Lies, Damn Lies and the RNC

Commentary by Stephen Macaulay

“WHEREAS, The primary mission of the Republican Party is to elect Republicans who support the United States Constitution and share our values. . .”

And there you have it, signed, sealed and delivered.

No, not the censure of Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), of which those are the opening words in the resolution against the two, but the elected officials who participated in the voice vote against the two as well as the elected members of Congress who continue to spread lies about who won the 2020 presidential election and who fail to see that were there to be a slight tipping on January 6, 2020, the Constitutional mandate of counting the electoral votes could have ended in the vice president of the United States, a Republican, hanging from a gallows.

Somehow the “Hang Mike Pence” chant seems to be forgotten by these people who ought to be absolutely outraged. And what of the historic Republican decorum? Do the people who smeared feces in the U.S. Capitol during the storming of the building get a pass?

But wait.

According to the resolution “Representatives Cheney and Kinzinger are participating in a Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse.”

“Legitimate political discourse”? Where? In Thuderdome? Discourse doesn’t happen through bullhorns.

Consider the following passage from the resolution, a resolution motivated by Cheney and Kinzinger participating in the “Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol.”

(“Attack on the United States Capitol.” Shouldn’t Republicans want to get to the bottom of that? Those six words should give every patriotic American a chill down her or his spine. A symbol of freedom was attacked. And the Republican National Committee wants to give it a pass because they claim it was only “legitimate political discourse.”)

“The [House Republican] Conference must not be sabotaged by Representatives Liz Cheney and 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 2022.”

Destroy President Trump?

Does trying to find out the truth of the matter constitute destruction? Are any of these people parents? Do any of these people accept their children telling even white lies?

Are Cheney and Kinzinger joining up with a group of Democrats who are outfitted in face paint and carrying bear spray and truncheons of various configurations that are laying siege to Mar-a-Lago, or are they sitting in the House of Representatives where decorum has — with little thanks to the people who are standing in condemnation of Cheney and Kinzinger — been restored?

The Republicans can throw Cheney and Kinzinger out of their club. The Republicans can do whatever it takes to make sure that Cheney doesn’t win re-election.

But what they can’t do is wrap themselves in the flag that the January 6th rioters defiled and claim that they are upholding the Constitution.

That is another in what has become an all-too familiar Big Lie, which these shameless men and women utter with impunity.

They should be ashamed of themselves for putting party over honesty.

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