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Rep. Liz
Cheney
won't
lie,
making
her
unfit
for
Republican
leadership
Opinion:
Telling
the
truth
about
the
election
and
Donald
Trump
doesn't
fit in
with
Republican
'ideals.'
Just ask
Arizona's
Rep.
Andy
Biggs.
By
EJ
Montini
arizonarepublic.com
Rep.
Liz
Cheney,
chair of
the
House
Republican
Conference,
third
highest
ranking
member
of her
party,
is about
to be
cast out
of her
position
for
having
done
something
that
cannot,
and will
not, be
tolerated
in a
member
of the
GOP
leadership
team:
She told
the
truth.
Even
worse,
she told
the
truth
about
the
presidential
election
and …
Donald
Trump.
House
Republican
Leader
Kevin
McCarthy
said of
Cheney,
“I think
she’s
got real
problems.
... I’ve
had it
with
her. ...
I’ve
lost
confidence.”
Cheney
won't
say the
election
was
stolen
Cheney,
who
represents
Wyoming,
was
among 10
Republican
members
of the
House to
vote to
impeach
Trump
for
having
incited
a riot
at the
Capitol
on Jan.
6.
She
said of
her
vote,
“There
has
never
been a
greater
betrayal
by a
president
of the
United
States
of his
office
and his
oath to
the
Constitution.”
As
for the
election,
she has
condemned
the
ongoing
attack
on the
November
results
(as is
happening
in
places
like
Arizona.)
At a
recent
conference
in
Georgia
Cheney
said,
“We
can’t
embrace
the
notion
the
election
is
stolen.
It’s a
poison
in the
bloodstream
of our
democracy.
We can’t
whitewash
what
happened
on
January
6 or
perpetuate
Trump’s
big lie.
It is a
threat
to
democracy.
What he
did on
January
6 is a
line
that
cannot
be
crossed.”
Cheney
seems to
have
crossed
a
different
line.
Republicans
want
partisans.
They do
not want
truth
tellers.
Biggs
says
Cheney
violated
GOP
'ideals'
Rep.
Liz
Cheney
on April
20,
2021, in
Washington,
D.C.
This
explains
why
Arizona’s
own Rep.
Andy
Biggs
has said
of
Cheney,
“I don’t
think
she
should
be the
chair of
the
Republican
conference
anymore.
The
reality
is she’s
not
representing
the
conference;
she’s
not
representing
the
Republican
ideals.”
Ideals?
That’s
what you
call
them?
Cheney,
the
daughter
of the
former
vice
president,
is as
partisan
as they
come.
Consider
just a
few of
the
things
she’s
said
recently
in
newsletters
and
press
releases.
They
include:
“At
every
opportunity,
the
Biden
Administration
and
Congressional
Democrats
are
working
to take
power
away
from the
American
people
…”
And:
“Since
President
Biden
took his
oath of
office
in
January,
Democrats
in
Washington
have
repeatedly
attempted
to abuse
their
power …”
And:
“(Biden)
has
turned
his back
on that
laudable
goal to
pursue
an
agenda
that
runs
counter
our
shared
conservative
principles
in
Wyoming
…”
And:
“Our
Adversaries
Are
Testing
President
Biden &
He’s
Responding
With
Weakness.”
Apparently,
truth
violates
GOP
'ideals'
Cheney
is a
true
conservative
believer.
She
comes by
her
partisanship
honestly.
But
she will
not use
that
partisanship
as an
excuse
to deny
what she
knows to
be true.
Her
spokesman
Jeremy
Adler
said,
“This is
about
whether
the
Republican
Party is
going to
perpetuate
lies
about
the 2020
election
and
attempt
to
whitewash
what
happened
on Jan
6. Liz
will not
do that
…”
This
makes
her
ineligible
to hold
a GOP
leadership
position,
since
truth
violates
the
party’s
“ideals.”
Just
ask Andy
Biggs.
Reach
Montini
at
ed.montini@arizonarepublic.com.
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