Biff_Poindexter
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A wild day that defined the Republican Party
Rep. Liz Cheney survived to fight another battle but on a raucous and defining day, the appeasement of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene by House Republicans sent their party lurching further down the road to extremism.
www.cnn.com
"Senator Liz Cheney survived to fight another battle but on a raucous and defining day, the appeasement of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene by House Republicans sent their party lurching further down the road to extremism. The moral crisis of the GOP saw Cheney, a lifelong ideological conservative, forced to fight off a challenge to her leadership post after she voted to impeach a President [versus] Greene, a belligerent conspiracy theorist who thinks the GOP's problem is that it lost the presidential election too gracefully, got a pass from colleagues despite promoting a sick stew of QAnon lies and fantasies."
So the House Republicans voted 140 plus in favor of not removing Cheney; while 60 plus voted for removal and one single GOP member voted present...do you know how much of a fragile minded coward you have to be to still vote present on a secret ballot?? My money is on the fact that it was Republican House Leader McCarthy who did it...The Republicans also voted against removing Greene which was the same thing they did to remove a white supremacist by the name of Steve King....now Dems will force each GOP member to go on record when they pass a resolution to remove Greene....
Wasn't that long ago when the Bush and Cheney names were so popular and worshiped by the GOP that a chick named Liz Cheney was able to be elected to Congress just because her dad was Dick Cheney....my how the GOP has changed; while also staying predictably the same....They have stayed the same in terms of how everyone else predicted years ago that the GOP would just become a sliding scale of bad to worse...
If the Republican primary for president was held today -- and the two candidates are Liz Cheney and any random person who thinks school shootings are fake, the Earth is flat, muslims should be illegal and Jewish space lasers are real -- that random person will win...that is the Republican base and has been for awhile... and what does the old guard of McConnell, Romney, and others really have to offer their base anyway? Limited government? Fiscal responsibility? The republican base don't give a fuck about those things; if you don't offer them bullshit culture war greivances, xenophobia and trolling as the only policy -- then why should they vote for a Liz Cheney, Adam Kizinger, etc??