MoscowMitch defends Liz Cheney

[malaise]

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/01/politics/liz-cheney-mitch-mcconnell/index.html

Rep. Liz Cheney, under fire from former President Donald Trump and his staunchest defenders, is picking up support from some influential Republicans as her allies close ranks and resist the effort to oust her from the third-ranking spot in House GOP leadership.

On Monday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was the latest Republican to give her a boost, saying in a statement to CNN that she had "the courage" to act on her convictions in the aftermath of her vote to impeach Trump last month on a charge he incited the deadly insurrection that ransacked Capitol Hill on January 6.
"Liz Cheney is a leader with deep convictions and the courage to act on them," McConnell said. "She is an important leader in our party and in our nation. I am grateful for her service and look forward to continuing to work with her on the crucial issues facing our nation."
The statement comes as a cross-section of GOP lawmakers -- from top Republicans in Senate leadership like fellow Wyoming Republican Sen. John Barrasso to some conservative House Freedom Caucus members like Rep. Chip Roy of Texas -- have publicly defended Cheney in the face of the onslaught from Trump defenders eager to see her defeated. Last week, Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, a close Trump ally, traveled to Wyoming to rally against Cheney, with the former President's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., calling into the event and demanding she be defeated in next year's primary.

[leftieNanner]

1. Mitch is truly straddling the abyss

One foot in GOP Land and one in Cuckoo Land.

Good luck with that one.

[bullimiami]

4. i think mitch knows the party of trump cannot be his party to control, just to go along with.

[malaise]

7. No he jumped off loony land

GOP's McConnell blasts 'loony lies' by Ga. Rep. Greene



Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell denounced newly elected Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Monday, calling the far-right Georgia Republican's embrace of conspiracy theories and “loony lies" a "cancer for the Republican Party.”

“Somebody who’s suggested that perhaps no airplane hit the Pentagon on 9/11, that horrifying school shootings were pre-staged, and that the Clintons crashed JFK Jr.’s airplane is not living in reality,” said McConnell, R-Ky. "This has nothing to do with the challenges facing American families or the robust debates on substance that can strengthen our party.”

The statement comes as House Democrats are mounting an effort to formally rebuke Greene, who has a history of making racist remarks, embracing conspiracy theories and endorsing violence directed at Democrats. It also puts pressure on House Republican leaders to discipline her.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2021/02/01/gops-mcconnell-blasts-loony-lies-by-ga-rep-greene

[applegrove]

2. Mitch + gravitas? Did he manage not to tee hee?

[Ferrets are Cool]

3. You can't have your cake and eat it too McTurtle

As the bible says, Revelation 3:16 - So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth.

You can't have it both ways Mitchiepoo.

[sheshe2]

5. Unlike you, Mitch.

"Liz Cheney is a leader with deep convictions and the courage to act on them," McConnell said.

However..I sure hope you see many convictions before your clock runs down. And I sure as hell have a different meaning for the word 'convictions' than you implied.

[malaise]

6. Anderson Cooper is about to tell us what he said about the

latest ReTHUG lunatic

[Irish_Dem]

8. Mitch is struggling to retain power. Things are spinning out of control for him.

[malaise]

9. Good

Let them devour one another

[Irish_Dem]

10. My heart breaks that Mitch is having a sad. And losing control of his minions.

Not really.

[malaise]

11. Hehehehe

Think about it - Donald Trump and ReTHUGs tried to over throw the results of an election and they are not troubled about the loss of life, the injuries or the fact that they came to kill the Speaker and hand the VP in the halls of COngress.

There are no words for these monsters.

[Irish_Dem]

12. Absolutely they do not care. They never care about the loss of life, income, freedom that they cause

on a daily basis. The American people, America, democracy mean nothing to them, nothing at all.
The only thing that matters to them is power and profit for themselves.

[malaise]

14. That's the truth

[Hermit-The-Prog]

13. Imagine: Moscow Mitch is now the radical left in the Radical Republican Reich.

Things have gone coup-coup in GOPerland.

[malaise]

15. Amazing indeed

I still detest that scumbag

[uponit7771]

16. WOW ... Moscow Mitch is really tryna take the kGOP back. It aint happening, the deal with the

... devil has been made and the devil wants his payment

[malaise]

17. Good

He's a dishonest, unprincipled piece of shit