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Fred Weinberg) – “The Senate can walk and chew gum at the same time.” So said Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy on last weekend’s Fox News Sunday, when asked if it can do an unconstitutional and very unpopular impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump and deal with President Joe Biden’s agenda.
Having spent many years in Las Vegas, I’d make that a long odds bet.
According to Statista, the very current Congressional job approval rating is 25%, up 10 points from last month’s 15%.
In other words, maybe even their own mothers don’t like them.
And then, there’s Wyoming’s (sort of) very own Elizabeth Cheney. She voted to impeach former President Donald Trump and was promptly censured by the Republican Party in her own home state. Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz visited the cowboy state last week and spoke to somewhere close to 1000 Republicans at a rally.
PANAMA CITY Two recent positions taken by the Bay County Republican Party have made public a fissure between some party members about the best tack to take for the future of the party.
An aggressive stance by local party leaders led to a December vote not to recognize (at the time) President-elect Joe Biden until former President Donald Trump either conceded or said the vote was valid. It also led to a January vote requesting U.S. Rep Elizabeth Cheney of Wyoming step down from her position as House Republican Conference chairwoman or be removed by House Republicans for voting in favor of Trump’s impeachment.
Earlier this week, House Republicans voted by secret ballot on whether or not to remove Rep. Liz Cheney from her leadership position after she voted along with only nine other GOP members to impeach former President Donald Trump over his alleged precipitation of the Jan. 6, 2021 storming of the Capitol.
Ms. Cheney, the third-ranking House Republican, was one of 10 Republican lawmakers to vote for Mr. Trump’s impeachment on Jan. 13 over his role in a riot at the Capitol a week earlier.
During Mr. Gaetz’s remarks, the president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., called in by phone to speak to the crowd. He referred to poll numbers showing about two-thirds of Wyoming voters disapprove of Ms. Cheney’s impeachment vote.
“It seems like Liz Cheney’s favorables there are only slightly worse than her father’s shooting skills,” Mr. Trump said, referring to former Vice President Dick Cheney’s infamous accidental wounding of a hunting companion. “It’s time to have people who are going to start representing the people. Let’s find someone who can replace her and actually do the job well.”
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Thursday that he supports Rep. Liz Cheney retaining her leadership role in the GOP despite her vote to impeach former President Trump.