Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wy.), 56, had the nerve to denounce House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) after her Aug. 15 drubbing against 59-year-old neophyte attorney Harriet Hageman, a virtual unknown other than support by 76-year-old President Donald Trump. Cheney once won her seat with 70% of the vote, now can barely make 30% of Wyoming Republicans after her obsession with Trump destroyed her political career. Can you imagine, after losing to Hageman in a whopping landslide, Cheney preaches to the liberal choir at ABC News, saying that McCarthy isn’t fit to head the House of Representatives? If that’s not sour grapes then what is? Cheney lost her leadership role in the Republican National Conference after voting in 2021 to impeach Trump for “incitement of insurrection.” Cheney claims McCarthy was “unfaithful to the Constitution” because of his support of Trump.
Cheney’s obsession with Trump slapped the Wyoming Republican Party in the face. Cheney thinks everyone in the Party shared her hatred of Trump, something obviously not true or she wouldn’t have lost by a landslide to Hageman. “Well, my view about Kevin McCarthy are very clear: Speaker of the House is the second in line to the presidency. It requires somebody who understands and recognizes their duty, their oath, their obligation,” Cheney told ABC “This Week” with George Stephanopoulos. Cheney doesn’t see that her disloyalty to the GOP robbed her of a future in politics. It isn’t that Cheney had strong opinions about Trump, it’s that her obsession with Trump left her incapable to managing any other issue. Now that she’s a lame duck, Cheney can’t control her ego, knowing she’s destroyed her career. Cheney’s GOP constituents found her deeply disloyal to the party.
In her Aug. 15 concession speech, Cheney said her work was not done, planning to do everything possible of the Jan. 6 House Select Committee to prevent Trump from running for president. Cheney’s beat down in her primary indicates that she has zero chance in the Republican Party of seeking the 2014 nomination. Can you get any more arrogant to think after her recent drubbing that she could run for anything in the GOP, certainly not the party’s nomination for president. “Ant he’s been completely unfaithful to the Constitution, and demonstrated a total lack of understanding of the significance and the importance of the role of Speaker of the House. And I think that very clear,” Cheney said, knowing that she’s in no position of stop McCarthy from taking the gavel from House Speaker Nancy Pelosis (D-Calif.). Cheney has no say in anything with her abysmal Aug. 15 primary results.
Cheney refers to McCarthy as having no loyalty to the Constitution because she’s already tried and convicted Trump of planning and orchestrating the Jan. 6 insurrection. Cheney’s got the same zealotry against Trump as House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.). Schiff was involved in the Russian witch-hunt against Trump, once saying he had more information about Trump’s ties to Moscow than former Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Even after Mueller released his final report Mach 23, 2019 that Trump had no ties to Moscow, Schiff insisted he had all the facts on Trump. Schiff of course never presented any evidence against Trump because there wasn’t any. Cheney says McCarthy should be House Speaker because she thinks he gave Trump the benefit-of-the-doubt on many important, including his alleged ties to Moscow. Cheney insists Moscow covers for Trump.
What could be more arrogant than to think Cheney has any clout to influence the the GOP. Cheney’s only chance of making it politically is in the Democrat Party, an anathema to her former Vice President father, Dick Cheney. Cheney boxed her career into a corner, doing the most despicable thing imaginable joining the most viciously biased House Democrats, led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), to undermine what’s left of Trump’s political career. Whether Trump has another comeback or not, Cheney has been piling on to Trump with all the most onerous Democrats to the Republican Party. Can you imagine, a Wyoming Republican, embracing the likes of Pelosi and Schiff, all because of her vendetta against Trump? Ultimately, Cheney couldn’t control her own rage, expressed in sanctimonious terms, calling McCarthy disloyal to the U.S. Constitution.
Cheney breaks new ground in cosmic narcissism denouncing House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. Whether McCarthy makes a good House Speaker or not is an open question. There’s nothing in his skill set that’s missing for performing the House Speaker job should the GOP get lucky enough in November. Cheney’s on her way out to pasture largely because of her own doing. No one told her to latch on like a dog to Trump, fixated with preventing him from becoming president. But if Cheney had any faith in voters or believed in the democratic process, she’s know that GOP voters have every right to pick the nominee of their choice in 2024. Once thing’s for sure, Cheney won’t have her claim to fame because she’s contributed to her own extinction. Hageman shellacked Cheney because the GOP voters in Wyoming wanted to pay her back for her disloyalty to the Republican Party.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
