If the House GOP Conference Doesn't Boot Liz Cheney From Leadership They Will Deserve What Happens Next

A meaningless vote followed the sham impeachment hearing held today in the House of Representatives. The whole thing is nothing more than an exercise in score-settling on the part of Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats. They deeply resent the mess that President Trump made of their plans to install Hillary Clinton as president and who managed, with damned little help from anyone in the GOP, to push back the hands of the clock that were creeping towards a dark midnight of socialism and the triumph of collectivism. As in most things involving President Trump, there was an element of virtue signaling from some Republicans, which were led by a posturing Liz Cheney. Cheney is in the Number Three leadership position in the House GOP Caucus. Her vote to impeach a president of her own party is unprecedented by any measure but particularly when the grounds were so obviously contrived and wrong. The challenge to Kevin McCarthy is very much an in-your-face one. It signals to the GOP caucus that if McCarthy can’t hold his own leadership team together on a vote of this magnitude that the GOP caucus is now a gathering of free agents who can do whatever the hell they want to do.-- More...