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Rep. Jim Jordan Seeks to Oust Rep. Liz Cheney from Leadership
According to this Politico article, Republican Rep. Jim Jordan plans to move to oust Rep. Liz Cheney from her position as the House Republican Conference Chair. Cheney previously announced her support for the impeachment of President Trump. According to the same article, the top two Republicans in the House — Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Minority Whip Steve Scalise — oppose impeachment.
This strikes me as a proper response to Cheney’s action. As I have posted previously, I find the calls for Trump’s impeachment to be a deranged overreaction. It is very disappointing to see some erstwhile conservatives and Republicans supporting such an action.
Rep. Cheney is entitled to her opinion and may vote as she sees fit. I think that it is quite proper for her House colleagues to remove her from a leadership position, if they disagree strongly with her on such an important issue.
I do expect that any Republican Congressmen or Senators who support impeachment to face a serious primary challenge in their next election. Rightfully so, in my view.
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Well, Antifa had a major role in the Capitol riot.
Michael Yon Interview With Joshua Philipp Of Epoch Times
@hoyacon: https://www.nationalreview.com/news/capitol-rioters-intended-to-capture-and-assassinate-elected-officials-prosecutors-say/
Politically motivated prosecutors also call Kyle Rittenhouse a mass shooter….and these people weren’t even armed.
lowtech redneck
Politically motivated prosecutors also call Kyle Rittenhouse a mass shooter….and these people weren’t even armed.
Prosecutors over charge and defense attorneys always claim 100% innocence. That’s just the way the system works. I mostly pointed Hoyacon to the article because his original claim was that there was “absolutely no evidence” of intent. There’s indeed evidence. It will be long time before exact criminality is determined but as I said many times, I’m fairly certain Chansley and others like him were up to no good in the Capitol Building. You don’t need criminal investigations to have some certainty of that limited conclusion.
On January 13, I said “There is absolutely no evidence yet of their intent.” On January 15, your article appeared.
As to the prosecutors interpretation of “intent”: If the rioters “intent” was to capture and assassinate elected officials, then why didn’t the rioters capture and assassinate elected officials.
If I ever followed through with what was my “intent” every time I was boxed in on the interstate by some ahrseclown actually doing the posted speed limit in the passing lane, the interstate would be littered with cars crashed into the guard rails.
Here’s the horned man in his own words on the 8th:
“We won by sending a message to the senators and the congressman, we won by sending a message to [Vice President Mike] Pence, OK, that if they don’t do as they’re oath to do, if they don’t uphold the Constitution, then we will remove them from office one way or another,” Chansley said in an interview after he left the Capitol, at Trump’s urging.