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Flake added: “No, this is not the plot of a movie set in an asylum” but rather “your contemporary Republican Party, where today there is no greater offense than honesty.”
House Republicans are expected to meet behind closed doors on Wednesday morning and vote to remove Cheney from her role as the GOP conference chair, the third-ranking position in their leadership.
“Every one of us who has sworn the oath must act to prevent the unraveling of our democracy. This is not about policy. This is not about partisanship. This is about our duty as Americans, Cheney told her colleagues in a floor speech late Tuesday.
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I have stayed away from the prolonged martyrdom of Rep. Liz Cheney, who lost her gig on Wednesday morning, in no small part because I do not find the event as signifying as many of my colleagues do. In truth, all the Republicans in the House did was swap out one No. 3 in their leadership roster for another, and brawls in the monkey house bore me. In addition, there was nothing remotely surprising about anything that happened. After all, people were throwing roses in Cheney’s path for all of her long trudge towers Golgotha in the meeting room on Wednesday for months now.