OP-ED: Liz Cheney the last GOP leader still standing tall
Martin Schram
Tribune News Service (TNS)
Today we are taking a new look at Liz Cheney’s latest performance of “Profiles in Courage” leadership. In any political era we have ever known, pundits would be fast-typing flourishing predictions that we may have just witnessed Chapter One in a book titled: “The Making of America’s First Woman President.”
Except we all are too smart to fall for that. We know we are trapped in an era of wackadoodle politics. Day and night, we have watched the leaders of the once-Grand Old Party breakdancing atop the quicksand of our wackadoodle politics. We watched their every flip and flop: Rebuking Donald Trump for his loopy, looping Big Lie that he won reelection by a landslide; but then rebuking Cheney for continuing to tell that truth and pushing her out of her House Republican leadership position. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who spoke truth about Trump after the Jan. 6
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Liz Cheney’s Profile In Courage
For her sign of telling the truth, she may lose her leadership post and her reelection. By Dave Cieslewicz - May 9th, 2021 02:58 pm //end headline wrapper ?>Liz Cheney. US House Office of Photography, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
It shouldn’t require massive amounts of political courage to simply acknowledge that a president who lost an election by seven million votes, well,
actually lost the election.
But it’s a measure of just how far gone the Republican Party is right now that Rep.
Liz Cheney of Wyoming will now almost certainly lose her House leadership position because she stubbornly clings to reality.
2021-05-09 22:06:01 GMT2021-05-10 06:06:01(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
WASHINGTON, May 9 (Xinhua) U.S. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy confirmed on Sunday that he supports Elise Stefanik to replace House Republican Conference Chair Congresswoman Liz Cheney, the third-ranking Republican in the House and one of the few in her party who refuses to march in lockstep with former President Donald Trump. Yes, I do, McCarthy told Fox News. Stefanik, a congresswoman from New York, thanked McCarthy for his support in a tweet later on Sunday. We want to be united and looking moving forward and I think that s what will take place, McCarthy said.
Kevin McCarthy publicly endorsed Rep. Elise Stefanik, a NY Republican
House Republicans could vote as early as Wednesday to remove Liz Cheney
Cheney is No. 3 House Republican who has come under fire for speaking against Donald Trump s claims that the presidential election was fraudulent
Stefanik has a more liberal voting record than Cheney, but she s spoken in favor of Trump and has earned his ringing endorsement