The first headlines about Cheney and Kinzinger read that they were going to be expelled from the Republican Party and now that they've realized just how bad this makes them look, they've toned it down to censure.

Censure from what? The support of treasonous madman and his gang of loyal i***ts who sought to take over the federal government by way of taking over the e******ns through the J****** 6th i**********n?

What a thing to try and punish two establishment Republicans over. It is obvious that the contagious of f*****t government is now complete. They will goosestep in line and h**e everyone else or they will be censured.

What does censure mean?.....They are not of us.

Thank God they aren't. Are they the only stand up Republicans left? Sure seems that way.



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GOP now looks to censure Cheney and Kinzinger, not oust them

FILE - Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., vice chair of the House panel investigating the J*** 6 U.S. Capitol i**********n, and her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney walk in the Capitol Rotunda at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, J*** 6, 2022. Rep. Liz Cheney has been setting multiple personal fund-raising records despite a GOP backlash for v****g to impeach former President Donald Trump for the J*** 6, 2021, i**********n at the U.S. Capitol and for not relenting in her public criticism of Trump. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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SAM METZ and MEAD GRUVER
Thu, February 3, 2022, 8:58 PM


SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Republican officials meeting in Utah advanced a watered-down resolution Thursday that would formally censure GOP Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for their perceived disloyalty to former President Donald Trump but not seek to expel them from the party.

The resolution's passage through a subcommittee followed hours of hand-wringing over language that initially would have called on the House Republican Conference to oust Cheney and Kinzinger, the only Republicans on the House committee investigating the J*** 6 i**********n at the Capitol. The censure resolution is expected to be v**ed on Friday by all 168 Republican National Committee members at their winter meeting in Salt Lake City.

“We want to send a message that we’re disapproving of their conduct. It’s a middle ground,” RNC member Harmeet Dhillon said, noting that the v**e was unanimous.

“This is not about being anti-Trump. There are many anti-Trump Republicans that are not included in this resolution. These two took a specific action to defy party leadership,” she added.

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The effort to punish Cheney, of Wyoming, and Kinzinger, of Illinois, comes as party officials juggle pr********n for this year's midterm e******ns, when control of Congress and 36 governorships are at stake, with planning for the 2024 p**********l e******n. In Salt Lake City this week, they’ve discussed where to host their 2024 party convention and whether to compel their candidates not to participate in p**********l debates, a cause important to Trump.

But the last-minute change to the resolution puts in question Trump's overarching influence on a party apparatus that has largely acquiesced to his wishes. The former president and other GOP members were incensed when Kinzinger and Cheney agreed to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s invitation to join the Democratic-led House committee investigating the i**********n, giving the panel a veneer of bipartisan credibility.

The draft censure resolution accuses Kinzinger and Cheney of “participating in a Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse" and of “utilizing their past professed political affiliation to mask Democrat abuse of prosecutorial power for partisan purposes.”

It says the RNC will “immediately cease any and all support” of Kinzinger and Cheney as members of the party and says the RNC denounces “those who deliberately jeopardize victory in November.”

Republican Party Chair Ronna McDaniel did not respond to request for comment Thursday on the resolution changes, but Dhillon said RNC resolutions are routinely revised.

Not every RNC member was supportive of the initial draft resolution for expulsion.

“It’s distracting from what should be our main objective: winning back the House and the Senate. We should be focused on taking on Democrats and not each other. This is not time well spent,” Bill Palatucci, a committee member from New Jersey, said of the effort to punish Cheney and Kinzinger.

The resolution to expel Cheney and Kinzinger was spearheaded by David Bossie, a Maryland committee member who previously served as a Trump campaign adviser, and Frank Eathorne, chair of Wyoming’s Republican Party. Eathorne declined to comment on the revised resolution after its passage.

The initial draft, obtained by The Associated Press, had accused Cheney and Kinzinger of serving as “pawns to parrot Democrat talking points” on the J*** 6 House committee and chided them for deposing their colleagues and “pursuing what amounts to a third political impeachment of President Trump.”

“The Conference must not be sabotaged by Rep. Liz Cheney and Rep. Adam Kinzinger who have demonstrated, with actions and words, that they support Democrat efforts to destroy President Trump more than they support winning back a Republican majority in 2023,” it said.

