Liz isn't your girlfriend!' GOP caucus meeting on whether to keep Cheney in leadership turns ugly

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By Matthew Chapman
Published February 03, 2021

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On CNN Wednesday, special correspondent Jamie Gangel gave insight into how the House GOP's caucus meeting on the future of Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) went off the rails — with one lawmaker in Pennsylvania making an analogy that several GOP women found offensive.

"[Minority Leader] Kevin McCarthy says he supports Liz Cheney remaining in her current leadership position, the number 3 Republican in the House," said anchor Wolf Blitzer. "She did vote, one of ten Republicans, to impeach the former president. She said this at the time. "The president of the United States summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and then lit the flame of this attack." Then she added, "There has never been a greater betrayal by a president of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution." So a lot of Republicans in the House say they totally disagree with what she said and what she did."

"That's true, Wolf, but it was supposed to be a vote of conscience," said Gangel. "It wasn't just Liz Cheney. There were ten of them. I will say this about Kevin McCarthy: he says he supports her. But — there's always this but — he has concerns. If he really supported her, we wouldn't be in this place today."

https://www.rawstory.com/sexist-republicans-liz-cheney/

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1. Kelly is a vile POS

Every time he opens his mouth it’s worse than the last time.

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2. who is Kelly?

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3. Mike Kelly

Rep Congress critter from western PA (16th district)right across the border from me.

He brought the challenge up in court against mail-in voting in PA.

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4. ah...thanks!

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5. It's a Repuke problem, not ours. They voted to keep her in leadership, & no need for us to defend

her. For the Repukes to throw one of their best chances for their future election, for the sake of the Aberration named DRUMPF, is an absurdity FOR THEM.

Fine that she cast one vote with a smidgen of integrity, but Repukes would be nutsy-foolish to dump her. On the level of cynical politics, it would be good for us if they did since it would put even more out in the open who and what they are (stupid and DRUMPFish).