The former South Carolina Governor and UN Ambassador has decided to go public with criticisms of her party’s leader joining a small growing number of others…
Former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley sharply criticized President Donald Trump over the Capitol riot and his behavior since the election, telling Republican National Committee members in a closed-door speech Thursday evening that Trump’s actions “will be judged harshly by history.”
“President Trump has not always chosen the right words,” Haley said during an appearance at the RNC’s winter meeting on Amelia Island, Fla., according to a person familiar with her remarks. “He was wrong with his words in Charlottesville, and I told him so at the time. He was badly wrong with his words yesterday. And it wasn’t just his words. His actions since Election Day will be judged harshly by history.”
Haley is one of several former senior Trump administration officials to scold the president in the wake of Wednesday’s mob uprising at the U.S. Capitol. Former Attorney General Bill Barr and ex-White House chief of staff John Kelly are among those who’ve spoken out.
Haley, who is widely regarded as a likely 2024 presidential candidate, called out Democrats and technology and social media companies for “inflam[ing] the American people’s passions beyond constructive boundaries.”
But she also said the GOP played a role, adding that “if we are the party of personal responsibility, we need to take personal responsibility.”….
image…Fox News
Ol Nikki!
Give her a role she will play it!
Who knows what she will be in 2024?
I’m hearing that Republican Senators are now saying they wish they had “done more” to stop Trump.
OK, prove it by calling for his impeachment and announce you will vote to convict.
Otherwise it’s just noise.
I just heard Ted Cruz say he takes no responsibility for the violence he helped to start at the Capitol.
Those Republican thugs at the Capitol beat a police officer to death with fire extinguishers.
Will Ted and half the Republicans take responsibility for this death?
Time for them to resign.
Nikki Haley breaks with Trump: ‘We shouldn’t have followed him’
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley issued stunning remarks breaking with former President Trump, telling Politico in an interview published Friday that she believes he “let us down.”
“We need to acknowledge he let us down,” Haley, who served in her ambassador role under Trump, said. “He went down a path he shouldn’t have, and we shouldn’t have followed him, and we shouldn’t have listened to him. And we can’t let that ever happen again.”
Haley’s remarks are her strongest yet against the former president in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and come as Trump’s legal team is set to present its defense of Trump on Friday in his second Senate impeachment trial….
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Graham to meet with Trump to talk future of GOP
The South Carolina Republican said Friday evening that he plans to encourage Trump to work with Republicans to ensure that they take back the House and the Senate in 2022…
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CG would really like this Firing Line interview with Kyle Rice’s Republican Congresswoman Jaime Herrera-Beutler (Wash. 3rd, elected 2010), who was one of the courageous Ten Republicans who voted for Impeachment Part Deux:
https://www.wliw.org/programs/firing-line/jaime-herrera-beutler-du3rf6/#
I guess it has been over a decade since we last heard from Kyle. At the time, I’m pretty sure he was in Kathy Rodgers district. but with redistricting and Kyle likely moving, who knows where he is now?
I’m not sure if Cathy McMorris Rodgers (who was definitely a heroine of Kyle’s, together with Mitt Romney) moved into the 5th C.D. or if her district was moved beyond recognition, but she now represents far-eastern Washington around Spokane and bordering Idaho.
Kyle was (and insofar as I know still is) in Cowlitz County (Longview-Kelso) in the southwest corner of Washington, across the Columbia River from Oregon, which is (at least now) in the 3rd District, represented by Jaime Herrera-Beutler.
Although the local paper almost certainly got his name wrong (but apparently right elsewhere in the very same article), it’s pretty obvious that Kyle was able to overcome all kinds of allegedly-insuperable contradictions and marry another Republican evangelical Christian enthusiast for Mitt Romney, Mark, in August 2013 (in the first year that Washington state recognized same-sex marriages).
https://tdn.com/news/local/one-year-in-40-same-sex-couples-have-tied-the-knot-in-cowlitz-county/article_151c01a6-5fa6-11e3-a156-001a4bcf887a.html
In 2010 (two years before Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign), he was elected to a GOP precinct committee in Cowlitz County:
https://results.vote.wa.gov/results/20100817/cowlitz/
But that’s all I know (through Bing). Kyle looks far huskier than I had imagined on Politics1, although thinking back it should be no surprise. Apparently others here have occasionally encountered his entries on other political blogs and forums.
Yeah I knew Kyle lived in the Columbia River Gorge area as I reached out to him a few years ago for recommendations on things to see while I was visiting Portland, Hood River, Bend area a few years back.
Yeah – I am Rather sure Kyle lived in the Longview area.
It appears that McMorris’s district hasn’t changed that much over the years, and it never included Longview, so I must be wrong.
More specifically, Kyle lived, I think he said, in Kelso, the less-glamorous and more proletarian part of Longview-Kelso (think, but on a smaller scale, of Cowley to Oxford, or Oakland to San Francisco, or Fort Worth to Dallas or Pawtucket to Providence).
FWIW, there’s a photo of him from 2016 in which he looks slimmer. Some of us have gone in opposite directions.
And I certainly was surprised by the epic magnitude of DSD’s beard when I saw a photo of him some time back.
Sorry to disappoint you, CG, but it does get trimmed regularly now.
You must spend an enormous, colossal amount of time, effort and skill probing the Internet, unmasking screen names and uncovering records. It’s a little scary.
[But be warned: more than one person bears my name, just as more than person bears yours.]
However, there’s no excuse for letting Fancy Bear and the People’s Liberation Army have the advantage in these endeavours. Your patriotic duty is clearly to clear all present obligations and present yourself to the nearest NSA or Cyber Command recruiting office.
I think you spent more time looking up Kyle than anything else. He doesn’t post here so I do not really see the point of talking about him much here. You posted a direct link here which I think was inappropriate on your part.
But you are a community activist in your hometown. You have talked about it many times. Be proud of it.
In what way was Dave posting the positive article about Kyle inappropriate? I suspect Kyle would approve.
On the other hand, I’m rather sure Dave did not approve of you sharing your research on his beard. But somehow Dave is the bad guy?
Never said Dave was a “bad guy” but we have no idea what Kyle would want. He does not post here. I saw that article a long time ago but would not think about posting a link to it.
Dave said he was “husky” though which was a bit of a personal judgment about someone that some might find offensive but made it in the context of people not looking like they expect. I did not post any links about Dave or his beard or anything that reveals his name, but just pointed out that I was impressed years ago when I saw his beard.
If we want to reference Kyle or something from a long time ago on P1, I think it is perhaps best to keep with a standard of not including last names or full real names or linking to anything that includes them.