a problem.

[mewzilla]

It won’t be solved if voters continue to allow Deep State to pick their primary candidates for them.

That’s how they got Liz Cheney.

[DoodleDawg]

That’s how they got Liz Cheney.

They got Liz Cheney because of the family name. Run a single, solid Conservative against her in the primary and she should be history. Run two or more against her and she's back in. That's the key.

[USS Alaska]

According to early reports, the vote overwhelmingly favored Cheney — 145-61.

The vote was held in SECRET.

They didn't have the guts to vote the way that all other votes are held.

If I find out that my congresscritter, Guy Reschenthaler voter to retain lez, I'll let him know why I will donate to his demonRAT opponent.

[hardspunned]

No, don’t vote for the damn democrat. That’s as bad as voting for the damn republican. Look at the mess we’re in electing the competing wings of the uniparty. Vote third party party or write DJT in for every office. Quit being a GOP stooge. There is no other way to stop the authoritarian DC swamp. What the hell do you still have to lose by sh!t canning the Quisling GOP.

[mewzilla]

No, they key is running MAGA candidates in BOTH party’s primaries.

As long as the candidate’s MAGA, I don’t give a rat’s patootie about the letter after the name.

[SmokingJoe]

This reminds me of Dem leader Joe Crowley, the third ranking Dem House leader who was in line to succeed Pelosi, getting clobbered by AOC in the Dem primaries in 2018, despite the entire Dem leadership being solidly behind Joe Crowley.
What are the GOP house leadership going to do when Liz Cheney gets slaughtered by her primary challenger in 2022?
Oh wait, she will join the Lincoln Project and become a child abuser or fraudster like all Lincoln Project members are while collecting free money from Dem Billionaires.

[Dutch Boy]

True. I have my own congressman to deal with, Katko. the problem is that his opponent for the past few elections is Dana Balter, a raving lunatic moonbat. The NYRNC doesn’t let a republican challenger got at Katko. It will likely be the same in 2022.

[DoodleDawg]

No, they key is running MAGA candidates in BOTH party’s primaries.

Where are you going to find MAGA candidates to run in Democrat primaries? And what possible chance to they have of winning?

[SmokingJoe]

Run two or more against her and she's back in

Not if President Trump backs one candidate and campaigns hard for that candidate. And President Trump will do exactly that.
He has a long memory. He is not going to forget that Cheney impeachment vote.

[nathanbedford]

A reply just published on another thread:

McCarthy tried to straddle two stools and not surprisingly fell between.

The fight over Marjorie Taylor Greene should be seen as a metaphor of the fight between the Republican donor class and the Republican base. McCarthy's backing of Liz Cheney offends the base but he did so because Liz Cheney scoops up huge sums from the donor class generating power for her in the House of Representatives, much as Mitch McConnell rules the Senate Republicans by the same means.

Always follow the money.

So McCarthy backs Cheney and the source of funds from the donor class. Of course, the interest of the donor class are inimical to the interests of the base as it was created by Donald Trump, a middle-class, working constituency of the middle West. The donor class wants to import cheap labor and export industrial capacity.

The donor class wants the elections to be determined on the basis of race (Nathan Bedford's decade-long maxim that all politics in America is not local but ultimately racial) but governing be done to protect their globalist class interests.

But little old Marjorie Taylor Greene has no donor class backing, indeed she has nothing going for her except a message that resonates with the base as it resonated in her district to the tune of 75% of the voters. McCarthy's strategy was to finesse the situation as the Rino Republicans have always done: make noise on behalf of the base, pretend to negotiate on Greene's behalf but actually operate on behalf of the donor class. So McCarthy tried to cut a deal, shave a committee assignment from Marjorie Taylor Greene, badmouth her moderately, and thus tacitly assure the donor class that representative Greene would be nothing but a well muzzled backbencher while the soul of the Republican Party remained unbesmirched.

The Democrats frustrated the scheme by refusing to compromise, so McCarthy is left with the worst of both possible worlds, his colleague in the party stripped of assignment, rebuked, and himself with an alienated base and no upside anywhere to show the establishment. He is revealed to be a toady of the donor class by his support of Lynn Cheney while exposing his own weakness in protecting his own.

A classic lesson of the folly of trying to be all things to all people.

[Shady]

Look, The GOP is NOT the party that represents us, US. Time to vote outside the Box.

[Truth29]

Matt Gaetz clearly can’t count.

[EnquiringMind]

Disgusting. As if her attitude wasn’t bad enough...

[franksolich]

It's too bad this happened, mostly because party leaders should be supportive of all fellow party members, not against them. I was hoping she'd get dumped, and was downheartened that she wasn't.

However, this is early February, a scant four months after the elections, and the dust hasn't settled yet.

It's obvious there's going to be significant transformation of both political parties, and best to just sit back, relax, get mellow, and watch for a while longer, letting things happen naturally.

Liz Cheney along with all the other anti-Trump Republicans, is now serving her last term in office anyway.