The Liz Cheney Saga Continues

By Rich Kozlovich 

I've been posting about what I'm calling the Liz Cheney Saga for some weeks now, and decided this week to keep updating the piece by Rebecca Downs with links to this story, which will follow in the middle of this piece and then all my links will be at the end.

On Saturday these pieces appeared:

Liz Cheney Is Not the Boss of Republican Voters - By Ned Ryun May 7, 2021 - A party is what people say it is, so become the dominant force in the party. Push the pendulum in the direction of America First policies.  As CNN, the Washington Post, and the rest of America’s finest propaganda outlets lecture Republicans that Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) must stay in GOP House leadership because she is a “truth-teller” (or whatever miserable lie they’re currently peddling), voters know she’s just a useful idiot of the Left. She brings nothing to the table for Republicans except lies (the Russian bounty hoax), ignorance (the 2020 elections were free and fair and January 6 was an “insurrection”), mediocrity (a miserable fundraiser and communicator), all of which are smothered with a heaping serving of neocon warmongering gravy.

There is absolutely no constituency for someone like Cheney inside the Republican Party, except maybe at a table also seating Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) and Meghan McCain. 

The propagandists, of course, are doing propping up Cheney for a reason. How better to distract from the far-Left misery of the Biden Administration than to gleefully highlight the No. 3 Republican in the House going on MSNBC and CNN to bash the caucus she’s supposed to be promoting?...........

Cheney, the Caucus, and the Crux - By Thaddeus G. McCotter May 7, 2021- It is the role of the U.S. House GOP conference chairman to attack Democrats and aid Republicans, not vice versa.  As of this writing, there is considerable doubt as to whether U.S. Representative Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) should continue in her House Republican leadership position as its conference chairman. One scenario has her losing a caucus vote; another portends she will walk away from this internecine GOP battle and leave the position rather than betray her principles, most notably her opposition to the past and continued role of Donald Trump within the party. In either scenario, Cheney’s expected departure will be hailed by the corporate leftist media as the latest Republican martyrdom in the noble cause of resisting the cult of the “bad orange man.”

Is it? Cheney is not being run out of Congress. That is solely a matter for her Wyoming constituents to decide next year. Nor is Cheney being removed from her committee assignments; and her congressional office budget is not being reduced. Cheney is on the cusp of being replaced as conference chairman. Nothing more, nothing less. It is decidedly not the end of our free republic or of the Republican Party.

The conference chairman of the House Republican caucus is responsible for the development and implementation of the party’s unified messaging. In many ways, it is as if the House GOP is hiring one of its own to act as its PR director. One cannot overestimate how critical this position is for the House GOP conference...............

Here's the piece I posted by Rebecca Downs, Liz Cheney Keeps Making This Worse on Herself, which contains all the recent links I've been updating, and now will be the repository for all my Liz Chaney links.

Rebecca Downs May 05, 2021 

 

As Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), the chair of the House Republican Conference, keeps finding herself in the news, it appears inevitable that the vote to oust her from this leadership role is fast approaching. She has turned out to be her own worst enemy on this as she lashes out against the GOP, especially former President Donald Trump. The Washington Post published her op-ed on Wednesday, "Liz Cheney: The GOP is at a turning point. History is watching us." 

Coverage to do with Rep. Cheney's political future, or lack thereof, is full of members, named and unnamed, sharing that she will likely lose her leadership title. Perhaps the most thoughtful perspective, a rather simple one, is that what happens to Liz Cheney is up to Liz Cheney. 

Over the weekend, when the congresswoman was finding herself increasingly in the news, I reported on the take that Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) had, the chair of the Republican Study Committee. He told Axios when asked if Cheney will still have her position in a month that "I don't know" and "That's up to her. I think a lot of us would like to see her join the team, be on the same team, same mission, the same focus. And at this point, that’s what many of us are questioning."...........To Read More....

