No. of Recommendations: 4
A few snips from a lengthy review of reviews of Liz Cheney's new book about the OrangeJesus' GOP.
..... Cheney already told whatever she knew to investigators on the January 6 Committee and to federal prosecutors. The cases have in no way been prejudiced by her withholding this information from the public. ......
Cheney tears into former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), blasting him for kissing Trump’s ring at Mar-a-Lago after January 6 because he was worried the former president was “depressed” and “not eating.”
She takes aim at the current Speaker, Mike Johnson (R-LA), who coerced House GOP members to sign onto a legal brief, warning that Trump would later review whose names were on it.
She rakes Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) for arguing that, despite the lack of any evidence the election was stolen, “The only thing that matters is winning.” And she singles out Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for abandoning his duty for the sake of personal ambition.
According to early accounts of the book, Cheney collectively and unflinchingly labels the GOP “enablers and collaborators” for “the most dangerous man ever to inhabit the Oval Office.” While mocking him as “Orange Jesus” behind his back, Congressmembers dutifully did his bidding in public.
Cheney may also now become a witness for Jack Smith. She found herself accidentally included in a White House surrogates call where Trump allies detailed plans to overturn the election using Mike Pence to obstruct or delay the vote count. Those on the call are probably wondering what specifically Cheney has told prosecutors.
Kevin McCarthy, Tool of the Era- She thought it must have been a fake photo. There was no way that Kevin McCarthy would travel to Mar-a-Lago, she believed, to stand side-by-side with the guy who just tried to overthrow the government. So she confronted McCarthy about it.
“Mar-a-Lago?” she asked, dumbfounded. “What the hell?”
McCarthy’s excuse was so lame it almost defies belief. “Trump’s not eating,” McCarthy said to her, “so they asked me to come see him.”
“You went to Mar-a-Lago because Trump’s not eating?” she asked.
“Yeah, he’s really depressed,” McCarthy answered.
The book mentions something else that should be of no small interest to prosecutors. Two days after the 2020 election, McCarthy told Cheney that he had spoken to Trump. “He knows it’s over,” he told her. “He needs to go through all the stages of grief.”
..... McCarthy went on Fox that same day and claimed that “President Trump won this election,” Cheney writes, “McCarthy knew that what he was saying was not true.”
Mister Johnson’s naughty list...
Johnson had worked to gain support among House GOP members for an amicus brief to be filed with the Supreme Court. He emailed his conference that he’d spoken with Trump who would be “anxiously awaiting the final list to review.”.... What would happen to those who didn’t sign on? Would they become targets of his tweets and his angry MAGA base?
.... “He appeared especially susceptible to flattery from Trump and aspired to be anywhere in Trump’s orbit,” she wrote. “When I confronted him with the flaws in his legal argument, Johnson would often concede, or say something to the effect of, ‘We just need to do this one last thing for Trump.’”
Cheney singled out Jim Jordan as one of the worst of the Trump acolytes and loyalists. On top of saying the quiet part out loud by claiming, despite no evidence of election fraud, “The only thing that matters is winning,” Jordan was also “dismissive” of the legal process for challenging the election results and “didn’t seem to think the rules mattered,” according to Cheney.
.... Cruz was the primary mover behind a plan to set aside the Electoral College vote count on January 6, arguing for a commission to investigate election results that had already been recounted and recertified. Cruz called publicly for a delay of 10 days—by no small coincidence, the same amount of time others named within the conspiracy to overturn the election had pressed for.
.......One colleague told her he stayed publicly loyal to Trump because he was afraid for the safety of his wife and baby if he spoke out, a claim now buttressed after credible death threats went out to opponents of Jim Jordan’s speakership candidacy as well as to their families and staff.
Another Congressman, Mark Green (R-TN), signed on to Johnson’s amicus brief but remarked, aloud and to no one specifically, “The things we do for the Orange Jesus.”
I predict Liz Cheney will simply be dismissed as a RINO, tool of the left, etc.
No. of Recommendations: 0
Is she gonna write a book about the honor of her Father and his NeoCon buddies and how they are itching to get back into the driver's seat?
No. of Recommendations: 4
McCarthy’s excuse was so lame it almost defies belief. “Trump’s not eating,” McCarthy said to her, “so they asked me to come see him.”
“You went to Mar-a-Lago because Trump’s not eating?” she asked.
“Yeah, he’s really depressed,” McCarthy answered.
OMG, funny in a 'make-me-puke' sort of way. And 'lame' hardly describes its ludicrousness.
Kudos to Liz Cheney for having the guts to speak the truth while most of the GOP is a bunch of Quislings afraid of Trump and the zombie base they've worked years to create. A base that will unquestioningly swallow all their lies, but also destroy those who dare speak honestly.
Most of the real Republicans have given up on the erstwhile Grand Old Party.
