MSNBC Liberals Berate GOP Over Liz Cheney Ouster, Warn of Damage to Two-Party System By Susan Jones | May 12, 2021 | 8:56am EDT
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) says in embracing Trump, the GOP has abandoned the rule of law. (Photo: Screen capture)
(CNSNews.com) - As Congressional Democrats seek to consolidate their power by attempting to federalize elections, make D.C. a state, pack the Supreme Court and end the filibuster moves that would squelch Republicans for years to come it was surprising to hear a defense of the two-party system coming from liberal pundits on MSNBC this Wednesday morning.
The conversation revolved around the anticipated ouster of House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney, whom Democrats and media activists are hailing as a hero, a woman of true integrity, for her outspoken anti-Trump stance.
McCarthy Skirted Ethics Rules To Rent Pollsterâs Luxury Pad
A watchdog group has filed an ethics complaint against House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, accusing him of lying about a luxury apartment he rented from a top Republican pollster. This comes as he works to remove the only woman on his leadership team for telling the truth about Donald Trump.
The Campaign for Accountability asked the Office of Congressional Ethics on Friday to investigate whether the California Republican broke House rules by renting a room in Frank Luntz s Washington, D.C., condominium at below-market rates â which could have been an illegal and unreported gift.
There is little doubt that House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) will be stripped of her office on Wednesday, as Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has made clear he has lost confidence in her. But on Monday s edition of CNN s OutFront, anchor Erin Burnett laid out how even some Republicans particularly the wing of the party critical of Trumpism are recoiling at the optics of such a move. In an irony, McCarthy writing to his Republican colleagues tonight, wrote Burnett. I quote him: We are a big tent party and unlike the left, we embrace free thought and debate. Let s talk about this. McCarthy is kicking out Cheney for having a different opinion. He says it is for a big tent party that embraces free thought and debate. Wow, he has in polite terms. Liz Cheney says the election was free and fair and Trump is responsible for what happened on January 6th. These are facts, and as a point of fact, once upon a time, Cheney and McCarthy agreed on facts on the cru
What s Trump s endgame in his crusade against the election results?
As far as Trump is concerned, power was taken from him, so power must be returned to him. That s bonkers, but he doesn t appear to care.
BySteve Benen
One of the principal GOP criticisms against House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo. is that she s been preoccupied with telling the truth about the 2020 presidential election. It s a foolish argument for a variety of reasons, but it s nevertheless at the heart of the effort to purge Cheney from her leadership post.
It was against this backdrop that Donald Trump the one many congressional Republicans are desperate to impress and satisfy published this item last night to his weird new blog.
As a plot twist, the concept of reversing roles, or undergoing major and unexpected transformations, is hardly new. Tom Hanks’s breakthrough role was in
Big, the 1988 film in which he played a little boy who wished he could be an adult, only to wake up the next day in the body of a grown man (the role won Hanks an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor). The same theme was used in
13 Going on 30 with Jennifer Garner as the teenage girl who made the leap in age. Then of course there was the 2003 movie
Freaky Friday, in which Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan played a mother and daughter with a difficult relationship who one day find themselves having traded bodies and lives.