Conservatives Renew Effort to Push Out Cheney, Kinzinger

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Conservatives Renew Effort to Push Out Cheney, Kinzinger

January 18, 2022 at 7:53 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 10 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2022/01/18/conservatives-renew-effort-to-push-out-cheney-kinzinger/

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Members of the House Freedom Caucus are renewing their effort to boot Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) from the GOP conference — an effort that failed previously, but is regaining steam in the wake of the Jan. 6 select committee seeking the cooperation of several Republicans, CNN CNN reports.

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[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. The Republican Party is DEAD...

Congressional and State Trumpists are seeing to that. Especially in the Congressional sphere.

[Takket]

2. It seems wildly inappropriate for the author to refer to them as "conservatives"

They are nowhere near that political ideology.

[crickets]

3. GOP leadership's desire to avoid upsetting committee member ratios

is the only thing holding them back. If committee member numbers weren't at stake, it might be a different story.

https://mobile.twitter.com/MZanona/status/1483603063038488576

Melanie Zanona
@MZanona
BUT GOP leadership still remains opposed to the idea, per sources.

One of the reasons conveyed to members is that removing 2 ppl from the conference would upset the committee ratios worked out at start of Congress.

Fewer Rs in the GOP conference = fewer Rs on committees.
7:51 PM · Jan 18, 2022

[LENNY0229]

4. What "conservatives"?? They are radical right wing Trump Cultists.

[Poiuyt]

6. This. They're not conservatives, they're fascists

[JHB]

9. They've been invited and welcomed into calling themselves "conservative" for decades now

So now they define "conservatism" and the "real conservatives" are the fringe who need to come up with a new name for themselves.

[uponit7771]

11. +1

[DarwinsRetriever]

5. Cheney and Kinzinger are conservative

Nothing wrong with conservatives. The remainder of the Republican party are either Fascists or Cowards. We should stop calling these people Fascists and the Republican Party as the American Fascist Party (AFP).

[FSogol]

7. Really? What do you call the people that stand by and let the facists win?

[JHB]

8. Conservatives renew effort to push out conservatively-incorrect conservatives

Movement Conservatives built what became the Trump Cult so they could surf them to power. They've spent the last 60 years encouraging the foamers to identify as "conservative" rather than as some other label. And they used that leverage to drive any Republican who didn't get with the program to political extinction. Just ask the Rockefeller Republicans.

Kudos to the OP for rightly labeling the cultists as "conservatives". They made their bed, they can lie in it. Just because Cheney and Kinzinger aren't the same level of awful doesn't mean they aren't conservative too.

[Mr. Ected]

10. Republicans aren't conservative and the media isn't liberal

I know that, you know that, but how do we convey that message to Joe Sixpack?