McCarthy Stands By Cheney After House GOP Petition To Oust Her From Leadership | Talking Points Memo

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) reportedly made clear on Thursday that he opposes the petition that President Trump’s allies in the House Republican conference circulated the day before urging its third-ranking member to resign from her leadership position after she came out in favor of Trump’s impeachment.


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WTF. GOPers are trying to cancel Liz Cheney? What was all about diversity of ideas and shit?

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Enjoy the leopard, Kevin.

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Republicans in disarray!

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He knows that a Trumpist G.O.P. will be a minority party forever, but having handed out a whole lot of pitchforks and torches, he’s going to have trouble rewriting the narrative.

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Boy they are out of control when they try to oust a
Cheney for being too moderate!

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McCarthy is trying to curry favor with Cheney in the hope the she doesn’t waterboard and disembowel him on her path to House minority leader.

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If one has two faces, can one afford to sacrifice one face to the leopard?

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Oh, that is just the BananaRepublican thought police.

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This should be a major concern that a “moderate” Republican will now be defined as a Republican who did not support sedition like in the past when “moderate” Republican was defined as one that did not oppose abortion to save the life of the mother.

That is Dick’s daughter who is a hard right Republican and supporter of Trump and his racism and greed must not suddenly be considered in the center of American politics because she stopped short of advocating overthrow of democracy.

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She pretty much burned that to the ground on Wednesday.

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Good for McCarthy. Now! Let’s talk about something I think is mildly interesting: There were no hideous atrocities today, mostly, as far as I can tell. It’s like a new-normal version of a slow news day. Even the people who were planning hideous atrocities because that’s what “follow your bliss” means to them, they’re all “Don’t go to any protests and commit atrocities! It’s a false-flag FBI thing! Stay home!” They may be reading with interest the stories of all the heroic supporters of Donald Trump Grand Emperor of the United States getting grabbed off the street and thrown into the lockup preparatory to trials and incarceration. It makes a fella think! Anyway it was a pretty quiet day and I’ll take it.

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“We are receiving the message loud and clear that what happened yesterday is a true travesty for Wyoming and the country.”

Secession, torments my heart
Secession, keeps us apart
Secession, why torture me

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Goes nice with a full bodied cabernet, right?

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Judging from the disabilities that afflicted his predecessors as caucus leader when they went up against the party’s fanatics, it’s unlikely McCarthy has a happy tenure awaiting him.
I’ll pause to play the world’s saddest song on its tiniest violin.
Done.

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“Why can’t I acquit you?!”

(h/t Brokeback Mountain)

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She’s trying to divide and conquer. trump blew up the party, someone will have to put it back together.

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BREAKING: The Republican Party

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She looks so much like Dick it scares me.

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In the category of ‘I’m not going down by myself’

Capitol rioter gave FBI footage that featured himself, authorities say | TheHill

More than likely will identify quite a few more insurrectionists.

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