"Liz Cheney did not want the committee to investigate Ginni Thomas..." - Washington Post

[IcyPeas]

there was no mention of her today so I think Liz Cheney got her way.

Link to tweet

[wiggs]

1. thanks for finding. was wondering. nt

[catbyte]

2. It's becoming quite clear that Cheney wants to nail only Benedict Donald's ass to the wall.

Remember, she voted the party line 99% of the time. Apparently, she's fine with fascists in government, just not tfg if she wants Ginnie Thomas off the hook.

[SergeStorms]

3. For everyone singing the praises of Liz Cheney....

remember: Liz Cheney is a conservative republican to the core. She has selfish motives in her actions, not altruism.

[OnDoutside]

4. And can't people sing her praises for doing even that ?

[SergeStorms]

6. If you're a Democrat?

I wouldn't wager my Democratic bona fides on praising her, but that's just me.

[OnDoutside]

17. No one's asking you to vote for her, in fact no one's asking anything

of you.

There is, however, a bigger picture that will give a legitimacy to the J6 committee in the months and years to come, thanks to her (and Kinzinger). Her career is done, when she could have said nothing and got the benefits after McCarthy eventually gets kicked out. There are enough Democrats who are able to see the bigger picture, and do praise her.

[SergeStorms]

21. Like I said....

she has other motives, and today's republicans won't listen to a thing she says anyway. She makes Democrats feel good about the J6 committee. We think that lends credence to the J6 committee, but we're only fooling ourselves.

As for independents, who knows what the hell they're thinking about her, or if they're thinking about her at all.

Look, I'm not going to convince you and you're not going to convince me. We each have our own opinions, but the good thing is we both feel the same about the reason for the J6 committee: the insane orange menace and his rampant criminality.

Have a pleasant evening.

[Kali]

28. LOL!

Her career is done,

I don't think so.

[MOMFUDSKI]

9. She protected Ginni the Fat Lady in the Circus

and is using all this TV time because she will be running for pres in the near future. No altruism here. Once a repub; always a repub . . .

[iemanja]

23. She'll never be president and she knows it.

She considers the committee her life’s work. The passage from wapo is moths old. Thomas has since testified. This hating all Republicans regardless of whether they serve the interests of democracy is really boring. If it were up to many here, there would be no Republicans on the committee and it would have no credibility.

[OneCrazyDiamond]

5. She is a bred Puke.

Her father is the figurative Darth Vader. Just because she claims to agree with me about the Orange Child in public won't change that.

[emulatorloo]

7. Dunno, Bennie Thompson seemed to indicate Ginni's testimony was useless garbage.

Basically a live content-free Truth Social rant.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

10. I had no expectation of anything but bovine excrement from Ginni.

The only things you'd find in that head are what you find in online cesspools.

[Dorian Gray]

37. This is why Liz was right

Ginni is problematic as she's a bumbling dumb ass true believer. She has power in conservative circles bc she's married to a supreme court judge, but everyone looked at her communications as "that whackadoodle lady is texting us nonsense again!"

She connected trump with whackadoodle Sydney Powell. (She hurt him more than she helped him.)

I think J6 committee's purpose was to prove that Trump knowingly led the riots in order to maintain power for himself. While Ginni's texts show that she was on board with that (and maybe she should be investigated separately), she doesn't help narrow down Trump knowingly leading Jan 6th based on a lie.

[Lunabell]

8. Yeah, she's no damned hero.

Shd just has a vendetta against trump and his enablers. Must go deeper than just 1-6-21. Something more personal.

He's definitely gonna get hammered, but cheney is still a lying repug. Protecting her power.

[Hortensis]

13. Perhaps you missed it, but she sacrificed almost all her power

to this cause. Knowingly, almost completely predictably from the beginning.

I don't think putting one's political all into saving our democracy -- our sovereignty, our ability to control rather than obey government -- is a ridiculously unbelievable motivation. But if it was about something as pathetically small as pursuing a vendetta against tRump, she would have been in FAR better position to do that as the next, extremely powerful, Republican speaker of the house.

[leftstreet]

15. Meh. She'll have plenty of power as POTUS

That's what all of this is about - the establishment purging the GOP of Trumpists, then giving her the nod for a run

[jcgoldie]

16. She will never win a republican primary

They can't clean their base of Trumpism and she can't win without them.

