The Less Stupid Party

Washington Times;

House Republicans on Wednesday ousted Rep. Liz Cheney as House GOP conference chair and set the stage for her to be replaced with someone less keen on challenging former President Donald Trump’s stolen election claims and lingering grip on the party.

Ms. Cheney was removed from the post by a voice vote.

The leadership shakeup comes as House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy tries to keep members on message and unified in the run-up to the 2022 midterm elections.

“It comes down to this: A leader has to put their personal interests and biases aside when they are speaking for the Republican conference,” Rep. Tom McClintock said Wednesday on C-SPAN. “She has always been unwilling to do that.”

“It is about whether our leaders will speak for us, or they will attack us,” the California Republican said. “It is not all that complicated.”

No, it’s not.

Update: “I look forward to soon watching her as a Paid Contributor on CNN or MSDNC!”

30 Replies to “The Less Stupid Party”

  1. Trump thought that a plumber could drain the swamp, but what was actually called for was an exterminator.

    1. Liz got a pink slip, not the helicopter ride she should have gotten—and the US armed forces are even more unlikely to yield an Alberto Pinochet in 2021 than in 2017, never mind a George Washington.

    2. Nah, just calls for someone willing to learn how to govern and wield the levers of power given to him but it’s really hard and complicated and lots of people will fight you tooth and nail. Trump couldn’t be bothered cause it would have required him to admit he didn’t know what he was doing, surround himself with competent people to teach him and help him, and do the hard work of governing rather than grandstanding. He sorta figured it out in his last 6 months but too little, too late….

      1. slaw, Trump trusted pence, and that was his, big mistake. And as to the rest of yer post, FO!

  2. Good riddance.

    When will we learn how much the Chinese were paying her father in 2003?

    Because in retrospect, it’s hard to believe anybody ever thought the Iraq war was about protecting ISRAEL (which can take care of itself, thank you)—much less promoting liberal democracy in a region that has never known it and probably never will—and not keeping cheap oil flowing to Red China to fuel the Globalization Revolution (TM).

    1. There are many people that are so stupid that they think GWB invaded Iraq because the Saudi’s flew planes into the WTC.

  3. Next- Mitt Romney. He is worse than a RINO he is a Democrat posing as a Republican and undercutting nearly every Republican issue over the last 20 years.

    I hope to see strong conservative challengers to all of the 9 who voted to impeach.

  4. “it is not all that complicated” So true.

    Don’t attack your own base.
    Don’t give comfort and aid to the enemies of your base.
    Be honest.
    Do everything you can to keep the promises you made.

    Harper was a mixed bag. Not anywhere near as good as Trump. Way better than Romney, Cheney, … , who we talking about again?

    When a base rewards bad behaviours from the leaders it picks, they get more of it. If you keep donating and keep voting “that guy/party” even though no promises have been kept, you get more of that.

    1. In Alberta, Kenney is at least as bad as Cheney, Romney, anyone else you could name in the GOP. Ditto, for Moe in Saskatchewan. Pallister is next level after that even; he is competing with Newsom, Whitmer, and Cuomo over there.

      Now we come to Noem. Noem is a different matter; she is just out of her depth. That gender crap betrayal she pulled, she should have known better, or had someone around her that knew better. She generally does better than a lot of others, but she is not ready to graduate from the minors yet.

      The UCP needs to be killed for the level of betrayal Kenney has inflicted. Ditto for the Sask Party, and the PCs of Manitoba. Get a list of all current high mucky fuchs in the respective parties, and keep them (their dogs, their friends, their staffers, people they went to school with, … ) away from whatever next vehicle you choose.

      1. Pallister is a megalomaniac that calls his Conservative base “idiots”, boasts about how he and Dr. Mengele Roussin have decreed the harshest lockdown measures of anybody, and openly brags about how his Gestapo Covid-Cops have issued 1.7 million dollars in fines and tickets.
        Forget Covid, we need a plan to protect us from Pallister & Roussin.

      2. Let’s not forget that fat windbag in Ontario who actually brags he has brought in the toughest, most stringent lockdowns
        in the world as if that is something to be proud of. Sycophant Ford should hang his head in shame as he eagerly embraces
        every utterance from that scumbag, commie turdeau.

        1. “Let’s not forget that fat windbag in Ontario who actually brags he has brought in the toughest, most stringent lockdowns”

          Yes, The Great Yellow Hope: Rubber Blubber Dougie.

          He flips, flops, and cries just like turdo la doo. And he has the same concern about your freedoms too.

    2. “When a base rewards bad behaviours from the leaders it picks, they get more of it. If you keep donating and keep voting “that guy/party” even though no promises have been kept, you get more of that.”

      Well said. That’s why I can’t vote for the CPC next time around.

      1. Yep, I am so unhappy with the national CPC that Max/PPC will get my vote, if he finds a plausibly decent local candidate to run against Hedy Fry. I find it amazing that the CPC has any kind of healthy war chest, certainly none of my dimes among them. Certainly not from this westerner. When they lose yet again to the worst PM we have ever had, I want to be among those who wreck their supposedly “safe” western popular vote numbers. Wake-up CPC! Bye-bye base …

        Like Liz Chaney, you can trash your base overtly, or do it more covertly, as O’Toole has done, by supporting/promoting really bad policies (Paris Accord targets; continuing high immigration; Covid spending etc.) and failing to rise sufficiently to the occasion to stridently object to illegal border controls, gulag hotels, the disgusting budget, foreign policy embarrassments, ethics violations, bill C-10 etc., etc.)

