Thus rewarding someone who will carry the water for Trump’s lies…..
House Republicans on Friday elected Representative Elise Stefanik of New York, a vocal defender of former President Donald J. Trump, as their No. 3 leader, moving swiftly to replace Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming, who was deposed this week for her refusal to stay silent about the former president’s election lies.
The secret-ballot vote, which unfolded in a basement auditorium at the Capitol, was the culmination of a remarkable campaign by Republicans to purge a vocal critic of Mr. Trump from their ranks, solidifying his grasp on the party and cementing a litmus test for its leaders of unswerving loyalty to the former president.
Ms. Stefanik, 36, who campaigned as a pragmatic moderate when she was elected to Congress in 2014 and has sometimes crossed party lines to vote with Democrats, in recent years has become a strident ally of Mr. Trump. Republican leaders, citing her messaging discipline and fund-raising prowess, had effectively anointed her as Ms. Cheney’s successor even before the Wyoming Republican, a staunch conservative, was voted out of leadership on Wednesday.
On Friday, Ms. Stefanik beat out Representative Chip Roy of Texas, an arch-conservative who had framed his candidacy as a protest against what he called an ill-considered rush by House leaders to install a Republican who did not represent the party’s core values. But she defeated his challenge, by a vote of 134-46.
On the heels of House Republicans’ vote to force Ms. Cheney out of leadership for her refusal to stay quiet about Mr. Trump’s false narrative of a stolen election, Ms. Stefanik’s ascendancy offered a stark contrast. Unlike Ms. Cheney, she voted on Jan. 6 to invalidate electoral votes for President Biden, and in the months since has repeated several of Mr. Trump’s false claims of widespread voter fraud in the presidential election. She has also endorsed the Arizona election audit, a Republican-led endeavor that critics in both parties have described as a blow to democratic norms and a political embarrassment.
In her first public remarks after the election, Ms. Stefanik pledged to maintain a focus “on unity” as conference chair, and thanked Mr. Trump, who had endorsed her candidacy several times from Mar-a-Lago and cheered her victory in a statement moments after, calling him “a critical part of our Republican team.”….
image…Stefani Reynolds for The New York Times
Louie Gohmert (Trump- Texas)says that those arrested in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 insurrection are political prisoners.
He probably thinks they were in prison because they were part of a GOP tour group that was just excited to be visiting the Capital.
While 100% of House Democrats are vaccinated.
Many House Trumpites refuse to say if they are or not.
Since Pelosi says she still wants to enforce a mask mandate on the floor of the House and since the supposed reason for vaccinated people to wear masks (until yesterday) was to “Protect” the unvaccinated from possible infection by asymptomatic vaccinees ?
I presume Nancy still wants to protect Republicans who refuse to be vaccinated.
Somehow I doubt they appreciate her empathy.
Pelosi is too nice. I say let the unvaxced RepubliQans get COVID.
Fuck em!
Stefanik called Trump the leader of the GOP. Why would she think that? James needs to talk with her and “point out” that she is in an alternate universe.
She won’t listen….
It might take a little work. You might need to convince her that you are politically savvy. Share the proof with her that you have been accumulating those past 10 years or so.
She STILL won’t listen🙄….
James, One quality you do have is that you don’t give up easily. But You appear to have already given up!
You fight the fights U think U CAN win….
James, not you!
How many times have you convinced Jack that he was wrong and you were right? Maybe never? Yet you try to convince him again and again every day! And then you go through the process again the next day.
I LOVE going back and forth with Jack most of the time….
Sometimes I simply do NOT have the time….
But you know in advance that you probably won’t win the argument.
That’s assuming of course that there is a real “argument.”
Usually James doesn’t really make an “argument” as such ,rather he will peruse the Internet for anecdotes that he thinks support his position (often they don’t).
He particularly uses that in his well known “belief” that Trump doesn’t dominate the Republican Party.He cite an irrelevant anecdote that so and so says…..
Which of course is greeted with the proverbial
“So?”
Or in many cases indecipherable gibberish only tangentially related to the topic at hand.
What has always amazes me is that apparently the gibberish makes some sense to himYet ,no one else here seems to understand it.
Maybe he’s in an “alternative universe?”
I do somewhat begrudgingly admire his persistence.
It’s not just me.
In my opinion,he has never “won” an argument or discussion with anyone here.
He’s like the sports team that never wins but still keeps showing up for the game!
Then of course there is my favorite.
Where he will make a statement on some topic.
Others will comment ,oftentimes in opposition ,and after awhile ,he will announce he “agrees “ with them even though his original position was totally the opposite.
He often does this with DSD ,who then has to point out that he(DSD) is in no way “agreeing” with James!
What James writes often seems like gibberish to me. But I felt that Jack has an incredible ability to understand James. He would respond to James, But you rarely if ever saw James reply “no Jack, that is not what I said or meant”, so at some level, I think Jack understands James better than the rest of us.
James seems to agree with me less than he does with everyone else here.
Although I bet James would agree that Jack “understands” him better than the rest of us. James, can I see an “I agree Z”?
I usually understand his original point.
However as the discussion goes on and he wanders all over the place ,often far afield from the original point ,then he loses me.
You guys are entirely TOOOOOOO serious….
So you are not “serious.?”
Well glad you finally admitted that!
As most of U have realised ?
I WILL jump from one side of an issue to the other to elicit more discussion and insight which IS one of the main reasons I have run this place for the last decade after Ron left P1…
In addition?
Some do NOT like my ‘people aren’t just one thing ‘ view which IS the truth….
We ALL answer what we want to and ignore what we don’t to , which is normal…
Yes….
Unlike some who have left this place…
I do NOT take most of the views seriously….
It has made my time here much more enjoyable….
And Jack…
I HAVE repeated over the years that more information on something may and CAN change one’s mind and position on a subject….
To NOT honor this ?
Would make one stupid….
And Yes EVERYBODY?
I AM STUBBORN….
Have to be with my blog buddies helping me be that way….
Thank You ALL for sticking with this place for ALL these years…
I wish there where more people talking/typing…
I miss those who have left….
Some of who still listen in….
But I’m gonna keep on truckin‼️
Just a dog trying to get a bone!
Sniffing the political stents and typing them out on these old paws….
Update ….
All politics IS local….
A Democratic challenger to Elise Stefanik for the north country’s seat in Congress has emerged.
Matt Putorti, a 37-year-old lawyer from Whitehall, N.Y., north of Glens Falls, says Stefanik “is ripping apart the fabric of our community by bringing the divisiveness of our current politics to the North Country.”
Putorti released a video announcing his candidacy and chiding Stefanik for her close ties to former president Donald Trump.
Putorti describes himself as a “gay man of faith,” is a practicing Catholic, and says in the video that “I do think that being gay gives a different perspective in leadership which is important.”…
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Putorti has already put together the team that will run his campaign, including Eric Hyers, described as managing “winning gubernatorial races for Andy Beshear (KY, 2019), Steve Bullock (MT, 2016), and Gina Raimondo (RI, 2014), as well as congressional campaigns for David Cicilline (RI-01, 2012 and 2010)….
More…
It’s His party and I’ll cry if I want to, cry if I want to….
Nobody knows where my Donnie has gone, but Rudy left the same time. Why was he holding his hand, when he’s supposed to be mine?
You would cry, too, if it happened to you.
When Rudy left with Donnie at my party
And came back kissing his ring
I sat down and cried my eyes out
But that was a foolish thing
cause now it Rudy’s turn to cry