Right now credible Republicans are as scarce as hens teeth and Liz Cheney is rarer still. She’s a Republican willing to openly defy Donald Trump and fight for the rule of law. Today she appeared on ABC and she castigated Trump for sitting in the dining room watching the Capitol riot on TV, when he could have walked a few steps to the briefing room and gone on live television at any moment to stop it.
Liz Cheney’s voting record appalls me, always has. But I have to say that I admire the fact that she’s got balls and she’s willing to tell the truth. Here’s another clip where Cheney says the most important thing is stopping Trump.
There are people who speculate that she’s looking for a run at the White House herself, as you heard. That may be the case. That would mean a battle in the party, literally for the soul of the party, of whether the old school GOP is still alive and kicking, or whether it’s now dead and the QAnon crazies, the MAGA faction, as exemplified by Trump, DeSantis, and a raft of others, now represent the face of the party.
And then there is the silent majority of the GOP, the ones who are clearly terrified to take a stand and try to stay out of it all, Kevin McCarthy being the poster child for that proposition. McCarthy, as you may recall, claims to not even know how to pronounce QAnon, while he does nothing to debunk it, and he claimed on the day of the Capitol riot that Trump was responsible and then walked it back immediately.
So that’s the face of the Republican party right now. The do-nothings, the performance artist crazies, and a couple of brave people, Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, actually willing to defend the rule of law.
Better those two than none at all. It’s sobering to think that out of all the reps in congress only two had the balls to get on the right side of history. And the track record in the Senate isn’t much better. Mitt Romney is the lone wolf who will openly take on Trump. Everybody else else falls in line, terrified of the base, or they make occasional anti-Trump noises, such as Mitch McConnell.
And how intriguing that Liz Cheney agrees with Hillary Clinton. Politics makes for strange bedfellows, I’ll tell you what.
