| | | Cheney and Kinzinger Suffer Devastating Blow as RNC Moves Forward with Censuring Them
By C. Douglas Golden
February 4, 2022 at 9:38a
The House’s Jan. 6 committee is nothing more than a partisan witch-hunt. Nancy Pelosi’s Democrats have commandeered government resources and legislators’ time for what amounts to a paid political advertisement for the elections in 2022 and 2024. The problem is that America is paying for it, not the Democrats.
Another problem: Two anti-Trump Republicans are taking part in this paid political advertisement. Both of them — Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois — have sworn up and down that this is a serious investigation and not just a kangaroo court. Meanwhile, anyone with two eyes and half a brain can see the marsupials bouncing around the room.
The Republican National Committee has apparently had enough of their rubbish; on Thursday evening, Politico reported the RNC will likely censure both Cheney and Kinzinger after a resolution unanimously cleared a committee vote at the RNC winter meeting in Salt Lake City. The full body will vote on it Friday.
This is a long time coming; here at The Western Journal, we’ve chronicled the myriad ways this is a sham committee and how both Cheney and Kinzinger’s participation should appall conservatives. (We’ll continue to chronicle the witch-hunt as it lurches forward, as well; you can help us by subscribing.)
Harmeet Dhillon, an RNC committeewoman from California, was one of what Politico described as “several dozen sponsors of the resolution.” She said the censure was based solely on their work with the Jan. 6 select committee.
“This is not about them being anti-Trump,” Dhillon said.
“There are plenty of other people in the party who are anti-Trump whose names don’t appear in the resolution. These two took specific action to defy party leadership.”
Party leadership had admonished Republicans not to participate after House Speaker Pelosi rejected several of the Republicans House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy had put forth to serve on the committee.
Cheney and Kinzinger were then added to the commission by Pelosi herself. The Republicans were the highest-profile GOP members to vote for former President Donald Trump’s impeachment for incitement over the Capitol riot.
The censure resolution the RNC will vote on Friday is the weaker of two alternatives; others had proposed expelling Cheney and Kinzinger from the House Republican Caucus.
Politico’s David Siders and Natalie Allison, however, said expulsion from the caucus “would have been more complicated” than censure: “Several RNC members said they feared it would create a political headache for both the House minority leader, Kevin McCarthy, and the RNC chair, Ronna McDaniel. McDaniel said in November that Cheney ‘obviously’ is ‘still a Republican,'” they reported.
This being Politico, however, there was a loud whiff when Siders and Allison missed the point: “Still, for the Republican National Committee to censure two of its own members is significant — a pointed escalation in the GOP’s bid to purge itself of Republicans perceived as disloyal to Trump.”
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