•  …Liz Turns to Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post to Save Herself from Political Defeat
•  Kasich: GOP Removing Cheney Will Make Her a ‘Martyr’ — She’ll Get Followers
• Report: Republicans plan to remove Liz Cheney from leadership within weeks
• Liz Cheney Is Reportedly Looking for the Exit and It Cannot Come Soon Enough -  She has become a distraction extraordinaire. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) simply cannot get out of her own way and the hour is getting quite late for this sort of hysterics. It’s not hard, lady. Just keep your mouth shut. And if you can’t, you must go. It’s the same protocol for government workers. If you can work with a new administration, fine. If you want to act like Dumbledore’s Army and all deep state in trying to hamstring a new government, not only should you leave—you might be engaging in acts of treason. The intelligence community had scores of folks like this leaking and peddling lies about Russian collusion that never happened. I’m not saying Cheney is a traitor. No. But her inability to read the room is one of the main reasons why she has to go.............. Asking the Wrong Question About Liz Cheney
• Don’t ask why we need to oust her. Ask why she was ever in leadership in the first place. - The real scandal isn’t that Liz Cheney is no longer going to be a member of the Republican leadership. It’s that a mediocre veteran of one House term who was far out of step with her party’s voters ever got there in the first place. And that’s something for which McCarthy has to answer.
• Exclusive – William Perry Pendley: It’s Time for Liz Cheney to Come Home
• NYT Columnist's Op-Ed About Liz Cheney Shows How the Left Really Feels About Her...And It's Not Shocking
• Bernie Sanders Goes to Bat for Liz Cheney: GOP Is an ‘Anti-Democratic Cult’ - My Take - And of course having Bernie on your side makes all the difference to the Republican base!  Right?
• Liz Cheney Is Not the Boss of Republican Voters  
• Cheney, the Caucus, and the Crux
  

In order to show just how out of touch Liz Cheney really is,  here are the articles I've linked in the past, and remember, this has been going on since January 2021. 

 

Liz Cheney, emboldened - February 8, 2021 By Monica Showalter - Fresh from controversy — and GOP censure — for her sparsely followed vote on impeachment, House Republican Conference leader Rep. Liz Cheney is putting some new plans on the table for Getting Trump.  Speaking on Chris Wallace's Fox News show, she suggested that the impeachment vote wasn't enough.  Now she's joining the Democrats to look for criminal prosecution of President Trump............

Chaney vs. Green: Republican Leadership is, at the Best of Times, A Leaky Vessel - By Rich Kozlovich  February 5, 2021 - Over the last few days there’s been a lot of fury in the Congress over the actions of some of it's members. First we had many Republicans who were outraged at Rep. Liz Cheney for voting in support of impeaching former President Trump, a clearly unconstitutional action. The Congress has no authority to try anyone for anything, especially a former sitting President of the United States.  The Congress can only remove him from office.  

If a former POTUS has committed a crime during his time in office or after, that is the responsibility of the executive branch. If ever there was a posted child for political nepotism, it's Liz Chaney.  Her family spent their lives in Washington, she has to know the Congress has no Constitution authority here, how can she not know it? Yet she jumps up and declares something we know to be absolutely untrue: ..............

 The RINOs Never Learn - Kurt Schlichter Jan 21, 2021 - The squishes are almost childlike in their belief that if they only submit to the Establishment hard enough by offering gooey platitudes everything will work out fine for them, like a kid who keeps hoping that this time Santa’s really leaving a pony under the tree. But some people on the right need to understand and accept that there’s no kraken, and others on the right need to understand and accept that there’s no pony.

The Jeb! Faction thinks it’s riding high now. Please clap as you see the media elevate them, and why not? They do the Establishment’s bidding. Liz Cheney gave what used to be her prestige over to Impeachment II: Electoral Boogaloo and got a lot of praise from the libs for that, followed by more hatred from the libs. ................ 

Liz Cheney faces ouster moves in GOP Congress and in Wyoming - January 19, 2021 By Monica Showalter -  House GOP conference chair, Rep. Liz Cheney, is finding herself unpopular. Her largely unfollowed-move to impeach President Trump has led to more than one move for her ouster.   On Jan. 12, she put this battle cry...  and attracted all of nine GOP followers................

"Much more will become clear in coming days and weeks, but what we know now is enough. The President of the United States summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack. Everything that followed was his doing." 

'I'm Not Going Anywhere': Liz Cheney Responds to Calls for Her Resignation From Leadership  - By Monica Showalter -  Wyoming's Rep. Liz Cheney has jumped right in to convict President Trump in a House second impeachment, based on the riot that went down on Jan. 6 in the Capitol. According to her statement, via Deadline Hollywood:

She's certainly getting her 15 minutes of fame and will no doubt become a high priced lobbyist in the near future continuing to muddy the waters.  As for all those voting her out now:  They will be attentive to her clients positions in the future.  Why?   Because politics is about inter-personal beneficial interlocking relationships.  Meaning backscratching for money and power.  If her clients have big bucks to send to these politicians, they find a way to justify listening.