Liz Cheney
It’s truly shameful that the leaders of the Republican Party have decided to oust Liz Cheney from her leadership post. She is a very, very conservative lawmaker and an extremely loyal Republican, but she has been forthright in saying that Donald Trump lost his bid for re-election and should be impeached for inciting the Capitol takeover designed to overthrow the election results.
Trump has been lying about his loss claiming with absolutely no evidence the election was rigged and rife with fraud, refusing to concede, calling his supporters to DC to overturn his election loss and inciting them to take over the US Capitol. The “Big Lie” has taken on a life of its own and is leading Republican state legislators in Georgia, Florida, Texas and Arizona to seek to disenfranchise minority and elderly voters who do not share their partisan identification.
Cheney voted to impeach him after the January 6 insurrection where Trump supporters took over the Capitol and sought to overturn Trump’s election loss by force. Her Republican colleagues in the House tried to overturn Biden’s victory, refused to recognize the results in Arizona and Pennsylvania, and some like Mo Brooks and Paul Gosar and Lauren Bobert appear to have collaborated with the white supremacist groups that led the Capitol take over.
On the eve of the vote to remove her as conference chair, Cheney said, “Remaining silent and ignoring the lie emboldens the liar,” “I will not participate in that. I will not sit back and watch in silence while others lead our party down a path that abandons the rule of law and joins the former president’s crusade to undermine our democracy.” The full text is at https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/read-liz-cheneys-speech-on-the-house-floor/ar-BB1gD88v?ocid=uxbndlbing.
Kevin McCarthy, the House Minority Leader from Bakersfield, CA, orchestrated her ouster at the urging of Trump. He seeks to replace her with Elise Stefanik of New York who has emerged, as a prominent supporter and propagator of Trump’s many lies – Trump is now strongly supporting her for the number three position in the House GOP leadership.
Some prominent disgusted Republican leaders are considering formation of a third party. https://www.axios.com/republicans-trump-third-party-threat-reports-c8724635-8b10-4081-a50d-ccd3304dc529.html That may be the best alternative, as the Republican Party under Trump and McCarthy, Cruz and Hawley has become irredeemably committed to propagating the “Big Lie” to American voters, and their most ardent supporters have been swept up in this madness now seeking to unravel the very fabric of our democracy. We have to appreciate and honor honesty and integrity in the face of lies and deceit and backstabbing, and thank Liz Cheney for standing firm against Trump.