by MPeriod
Posted 3 years ago
Dick Cheney, the former vice president, and Liz Cheney, the third-ranking Republican in the House of Representatives have unleashed a strong rebuke of President Trump. Liz Cheney a fast rising star in the GOP, and possible presidential contender herself has, unlike other possible presidential contenders who have attempted to cozy up to the President in public even as they admit in private his claims are nonsense, decided to publicly rebuke the President.
Cheney, a 54-year-old congresswoman from Wyoming, released a 21-page memo that excoriated the attempts by some Republicans in Congress to challenge the election results, which they plan to do on Wednesday. The memo included a thorough compendium of all the ways in which state and federal courts have dismissed and rejected claims of cheating.
Rep. Cheney, in a response, dripping with sarcasm, to Senator's Ted Cruz's suggestion that Congress should set up a commission to decide the election said in her memo: “Did those proposing a new commission realize that they were in essence proposing to delay the inaugural? Did they mean to set up a new future precedent where the inaugural is delayed and we have an ‘Acting President?’ For how long? Who decides when that process is over? Will that require another Act of Congress? Could the Acting President veto any such future Congressional action? If Congress has authority to create such a commission now, are state elections, recounts and state law legal challenges just ‘make-work’ until Congress gets around to investigating and deciding who should be President?”
But the Cheney's are not alone the same day she released her memo all 10 living former secretaries of defense, democrat and republican, wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post, that was organized by her father, the former Vice President, Dick Cheney, warning that any attempt to use the U.S. military to contest the election would take the country into “dangerous, unlawful and unconstitutional territory.” It also said that any members of the military who participated in such an undemocratic action “would be accountable, including potentially facing criminal penalties, for the grave consequences of their actions on our republic.”
Such public rebukes from Republicans of a sitting US Republican president is rare. In fact Ronald Regan's 11th commandment was "Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican." But it seems as the GOP has moved from a small government Reagan party to the Trump based conspiracies and tweets. Things have changed, as the President himself has spent much of the past week threatening Republicans who failed to fall in line behind his attempts to overturn the election. But it seems now one of the most prominent Republican families have finally had enough and are pushing back.
Topic: Politics
Tags: election fraud Donald Trump Liz Cheney