The RNC has no formal power over the party’s congressional members, so how much weight a resolution to expel them from the House Republican Conference would have carried in Congress if passed is unclear.

Kinzinger released a statement after the v**e saying “conspiracies and toxic tribalism” were hindering Republicans' “ability to see clear-eyed.”

“Rather than focus their efforts on how to help the American people, my fellow Republicans have chosen to censure two lifelong members of their party for simply upholding their oaths of office,” he said.

Cheney has already been censured by the Wyoming Republican Party, but the v**ers who will determine her fate are less conservative than party insiders. Wyoming allows v**ers to change party affiliation at the polls, meaning Cheney could draw enough independent and even Democratic support to prevail in the Republican primary Aug. 16.

Cheney over the past year has raised $7.2 million, ranking ninth among all U.S. House candidates, according to the Federal E******n Commission. That included over $2 million over the last three months of 2021, more than four times as much as her leading primary opponent raised, and Cheney finished the year with over 10 times as much campaign money.

Cheney said in a tweet Thursday night that she didn’t recognize those she felt had abandoned the U.S. Constitution in service of Trump.

“The leaders of the Republican Party have made themselves willing hostages to a man who admits he tried to ‘overturn’ a p**********l e******n and suggests he would pardon J*** 6 defendants, some of whom have been charged with s*******s conspiracy," she said.

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Gruver reported from Cheyenne, Wyoming. AP National Politics Writer Steve Peoples contributed reporting from New York.

Lawd have mercy.

Your first paragraph: What BS. The Republicans, including the MAGA Republicans, are not the only elected leaders. The Democrats do not have to capitulate, which is what you want, to a President or party that loses the popular v**e. And it's not like the Republicans cooperate when the Democrats win. No, they become the party of 'NO' and obstruction. That you can write this sort of tripe speaks volumes.

Yes, Biden promised bi-partisanship and civility. But since the Republicans, especially the MAGA Republicans, are partisans and uncivil that cannot happen. Biden's border policies are not what you claim (secretly seeding infected i*****l a***ns, really?), Biden, nor any President, cannot raise taxes (check your pocket Constitution), HR1 is not for federalizing e******ns, it's to keep e******ns from becoming limited to white males with landed property again. I wonder what plan for leaving Afghanistan your boy would have executed. That you can say Biden encourages lawlessness and crime in the name of equity leaves a lot to be unpacked, non of it reflecting well on your understanding of racial issues in the US.

You v**e for Trump and complain that Democrats are elitist grifters? That is as rich and ironic as any sentence in your post. Self awareness isn't your strong suit, is it.

A minute at most on Google Search would have saved him from humiliation. Hard to have your point heard when you sound like a total i***t. But that seems a pattern with the Right: no research. It is like Kellyanne Conway stupidly asking, “This is C****-** ― not C***D-1, folks, And so you would think the people charged with the World Health Organization would be on top of that.” Fox News did not blink. Chuckle.

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Morgan Keith
Sun, January 30, 2022, 7:13 PM

On Sunday, US Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., tweeted out criticism targeting Anthony F***i, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, containing a political cartoon superimposed with a quote from neo-N**i Kevin Alfred Strom, which he misattributed to French philosopher Voltaire.

"To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize," the quote reads. [Catchy.]

A USA Today fact-check of the quote found no trace of the phrase in Voltaire's correspondence from 1742-1777, which is logged in the University of Southern California's digital library.

Etymologist Barry Popik discovered that the quote originated from a 1993 radio broadcast with Strom, although his wording was slightly different, USA Today reported.

Additionally, Strom confirmed to the outlet that the quote was his.

Strom, who helped found the neo-N**i National Vanguard, is an American white nationalist and Holocaust denier, the Associated Press reported.

In 2007, Strom was arrested by federal agents at his home in Stanardsville, Virginia, and charged with possessing and receiving child pornography, enticing a minor to perform sex acts, and intimidating a witness, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

He was convicted and sentenced to 23 months in prison, which ultimately led the National Vanguard to disband.

While Massie has not addressed or removed the quote from Strom, he has posted additional messages to his Twitter account, including a link to a newsletter on liberal censorship and a congratulatory message to the Cincinnati Bengals following their playoff win.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-rep-thomas-massie-shared-021341675.html