[leftstreet]

18. We'll see n/t

[emulatorloo]

20. Get real. Is there some lefty version of Q-Anon I don't know about?

[leftstreet]

25. Do you consider The Guardian mainstream enough?

Liz Cheney considers run for president after Republican primary defeat
This article is more than 1 month old

Wyoming congresswoman says ‘It’s something I’m thinking about’ after losing to Trump-backed challenger

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/17/liz-cheney-president-2024-trump-republican-primary-defeat

There have also been articles at NPR, NBC News, etc. You can Google it

[emulatorloo]

27. I've seen the stories. But she cannot win a Republican primary. If she runs it will be to call

out Big Lie candidates on national TV and call out Trump himself if he runs.

She would not run to win, she is not a delusional person.

OTOH, it is kinda delusional to think she would win the Republican nomination.

There is zero basis in reality to believe that. Because Republican primary voters hate her.

[Hortensis]

41. As you say, Em. Factional hostility and delusion is no substitute

for informed good sense.

In future, the MAGA extremism that's taken over our conservative party will either eventually destroy itself (possibly in a national conflagration it brings on) OR conservative voters will reject it and turn back to the kind of fairly competent conservative leadership they once had. Cheney was a Republican leader before her fight to stop the MAGA traitors caused her party to eject her, and she will continue to lead out of office. She's ideologically extremely conservative, a believer.

Running for president is an obvious way for national leaders to stay out front, whether they believe they can win or not at all, leftstreet. Look at Sanders in 2020 as an example from our side: no chance of winning, and still no achievements to know him by as a senator, but as a result of running for president anyone who pays any attention still knows who he is. Whereas, if he'd just retreated to the back benches of the senate, or home, after his role in the 2016 tragedy (ongoing for almost 7 years now), he'd just be another Nader.

[iemanja]

24. She's Republican

Which to people here means she’s evil regardless of what she does. That whole attitude is a colossal bore.

[area51]

32. +1 n/t

[Solly Mack]

11. K&R

[milestogo]

12. Ginni Thomas is a delusional bitch and she would not be honest about anything.

[emulatorloo]

29. +1

[emulatorloo]

30. +1

[Irish_Dem]

14. Cheney has been protecting members of congress who were part of of 1/6.

No mention of the MOC who gave "tours" the day before.

Also no mention of who disabled the alarm buttons in Dem members of congress offices.

No mention of the pipe bomber.

Also she is not going after all the agencies who refused direct requests for help on 1/6 by capitol police
and congressional leaders.

Her clear goal is to bring down Trump but she is protecting the rest of the GOP.

[emulatorloo]

19. Uh huh. Cool conspiracy theory.

[leftstreet]

26. +1

[former9thward]

33. She is not the only member of the Jan 6 committee.

Any of the others could have mentioned any of those you mentioned.

[Irish_Dem]

36. She and the rest of the GOP are protecting their own.

They know high level US senators and representatives were involved in 1/6.

[former9thward]

43. There are many Democrats on the committee.

Including the Chair. The majority of the committee are Democrats. Regardless of what Cheney is doing, any of them are free to bring up your points. Why haven't they?

[Irish_Dem]

44. Good question.

There must have been an agreement beforehand about off limit topics.

[Brenda]

38. Yes.

Funny how a DUer keeps following around anyone who mentions those things calling them a conspiracy theorist. Isn't that a personal attack?

[Hotler]

40. I don't think they mentioned who the money people were behind this.

She's there to keep any eye on NEOCON interest for dad. The orange one must have been a threat to their wealth or plans for nation building.

[Irish_Dem]

42. Trump is hurting the GOP brand and attacking McConnell.

And yes in some way a threat to the Cheney money interests.

Good point, who funded the insurrection?

No one is mentioning this at all.

[iemanja]

22. The months-old passage is about Clarence Thomas

not Ginny. It says that Cheney didn't want "the justice" to be investigated without evidence.
I have heard of no evidence connecting Clarence Thomas to Jan 6. Did I miss something?

The passage is months old. Ginny Thomas has since testified, so either Cheney changed her mind or she was outvoted. This twit has absolutely nothing to do with the current state of the committee, but it justifies trashing Cheney, which helps the GOP discredit her and with her the committee. The participation of Cheney and Kinzinger gives these hearings credibility that would otherwise not exist if the committee were entirely Democratic.

[JI7]

31. That's about Clarence Thomas . Nothing about his wife

[tishaLA]

34. Rep Thompson said after her testimony that they knew most of it already

or something like that. Maybe Cheney is protecting her, maybe she's less central to it than we want to think, and/or maybe her participation didn't fit in with today's narrative, which honed in on some worthy targets besides "Ginni."

[oasis]

35. Liz need do nothing more for me than maintain her burning hatred for

Jim Jordan.

[SKKY]

39. I mean, she is at the end of the day a staunch Conservative...

...not sure why anyone would be surprised .