The GOP's Golden Opportunity

The House Republicans have wonderful prospects for 

winning five net seats needed to regain the majority in

2022 --- provided that they don't collapse into intramural

brawling over last year's election. However, that is just

what they seem to be engaging in. 

There are two factions butting heads in the House of 

Representatives; one is pro-Trump, the other very much

anti-. Rep. Liz Cheney, who is with the latter, is a member

of the Republicans' House Leadership, and has survived an

attempt to boot her off after she was one of ten Republicans

who voted to impeach President Trump after the ruckus 

which took place at the capitol on January 6. Furthermore,

 Rep. Cheney openly disagrees with those in the GOP who 

have stated that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.

She responded to the 45th president's statement:

"The Fraudulent Presidential Election of 2020 will be, 

from this day forth, known as THE BIG LIE!"

with "The 2020 presidential election was not stolen. 

Anyone who claims it was is spreading THE BIG LIE,

turning their back on the rule of law, and poisoning 

our democratic system." I suppose it didn't, and still 

doesn't, mean anything to Rep. Cheney that several states

had instances where lo and behold (!) some bags of uncounted

votes were "found", and some other interesting occurrences

happened as well, i.e. changing election rules via lawsuits

to take advantage of the COVID pandemic, to name but a few 

examples.

Your thoughtful Peasant has an answer for this growing threat 

to GOP party unity at a time when unity is exactly what the

party needs: Don't toss Cheney from the GOP Leadership, but

find a way to diminish her influence so she won't cause any more

trouble for the former president or his supporters on Capitol Hill.

This will be helpful in building an agenda for the future which

will prevent current president Biden from making any more 

Big Government-enhancing mischief. A fight over whether or 

not to keep Liz Cheney in her position will divide the party at a 

time when it can least afford to be divided. 

And a close eye should be kept on Cheney and like-minded 

Republicans going forward.

MEM