Posted on 10/05/2023 5:26:04 PM PDT by lowbridge
Former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney welcomed Kevin McCarthy’s ouster as House speaker this week, castigating him as “unfit” for the role.
“Kevin McCarthy is absolutely unfit to be speaker,” Cheney, 57, said in remarks at the University of Minnesota Wednesday night.
When asked, Cheney said she would have joined the eight Republicans who backed ejecting McCarthy (R-Calif.) from his position had she still been in the House of Representatives.
Cheney also lauded House Democrats’ decision not to bail McCarthy out as “principled and honorable,” arguing that he eroded trust with them.
“Kevin McCarthy, at every moment over the course of the last two years, has done more to enable and collaborate with and apologize for Donald Trump,” Cheney explained.
“I think they did exactly the right thing.”
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The former Wyoming congresswoman also issued a warning about Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), one of the candidates to replace McCarthy.
“If the Republicans decide that Jim Jordan should be the Speaker of the House,” she warned, “there would no longer be any possible way to argue that a group of elected Republicans could be counted on to defend the Constitution.”
One name Cheney did float was Speaker pro tempore Patrick McHenry (R-NC), who she contended would be “great” to fill the job.
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When your whole state tells you the STFU and you still keep prattling on meaninglessly, you might be a Cheney.
Teaching position at UV. Ever notice how these professional Washingtonians when vacating, for whatever reason, their seats never actually leave Washington? Always sniffing around the honey pot.
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