Re: Liz Cheney Is About to Find Out How Little Clout There Is in the Greenrooms of the Republic

[Dick]

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<governo...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Dick Cheney is fucking his own daughter.
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I know I should be disgusted, but now, I’m just amused. From the
Washington Post:

As the party met in Salt Lake City this week, the leaders of the
Wyoming GOP privately signed a special letter that would allow
the national party to financially support Harriet Hageman,
Cheney’s primary challenger. The letter officially recognizes
Hageman as the presumptive nominee for the seat.

In response to the party passing the “Rule 11” resolution that
could fund Cheney’s challenger, a spokesman for Cheney said:
“Wyoming Party Chairman Frank Eathorne and the Republican
National Committee are trying to assert their will and take away
the voice of the people of Wyoming before a single vote has even
been cast.”

Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel also
worked behind the scenes with David Bossie, a top Trump ally, to
author and push a resolution that attacked Cheney’s work on the
committee, called her a “destructive” force in the GOP and vowed
the party would no longer support her. “We’ve had two members
engage in a Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens who
engaged in legitimate political discourse. This has gone beyond
their original intent. They are not sticking up for hard-working
Republicans,” McDaniel said in a joint interview with Bossie at
a Salt Lake City hotel where the party is holding its winter
meeting.

Actually, smearing shit on the walls of the Capitol is a little
non-verbal to count as “discourse” of any kind, but that’s
besides the point. And if Ronna No Maiden Name has hooked the
RNC onto a king ratfcker like David Bossie, then she truly is
lost. But seriously, can anybody really be shocked by this news?
(These same people are after Adam Kinzinger, too.) Let’s look at
this purely as politics. It is now beyond axiomatic that the
Trumpists have won control of the Republican Party. That’s where
the power obviously lies. That’s going to be the source of any
Republican gains in the midterms. That’s who Kevin McCarthy is
going to owe his speakership, if he gets it, which is far from a
sure thing.

Now, all these things being equal, why wouldn’t they cast Cheney
and Kinzinger into the outer darkness? Cheney represents a few
herds of bison and several piles of rocks. Kinzinger’s announced
he’s not running in 2022 anyway. In terms of actual political
power, neither one of them swings the clout of Uncle Joe Cannon,
and he’s been dead since 1926. Liz Cheney is about to find out
how little clout there is to be found in the greenrooms of the
republic.

She remains the inexcusable spawn of the most inexcusable public
man of the latter half of the 20th century. She’s still a vote-
suppressing theocrat-of-convenience. All of her thunderations at
the former president* have been empty noise. They’ve influenced
nobody except television bookers and credulous liberals. What
has her actual effect on the country’s politics been? She can’t
even keep her own political party from trying to boot her from
her congressional district. She’s the flashiest empty suit in a
city full of them. Defenestrating Liz Cheney is going to be the
easiest thing Kevin McCarthy does over the next year.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a38985035/liz-
cheney-censure-republican-national-committee-trumpism/