Damn the Republicans for turning a Cheney into a chapter in

[Baitball Blogger]

Profiles in Courage!

Okay. I can go back to sleep now.

On Edit: I meant Profiles in Courage.

Damn. Pence, too.

[ColinC]

1. Pretty much. These fuckers basically helped burn down the house

And are now getting due credit for trying to put out the fire.

[Baitball Blogger]

2. Doesn't it turn your stomach the way they go along with their gang of

liars and thieves, until "the word gets on the street." And then, when public opinion is about to turn, they find their way to dry land.

Like someone else on DU pointed out, while Pence kept his mouth shut, our country was put into a state of high anxiety over a potential Constitutional crisis.

[ColinC]

4. Yep. I'm not saying I don't want their help putting out the fire

(we need all we can get). But I would also like to see them prosecuted for arson for starting it.

[DeSmet]

3. Pence needs to testify

to the FBI about Trump's role in this seditition.

[Baitball Blogger]

12. +1

[Walleye]

5. Cheney is a true profile in courage, Pence not so much

[agingdem]

6. Liz hates Trump, McCarthy, Jordan

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more than she hates Democrats…and that makes her courageous?…no

[Walleye]

7. Do you think she's not getting death threats? Do you think she has a future in the Republican Party?

I think she is the kind of person JFK had in mind when he wrote the book

[Karma13612]

8. And you can see from the look on his face that

Kinzinger is one unhappy person. Yes, I know he is still a Republican (therefore anti-democratic) but he looks miserable.

I imagine he is getting threats as well, from republicans.

[agingdem]

13. Of course she's getting death threats

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but today’s Republican Party didn’t just magically appear and Liz and family are “woven” into the fabric of the party…she may hate trump but she voted over 90% for his restrictive agenda…and she voted against the John Lewis voting rights bill carve out…we Dems have a habit of deifying Republicans when they have a moment of conscience and do the right thing…I think it’s a habit we need to break…

[Walleye]

14. We know all of that. Nobody's deifying her. We are praising this one act of courage.

The us vs them two group orientation is not always helpful

[The Jungle 1]

9. Cheney is still a conservative repuke

Do not forget that fact.

[uponit7771]

10. She still votes against pro democracy laws, she just doesn't like Putin's Whore. She gets notice but

... praise from me

[obamanut2012]

11. I will give LIz Cheney the nod, not Pence

He had to fucking ask Dan WQuayle if he should do it. He knew he shouldn't do it.

Cheney is a hardcore RWer whom I disagree with on everything, but she is actually being a real patriot here, and it's destroyed her Congressional career, and if the wolves come, they will come for her at the same time as Pelosi and AOC.

[JHB]

15. Don't leave out Romney