tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3669412675139526125.post8827708547867468363..comments2024-03-12T21:13:06.850-05:00Comments on Legal Schnauzer: It's tempting to view Liz Cheney as a saint for calling out Donald Trump's "Big Lie," but her family's ties to other GOP deceptions should give all of us pauselegalschnauzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09619089628125964154noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3669412675139526125.post-30677387694654854162021-05-13T13:18:27.175-05:002021-05-13T13:18:27.175-05:00As a libtard, I never thought I would find myself ...As a libtard, I never thought I would find myself agreeing so much with Liz Cheney.legalschnauzerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09619089628125964154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3669412675139526125.post-86649491896182084302021-05-13T13:17:11.264-05:002021-05-13T13:17:11.264-05:00From Politico: Cheney: McCarthy 'not leading w...From Politico: Cheney: McCarthy 'not leading with principle'<br /><br />Rep. Liz Cheney ripped into House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Thursday over his loyalty to former President Donald Trump.<br /><br />“I think he is not leading with principle right now,” Cheney (R-Wyo.) said in an interview on NBC’s “Today" show. “I think that it is sad, and I think it’s dangerous.”<br /><br />The interview came one day after McCarthy (R-Calif.) orchestrated Cheney's removal from her leadership position as Republican conference chair. GOP lawmakers had soured over the past month on Cheney's unreserved criticism of the former president over his repeated lies about the 2020 elections and Trump’s role in inciting the Jan. 6 Capitol riots.<br /><br />“For reasons that I don’t understand leaders in my party have decided to embrace the former president,” Cheney said.<br /><br />For his part, McCarthy has denied the idea that election denialism is an animating principal within the Republican party.<br /><br />"I don’t think anybody is questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election,” McCarthy said outside the White House on Tuesday hours after ousting Cheney from party leadership over her refusal to cooperate with Trump's campaign to undermine the results of the 2020 election.<br /><br />Cheney said she was gobsmacked that the minority leader traveled to Trump’s Florida resort less than a month after the deadly insurrection that gripped the Capitol.<br /><br />"Leader McCarthy’s visit to the former president at Mar-a-Lago was really stunning given what the former president did,” she said. “He provoked an attack on the Capitol — an attack on our democracy. I can’t understand why you’d want to go rehabilitate him.”<br /><br />The Wyoming Republican’s detractors say her Trump bashing had become a divisive force within the GOP and a nuisance, particularly for someone in a leadership role responsible for party messaging and presenting a unified front.<br />McCarthy after ousting Cheney: 'I don’t think anybody is questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election'<br /><br />The disempowerment of Cheney — the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney and until yesterday the House's highest-ranking female Republican — has delighted the former president and his supporters, who view her as an extension of the Bush era of the party that they have sought to root out. Trump called Cheney a "bitter, horrible human being" and a detriment to the Republican brand in a statement Tuesday.<br />legalschnauzerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09619089628125964154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3669412675139526125.post-12975769901166227472021-05-13T13:12:29.987-05:002021-05-13T13:12:29.987-05:00Excellent point, Steve. Trump is bad news, but the...Excellent point, Steve. Trump is bad news, but the GOP's "Big Lies" didn't start with him. legalschnauzerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09619089628125964154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3669412675139526125.post-58497234553387084022021-05-13T11:22:31.610-05:002021-05-13T11:22:31.610-05:00The GOP sold its soul to be able to cheat Al Gore ...The GOP sold its soul to be able to cheat Al Gore out of the Presidency in 2000.<br />The reward? Accelerated Global Warming, 9/11 The Iraq debacle. Forever was in Afghanistan!<br />Cheney was the salesman!Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10469469057329648342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3669412675139526125.post-41836546306116913922021-05-13T10:24:40.206-05:002021-05-13T10:24:40.206-05:00CNN: Cheney on Trump: 'He's going to unrav...CNN: Cheney on Trump: 'He's going to unravel the democracy to come back into power'<br /><br />Rep. Liz Cheney is outlining her next steps in the aftermath of her ousting from leadership, telling NBC, "I intend to be the leader, one of the leaders, in a fight to help to restore our party," and warning that former President Donald Trump is willing "to unravel the democracy to come back into power."<br />The Wyoming congresswoman, and now former House Republican Conference chair, also didn't rule out a run for president in the "Today" interview that aired Thursday morning, but she did confirm she will run for reelection for her US House seat next year.<br />Cheney said "silence is not an option" when speaking out against Trump, and she said admonishments from her fellow Republicans to move forward are not possible because the damage that the former president is causing is "an ongoing threat." The daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney reiterated her assertion Wednesday that Trump cannot become president again.<br /><br />"He's unfit," she said. "He never again can be anywhere close to the Oval Office."<br /><br />"For reasons that I don't understand, leaders in my party have decided to embrace the former President who launched that attack," Cheney said. "And I think you've watched over the course of the last several months, the former President get more aggressive, more vocal, pushing the lie, and I think that's a really important thing for people to understand. This isn't about looking backwards. This is about the real-time current potential damage that he's doing, that he continues to do."legalschnauzerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09619089628125964154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3669412675139526125.post-29140521936733906012021-05-13T09:57:53.224-05:002021-05-13T09:57:53.224-05:00I guess this comes under the heading of "You ...I guess this comes under the heading of "You don't have to have a perfect past (none of us does) to make an important contribution in the present or future. Liz Cheney does have ties to "Big Lies" of days gone by, but I think her actions now are still valid.<br /><br />It's kind of an Apostle Paul story. He had a sketchy past, but wound up doing some pretty important stuff later on.legalschnauzerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09619089628125964154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3669412675139526125.post-41965385736189074862021-05-13T09:52:18.901-05:002021-05-13T09:52:18.901-05:00David Corn makes a number of good points, but I st...David Corn makes a number of good points, but I still kind of admire what Liz Cheney is doing. She's fighting for the soul of one of our political parties -- and we only have two biggies -- so that's extremely important.legalschnauzerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09619089628125964154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3669412675139526125.post-34722614721166627872021-05-13T07:20:05.957-05:002021-05-13T07:20:05.957-05:00I disagree with you on many things, but I have to ...I disagree with you on many things, but I have to agree that the worst political decision in my long lifetime was the decision by Bush and Cheney to go back into Iraq and depose Hussein. That decision will negatively affect America for the rest of my life. So stupid! Unfortunately this is par for the course for almost all politiciansAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com