  5. I became an Elise Stefanik enthusiast after her relentless questioning of the actors perpetrating the Russia hoax … however … it appears my enthusiasm was premature and based on incomplete knowledge.

    https://www.independentsentinel.com/elise-stefanik-voted-against-entire-america-first-agenda/

    So has McCarthy simply appeased the hatred for Cheney… while maintaining the GOPe status quo? Stefanik has been curiously quiet … most likely hidden away until the deed is done.

    1. Well, there are two kinds of people; the ones who learn from their mistakes, and the ones who keep repeating them. With Cheney, it became clear that she was incapable of change, could not shut up, etc. . Stefanik on those fronts, at least appears to be able to shut up. They needed a body immediately, and she was the best of the current volunteers, is my guess.

      She can either settle in, settle down, and just do the job. Or, she can be replaced just as quickly as Cheney.

      The job is to stay on message, and stay quiet outside of that. She may build her brand out of this. May tread water. May be gone before 2022. Too soon to tell.

    1. Elise represents the district just across the lake from me so I have been following her for a while. She is OK. She stood up to the Democrat BS on impeachment wholeheartedly. Yes, she is from New York State, so you get what you get there. At least she is not a paid up member of the cabal of NeverTrumpers in the Republican Party like Cheney, daughter of the war mongering dark prince himself.

  6. Good start. A little more scrutiny of McCarthy’s relationship with Pollster/lobbyist Frank Luntz is certainly warranted in my opinion. Luntz is no friend of Republicans.
    Stefanik not unlike Michelle Rempel, is a member of Klaus Schaub’s World Economic Forum which automatically puts her on my “Hmmm…well that’s kinda weird” list.
    She talks a good game…but that’s about it.
    Dan Crenshaw is also a member. For a group of conservatives who were all smiles back in the day when attending WEF soirees they certainly don’t like talking about it now. Funny that.
    Rempel even went to the trouble of having her mug scrubbed from the site forgetting the internet is forever.

  7. Kate, you have a unique way of capturing a story’s essence in a headline.

    Is there actually hope that the ‘Trumpsters’ can gain traction over the ‘RINO’s’ in the US? I guess the next 2 yrs will tell us that.

  8. The best way to neutralize the opposing political party is to simply take it over.
    Democrat’s campaigning as Republicans and acting like Democrats once elected.

    I’m thinking of joining the NDP or Liberal party for that reason.

  9. Only slightly less stupid. Ya gotta hand it to Democrats…they vote in lockstep and stick up for one another like nothing else although there are fractures developing between the progressives and the war mongering “moderates”.
    Republicans on the other hand always find new ways to shoot themselves in the foot.

    1. …. they vote in lockstep ….

      That is an iron rule of the socialists/fascists and communists.
      No other view or opinion is allowed.
      In some cases you’re just out, cancelled.
      In other cases you die.

      Pretty straight forward.
      You are in or not.

  10. Cheney wants to take her tiny cabal with her and form a new party. Like that doesn’t just fulfill one more Democrat wet dream, a split opposition. I bet there will be deep pocket donors all over that, that’s the problem. All hat and no cattle is one thing, but there is no shortage of billionaires willing to throw money into that hat.

  11. I love the sound of the D.C. swamp draining in the morning. It’s like getting rid of the gunk in the bottom of a Chev truck’s tranny pan after 250K with probably a similar burnt way overdue for a change smell.

  12. Meanwhile, in Canada, conservatives elect people who hate us to actually run the party (Kenney, O’Toole, Ford) and, even better, we keep doing it over (Scheer), and over (Prentice), and over (Brown), and over (Tory) again.
    What’s that stupid line again? Canadian conservatives are stuck on stupid.

  13. Rearranging the deck chair coordinators on the Titanic?

    2020 has been a gift.2021 just keeps getting better.
    Revelations.
    After revelation.
    Every assumption and preprogrammed lie we have been trained to make,about society and our place in it,has been exposed as lies.
    Individual rights and freedom?
    Personal liberty?
    Limited Government?
    Good Government?
    Public Education?
    Free Healthcare?
    Conservative Leaders(Supposedly defenders of personal rights and freedoms)?

    Nice picture Eh?
    The worst betrayal is internal.
    Most of us actually believed these things existed,in one form or another,most Canadians still do(Apparently).

    The evidence is before our eyes.
    Who shall we believe?
    Our “Gracious Government Minions?” or Our lying eyes.

    As ever we must consider our options,before acting.
    The staggering implosion of civilization,happening before us,has some good points.
    Choices get smaller each day.
    For us here in the West,a binary choice is steaming toward us.
    Independence?
    Or
    Venezuela?
    Without the warm weather even.

  14. “Let’s not forget that fat windbag in Ontario who actually brags he has brought in the toughest, most stringent lockdowns”

    Yes, The Great Yellow Hope: Rubber Blubber Dougie.

    He flips, flops, and cries just like turdo la doo. And he has the same concern about your freedoms too.

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