Liz Cheney Will End the GOP and Trump
She lost her primary, but she has plenty of time to make them rue the day they crossed her.
This is the best sound quality of her speech tonight that I could find on a short search.
Liz Cheney is not about to go quietly into the night, and while I normally disagree with all her priorities and votes, when it comes to the J6 hearings she has been an unflinching advocate for the truth and is determined to hunt it down at all costs. That hunt cost her her party and now her seat, but her “concession” speech, concedes nothing.
It is a clarion call to the nation that what happened on Jan 6th must never happen again and all people involved with it must be held accountable. It is also a statement of her utter resolve to continue to do the work of the J6 committee until she is forced to leave office in Jan.
And if the GOP thinks that once she leaves office she will stop hunting and working to make sure that the people that promote the Big Lie and back Trump’s ravings are taken down and removed from office, they are horribly mistaken.
Liz Cheney was raised by one of the most ruthless political operators our country has ever had. Dick Cheney laid the blueprints for what the GOP has become with his cutthroat attack ads, ideologically driven policies, and his ties to Big Business. His unrelenting ambition for power at all costs ended up with him being possibly the most powerful VP in our history.
And somehow the GOP thought it was a good idea to censure his daughter and then turn the entire party against her, and the voters of Wyoming followed their lead.
This will most likely end up being one of the most boneheaded moves they will ever make. Cheney’s connections run deep, and more and more Republicans are showing an increasing dislike of Trump and how he is weakening the party from within.
For instance, for those of you who don’t know, the RNC has been paying Trump’s legal bills.
Since October 2021, the Republican National Committee has paid nearly $2 million to law firms representing Trump as part of his defense against personal litigation and government investigations.
But an RNC official told ABC News that as soon as Trump would announce he is running for president, the payments would stop because the party has a “neutrality policy” that prohibits it from taking sides in the presidential primary.
And interestingly enough the GOP Senate campaign arm is cutting TV ads in several usually safe Red States…which has never happened before, like ever.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee is canceling $10 million worth of fall advertising reservations in Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — three states at the center of the GOP’s push to regain control of Congress. The New York Times, which reported the news on Monday, notes Republicans have been struggling to raise money as of late, as well as that the decision to pull ads for some of its top candidates could be tied to the party’s financial troubles.
The NRSC has cut the most money, $5 million, in Pennsylvania, where quack TV doctor Mehmet Oz is taking on Lt. Governor John Fetterman. Oz’s campaign has been fraught, to say the least, and current polling averages currently have him losing to the Democrat by more than 10 percentage points.
Oz narrowly edged out David McCormick in the state’s Republican primary behind the strength of former President Donald Trump’s endorsement. Members of the Republican establishment, and even Trump’s circle, had lined up to back McCormick for fear that Oz couldn’t beat Fetterman.
And there have been several reports that GOP candidates are struggling to raise funds. Hmm…why could that be?
But the numbers show that the NRSC has cut significantly more than it has booked back, indicating a potential cash strain at the committee. Second-quarter filings showed the DSCC had nearly twice the cash on hand as its Republican counterpart, $53.5 million to the NRSC’s $28.5 million.
Another Republican strategist referred to the recent cuts as “unreal,” noting that the NRSC had not eliminated any ad time in New Hampshire, where there won’t be a GOP nominee until mid-September — and where there’s no clear frontrunner in the meantime.
The NRSC earlier this month also spent a combined $1 million on ads in Washington and Colorado, two blue states that are considered unlikely but potential pickup opportunities for Republicans.
While the GOP committee is making a perplexing number of mid-August cuts, the organization could still book back that time over the next 2½ months. And between what the NRSC has already spent on television this cycle and what it has reserved for the rest of fall, the Republican committee has still purchased significantly more than the DSCC, though Democrats will likely reserve more air time in the coming weeks.
“While Rick Scott’s failed leadership of the NRSC continues to be one of Senate Democrats’ greatest assets,” said David Bergstein, spokesperson for the DSCC, “we know McConnell’s super PAC will have significant resources in the weeks ahead and we are continuing to take nothing for granted in each of our battleground races.”
Lol, they’re going to have to depend on McConnell’s SuperPac for money? If Mitch has to spend money to save Trump candidates he will not be pleased. He’s none too fond of Trump and he wants power at all costs, and he knows if RNC isn’t raising money and Trump is the reason why he will be pissed. Not to mention he doesn’t strike me as the kind of person that is okay with paying someone else legal bills.
I mean, he’s basically giving Trump the silent treatment. Trump called Mitch disloyal and made it sound like Mitch came begging to him for help winning Kentucky….uh yeah. McConnell didn’t need Trump’s help to win KY, like ever.
McConnell excoriated Trump at the end of his second impeachment trial for what he called a “disgraceful dereliction of duty.”
The Jan. 6 committee on Thursday played a clip of McConnell speaking on the Senate floor in which he said “there’s no question, none, that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day.”
“The people who stormed this building believed they were acting on the wishes and instructions of the president,” he said. “Having that belief was a foreseeable consequence of the growing crescendo of false statements, conspiracy theories and reckless hyperbole which the defeated president kept shouting into the largest megaphone on planet Earth.”
McConnell has since declined to speak about Trump or even mention him by name in public.
And there seems to be a bit of a rift between moderate GOP and Trump Cult Members. Could the hypocrisy of “being the party of Law Enforcement” while simultaneously calling for the heads of FBI agents and doxxing them to the public be getting a bit too much?
Hogan’s comments were followed by remarks from Arkansas’s Republican governor, Asa Hutchinson, who appeared on CNN on Sunday and partially mirrored his Maryland counterpart.
“If the GOP is going to be the party of supporting law enforcement, law enforcement includes the FBI,” Hutchinson, a former US prosecutor and private practice attorney, said.
He added: “We need to pull back on casting judgment on them … No doubt that higher ups in the FBI have made mistakes, they do it, I’ve defended cases as well, and I’ve seen wrong actions. But we cannot say that whenever they [FBI officers] went in and did that search that they were not doing their job as law enforcement officers.”
The comments marked a growing split on the extremist rhetoric from certain Republican party members following the execution of the search warrant. Many senior Senate Republicans have remained largely quiet in the wake of the unprecedented law enforcement action, while others have appeared on conservative news channels supporting baseless accusations that the FBI planted evidence during the search.
And how does Liz Cheney fit into all of this?
As I said, Cheney has deep roots in politics, and deep connections with donors who have been faithful to the GOP for, well, ever. It wouldn’t take a whole lot of work on her part to start widening these rifts, throwing money behind moderates, and ripping apart political alliances.
She has the skills and the knowledge to do so and she’s angry. Yes, she may have voted with Trump most of the time and had been loyal while he was in office, but things have changed.
She seems truly dedicated to the concept of saving the country from the increasingly unhinged members of her former party. Politics, as always, is not just about following the ebb and flow of what your constituents want, but it is also about doing all you can to control your part of the river of power.
There are tipping points being reached within the GOP, and many of the experienced power brokers are losing interest in cowing, scraping, and bowing to Trump’s rhetoric and trying to cover up his messes, and those power brokers will eventually break him. It may take some time, but it will happen. He is becoming more of a handicap than a benefit and I, for one, hope Liz Cheney is at the forefront of his, and his cult’s reckoning.
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