Liz Cheney gone, but not forgotten
Liz Cheney, the Republican from Wyoming, was swiftly voted out of the Republican conference by voice vote on Wednesday morning for condemning the despotic behavior of former Pres. Donald Trump.
“I stand with Liz. . It was a sad day,” said Adam Kenzinger who agrees that party leaders are lying to their voting base about election integrity and the cause of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.
By stifling the truth about both the election and the riots, Republicans may be fueling potential future government rebellions. The U.S. military and National Guard were called upon to protect the Capitol based on intelligence that revealed the attack on the U.S. Capitol was planned. The fact that Cheney, one of 10 Republicans who supported the impeachment of Donald Trump for his influence in promoting the violence, was punished with dismissal by a majority of her Republican colleagues and Trump is being embraced, reflects a transformation in the party absent of patriotic sensitivity.
Kevin McCarthy said that it was time to move on without her to “unify the party” and took the vote without a count. Cheney, the daughter of Dick Cheney, refused to acquiesce to an agenda that supported Trump returning to leadership. The vote just took 20 minutes.
Rep. Cheney remains a member of Congress and made it clear that she will continue to oppose Trump’s re-emergence into the GOP. Just after members voted to remove her, Cheney, who was prepared to lose the vote stated, “We can not both embrace the big lie and the Constitution.“ She added that she plans to lead the fight to being a principled party and she will “do everything” she can to prevent the former president from getting anywhere near the Oval Office, vowing to lead the fight to block him.
Cheney was the top woman leader in the Republican part as the House Republican Conference chair, the third-highest position in the House Republican leadership.