Cheney Declines To Link GOP Restrictive Voting Bills To Big Lie

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Source: TPM





May 24, 2021 9:44 a.m.


Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) bucked the vast majority of her party in pushing back against ex-President Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election — but you’d be mistaken in thinking that means she’s spurning the GOP’s anti-democracy efforts as a whole.

“Well, I think you have to look at the specifics of each one of those efforts,” she said when Axios reporter Jonathan Swan asked in a pre-recorded interview, published Sunday, if she saw any connection between Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election being rigged against him and the wave of Republicans’ anti-voting bills across the country.

The Wyoming Republican demurred again when Swan pointed out that it’s hardly a coincidence that the legislation began pouring in after the election.

“I think everybody should want a situation and a system where people who ought to be able to vote and have the right to vote can vote and people who don’t shouldn’t,” she said.
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I watched this video--she was choosing her words slowly as she talked

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[lark]

1. repugs just got to repug.

Cheney is no saint, I would never vote for her as she is quite the corporatist and 100% pro rich and anti-worker. The only difference is she's isn't anti-democracy and a lot of her party are full on fascists.

[Traildogbob]

13. Cheney's gotta Cheney.

Keep your damn fingers off their money. Most of it made by killing in other countries, with other people’s children. Now they see killing and lying to kill is profitable right here. No travel expenses.
Recruiting their soldiers, easier that getting people to join after Pearl Harbor.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Liz Cheney just destroyed her own credibility

She's just a milder form of the same anti-democratic movement. She just admitted it.

[Rebl2]

3. Certainly did

[PortTack]

4. Oh color me surprised!!!!

[ananda]

5. A slugwort has more integrity than most Reeps.

IOW, so what?

[hay rick]

6. The difference is

Liz Cheney is against shooting democracy on Fifth Avenue but is ready to support drowning it in a bathtub.

[Captain Zero]

9. That's about the size of it. '

nt

[Probatim]

7. Her moment of rationality passed - she's back to her original form.

She's out of a leadership role though. Maybe she took her stance to lighten her workload?

[JoeOtterbein]

8. Why do we expect cowardly liars like Liz to do anything good?

Big liars need Big lies to exist.

Stop praising them when they stumble upon a truth. They will lie that much faster, as soon as they feel the need.

[xxqqqzme]

10. Rethugs can't help it.

The dark side is always screamimg to be released. They can only keep the door locked for a brief period.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

11. The GOP is the party of voter suppression

cheney is a member of the GOP and supports voter suppression

[onecaliberal]

12. And this is exactly how you know she is full of shit and no better than that orange criminal.

The GOP are criminals. They should all be locked up.

[Crowman2009]

20. +1

[Bleacher Creature]

14. I'm just surprised that people are surprised by this.

She's a hard core Republican. That hasn't changed. She's taking a stand against Trump's pernicious lies, which is commendable, but that's as far as she's going to go.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

15. The GOP need to cheat to win

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[LiberalLovinLug]

16. People can't be surprised by this. Its all part of her plan to be elected.

It does no use taking down Trumpism, working to lead a new Republican party out of the ashes, if those damn Democrats can still be able to win by using that stupid thing they call democracy.

[Efilroft Sul]

17. Voter suppression is the glue that binds all Republicans together.

They have nothing to offer the people, so they do all they can to prevent the people from voting.

[Maxheader]

18. Wingers are not going to admit they are after restricting the vote..

Scared spit less they are. Absentee ballots...early voting in 2022?

They sweat bullets thinking about it. ..

[Crowman2009]

19. I knew it was a waste of time trying to support this warmonger!

Fuck em' all! Let the GOPers eat each other alive.

[Downtown Hound]

21. Which is why hailing her as a hero and an ally is a huge mistake

Just because she showed a fleeting moment of sanity doesn't make her our friend. Let's not forget that it was her father's shenanigans in Florida 2000 that paved the way for Trump to believe he could use the Supreme Court to overturn democracy in 2020. She no friend to us and no friend to America. Her family is, always has been, and always will be about enriching themselves first.

[Joe Nation]

22. Like I always say...FUCK LIZ CHENEY.

N/T

[IsItJustMe]

23. I guess she had her two seconds of being human. Back to the same old BS.

Seems to be genetic in the GOP. Gramm, Rubio and rest say one thing and then turn around and say something 180 different the next moment. I really don't think they have any values at all.

[hadEnuf]

24. She is still an ass.

Just not a seditious one.

[C Moon]

25. If they still have an R next to their name after 4 years of Trump,

they are not good for the U.S.
They were part of the attempted coup.
They know all the lies and cheating that goes on and will continue to go on.

[czarjak]

26. "I'd do it all over again, wouldn't change a thing". Daddy's advice still strands.