{"id":32880,"date":"2021-05-05T13:39:34","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T18:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=32880"},"modified":"2021-05-05T13:39:34","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T18:39:34","slug":"rep-liz-cheney-i-wy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/05\/05\/rep-liz-cheney-i-wy\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep Liz Cheney (I-WY)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or, does Rep Cheney (R-WY) have enough self-respect to exit the Republican Party if removed from leadership? She&#8217;s currently #3 in the House <em><strong>GOP<\/strong><\/em> caucus, and is the <em><strong>GOP<\/strong><\/em> Conference chair. She easily survived a challenge shortly after she voted in affirmation of the second impeachment of former President Trump three months ago. But a new challenge is anticipated in the wake of undiplomatic remarks she has since made. Now she may have lost more support:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Tuesday he&#8217;s &#8220;lost confidence&#8221; in Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) during a moment of candor caught on a hot mic,\u00a0<a class=\"gtm-content-click\" href=\"https:\/\/traffic.megaphone.fm\/AXIOS1915834004.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-vars-link-text=\"a tape\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/traffic.megaphone.fm\/AXIOS1915834004.mp3\" data-vars-event-category=\"story\" data-vars-sub-category=\"story\" data-vars-item=\"in_content_link\">a tape<\/a>\u00a0reviewed by Axios shows.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What he&#8217;s saying:<\/strong>\u00a0&#8220;I think she&#8217;s got real problems,&#8221; McCarthy told Steve Doocy off-air ahead of a live &#8220;Fox and Friends&#8221; interview. &#8220;I&#8217;ve had it with &#8230; I&#8217;ve had it with her. You know, I&#8217;ve lost confidence. &#8230; Well, someone just has to bring a motion, but I assume that will probably take place.&#8221;<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/iz-cheney-kevin-mccarthy-hot-mic-9ac0f8b7-c4ab-4c26-9d1d-1466505ae10b.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Axios<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I hope, when the vote is brought up, she has a chance to present a statement, and that it&#8217;s this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is a vote about morality. I represent truth, decency, and democracy. My opponent, a Trump supporter, therefore represents mendacity, immorality, a hostility to democracy, and all the things we despise in Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Vote carefully, because this is how you&#8217;ll be known.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;d infuriate Trump supporters, because all but the bit about the Democrats would be true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or, does Rep Cheney (R-WY) have enough self-respect to exit the Republican Party if removed from leadership? She&#8217;s currently #3 in the House GOP caucus, and is the GOP Conference chair. She easily survived a challenge shortly after she voted in affirmation of the second impeachment of former President Trump \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/05\/05\/rep-liz-cheney-i-wy\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32880"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32882,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32880\/revisions\/32882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}