Posted on 05/07/2021 8:19:13 AM PDT by Mariner
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) is almost certainly going to be ousted as No. 3 House Republican next week, even though she voted with former President Donald Trump more often (93 percent) than her likely replacement, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) — as Stefanik's conservative critics point out. While Stefanik has morphed from Trump skeptic to enthusiastic booster, Cheney has transformed from one of those "hold-their-noses-and-deal-with-him" establishment Republicans into, finally, Sen. John McCain's political "heir," Susan B. Glasser writes in The New Yorker.
After Trump tried to co-opt "the Big Lie" this week to refer to his false claims that he won the 2020 election, Cheney shot back that "the 2020 presidential election was not stolen," and "anyone who claims it was is spreading the big lie." Predictably, House Republicans turned against Cheney and sided with Trump, who "has learned the lesson of previous demagogues: the bigger and more flagrant the untruth, the better to prove the fealty of his party," Glasser writes.
"It's all got to do with fealty to Trump and the Big Lie and the fact that Liz is a living reproach to all these cowards," Eric Edelman, a friend of Cheney's, told The New Yorker. Glasser continues:
Cheney's rupture with the House Republican Conference has become all but final in recent days, but it has been months in the making. Edelman revealed that Cheney herself secretly orchestrated an unprecedented op-ed in The Washington Post by all 10 living former defense secretaries, including her father, warning against Trump's efforts to politicize the military. The congresswoman not only recruited her father but personally asked others, including Trump's first Defense Secretary, Jim Mattis, to participate. ... The Post op-ed appeared on Jan. 3, just three days before the insurrection at the Capitol. [Susan Glasser, The New Yorker]
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Sen. John McCain’s political “heir,”
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Another transRepublican exposed.
"Politicize the military." And the last article I just read was how a lesbian general in the Air Force, in charge of "LGBTQ diversity" was celebrating an all-homosexual helicopter crew.
Just when and how did President Trump try to politicize the military?! Especially compared with what the Biden Admin is forcing upon the military in the form of diversity, social engineering, and CRT. Where are these former SecDefs now? Maybe they should taker a lesson from the senior French military.
I'm speechless. I am without speech.
Let it settle in that the GOP leadership knew about this and still circled the wagons and backed her!
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“Cheney’s rupture with the House Republican Conference has become all but final in recent days, but it has been months in the making. Edelman revealed that Cheney herself secretly orchestrated an unprecedented op-ed in The Washington Post by all 10 living former defense secretaries, including her father, warning against Trump’s efforts to politicize the military. “
Seeing how Biden is TOTALLY politicizing the military, you KNOW just who Liz Cheney was working for when she recruited ex military brass to make their false claims against Trump.
How did Liz Cheney go from being a talking head to being one of the leaders of the GOP in the House?
Powerful establishment connections in the swamp.
Notice how editorials and real news are indistinguishable today
Yes, all we need is advice from her wonderful father and Donald Rumsfeld - the idiots who got us into a costly, disastrous war over some non-existent WMDs and who had No plan, No plan for how to administer the country of Iraq, 30 million people and reasonably advanced, once it had been invaded and occupied.
The only reason they are doing anything now is that donations are drying up.
145 voted in February to retain her in leadership.
They simply want to dupe us into re-electing all the people who voted to put her in leadership and keep her there.
Next: All pedophile tank crew!
The Bushes and Cheneys
What liars they’ve proven to be
Laura and Mama Bush actually did represent the reality of the family
Liberals
Man did this forum get snookered
Including me
Of course we were comparing them to Dukakis, Clinton and Gore and Kerry
Course Buchanan had a shot....a long one ...in 1996...other than that....GOPe all the way till Trump
What a piece of work.
Did she think she’d get away with all that she’s been saying and doing without a problem? If she did, we need to find out why and deal with that person or persons.
“Man did this forum get snookered”
Me too.
But once you’ve been exposed to the truth, there’s no going back.
“Eric Edelman, a friend of Cheney’s, told The New Yorker. Glasser continues”
Funny how these so-called Republicans always go straight to noted communist propagandists to dish their dirt when they’re about to get canned. This “friend” of hers wouldn’t be talking to “The New Yorker” without her consent and more likely at her direction.
Simply amazing how someone who voted with President Trump 94% of the time can hate him so much over him correctly calling out W and her father’s biggest foreign policy blunder of the 21st century. Well, that and because his personality certainly embarrassed her among all of her friends in the DC cocktail circuit, like Susan Glasser.
The Bushes did give us Thomas and Alito, but that’s literally been their only saving grace. The only thing the GOP establishment stands for is blowing up some brown people in far-away lands and adopting the entire left-wing program along a slightly longer timeline.
Of course. She’s been running the GOP for years. You think she just decided to turn evil a few weeks back?
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