Rep Liz Cheney To Become GOP’s Sacrificial Lamb Today
A day of reckoning has arrived for the GOP as the Republican Party will sacrifice Rep Liz Cheney today on the altar of Donald J. Trump.
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Rep Liz Cheney is currently the 3rd most powerful Republican in Congress. However, her status is expected to change today as party members will kick her out of her leadership position just to appease a man who lost the 2020 presidential election and is no longer in office: Donald J. Trump.
Rep Liz Cheney, who is the daughter of former vice-president Dick Cheney, has been a loyal Republican and a devout conservative. However, she made a grave mistake the day she decided honesty and democracy were far more important than the delicate ego of one big bully.
She blamed Trump for the January 6th insurrection that left congressional members hiding under their desks in fear for their lives as MAGA fanatics stormed the Capitol and were out for blood. She also flat-out refused to promote the “Big Lie” that Donald Trump actually won the election and that victory was stolen from him because of an enormous conspiracy of fraud that involved elected Republican leaders from Arizona to Georgia.
Now, today, Rep Liz Cheney will be forced to pay for her sin of bucking the words of Fox News and NewsMax and Trump by daring to be honest. Today, Donald J. Trump will get the opportunity to flex his mob boss-like muscle and prove to his party that he is all-fearing and omnipotent — as spineless Republicans cower in fear of his wrath and bend to his every whim.
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“The House GOP has a massive opportunity to upgrade this week from warmonger Liz Cheney.” – Donald J. Trump
They tried (unsuccessfully) to unseat her in February when she went against ReTrumplican marching orders and voted to impeach Trump for the Capitol Hill attack. Now, they will get another shot today to deliver the death knell with one final blow.
“While embracing or ignoring Trump’s statements might seem attractive to some for fundraising and political purposes, that approach will do profound long-term damage to our party and our country,” Cheney wrote in a Washington Post op-ed last week.
Oh, Liz. Why’d you have to go and be so honest!
GOP votes to dump Cheney from leadership
In an extraordinary bow to former President Trump, House Republicans voted Wednesday to purge GOP Conference Chairwoman Liz Cheney from her leadership post, punishing the conservative Wyoming Republican for daring to refute Trump’s lie that the 2020 election was stolen.
The decision was made by voice vote, meaning there will be no tally of the lawmakers who voted to dump Cheney, or of those who wanted her to stay on. Sources inside the closed-door vote said it was an overwhelming vote against Cheney.
That represents a remarkable shift from a similar challenge to her leadership status in February, when she won handily. And it marked the first time in recent memory that a congressional GOP leader was toppled by rank-and-file Republicans in the middle of their term through a formal vote. […] – The Hill, May 12, 2021