StoryGraph Biggest Story 2021-02-04 -- marjorie taylor greene (14), house minority leader kevin mccarthy (13), rep marjorie (12), liz cheney (12), to further their partisan power grab regarding the committee assignments (11)
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is standing arm in arm with Marjorie Taylor Greene while complaining about Democrats holding Greene accountable.
Why comparing Marjorie Taylor Greene to AOC is ridiculous
No, Democrats and Republicans don’t have have a similar "extremism" problem.
House GOP Leader Condemns Greene’s Conspiracy Theories But Won’t Do More
House Democrats will vote on whether to strip the newly elected lawmaker of her committee assignments after saying they saw “no alternative.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar: GOP bid to tie me to Marjorie Taylor Greene is ‘desperate smear’
“Sadly, this is the Republican playbook,” says Rep. Ilhan Omar on the GOP effort to tie her to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. “Republicans cannot just wave a magic wand and attack the Black congresswoman.”
Analysis | Marjorie Taylor Greene would be in rare company if she is kicked off her committees
Greene would join a small club — one mostly made up of convicted criminals but also plenty of extreme figures.
House Republicans vote to keep Liz Cheney in leadership after she defends her impeachment vote
House Republicans voted Wednesday night that Rep. Liz Cheney should keep her post in House GOP leadership after she defended her support for impeachment as a vote of conscience during a contentious closed-door GOP conference meeting.
House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy broke his silence on Wednesday over the uproar caused by freshman Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's conspiracy theory views, suggesting Republicans would not move to strip her from her committee assignments, effectively forcing Democrats to take action on their own.
Analysis: Why Kevin McCarthy has already failed his first big leadership test
"When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice," William James, one of the most prominent American philosophers of the 19th Century, once said.
Republicans rally to keep Cheney in power
The establishment wing of the GOP won a rare and dramatic victory Wednesday night when Rep.
Republicans vote to keep Cheney in leadership post amid party-defining moment
House Republican Conference Chairwoman Liz Cheney held on to her leadership role after a contentious, four-hour “family meeting” among GOP lawmakers on the party’s direction in the post-Trump era.
No apologies from Cheney or her critics in closed-door battle on GOP future
House Republican Conference Chairwoman Liz Cheney refused to apologize for voting to impeach former President Donald Trump. Embattled freshman and staunch Trump supporter Marjorie Taylor Greene got a standing ovation from some GOP lawmakers for battling Democratic efforts to strip the Republican…
House Republicans Vote To Keep Liz Cheney In Leadership
House Republicans voted to keep Republican Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney in her leadership position on Wednesday night.
Liz Cheney Survives Vote to Oust Her as House GOP Conference Chair
Liz Cheney survived a leadership challenge Wednesday night after most Republicans voted to keep her as the third-ranking House Republican.
Ilhan Omar: Republican Base Is Now 'Cowards,' 'Grifters,' 'Looney Tunes'
Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) said Friday on MSNBC's "All In" said the Republican base was "now is conspiracy theorists. It’s cowards. It’s opportunists. It’s grifters." | Clips
Republican lawmakers voted 145 to 61 on Wednesday in a secret ballot to keep the Trump-hater in leadership. They really, really hate their voters. Liz Cheney spoke to reporters after the vote and took a swipe at her Republican detractors. Cheney voted to impeach Trump and gave Democrats their talking points during their sham impeachment…
UPDATE— Liz Cheney held on to her position in House Leadership on Wednesday following a secret ballot. Republican lawmakers chose Liz Cheney over their voters. Previously———- President Trump won the largest ever Republican vote in US history and picked up Latinos, Blacks, Gays, Immigrants, and Democrat voters in the process. If not for the fraud…
House GOP Keeps Liz Cheney As No. 3 Leader, Stands By Marjorie Taylor Greene
House Republicans overwhelmingly rebuffed a rebellion by hard-right conservatives to toss Rep. Cheney over her vote last month to impeach Trump.
Rep. Liz Cheney to stay in House GOP leadership after vote to remove her fails
Rep. Liz Cheney will remain in House Republican leadership after vote to remove her fails 145-61.
McCarthy moves to keep splintering GOP intact, with protection for both Cheney and Greene
Republicans voted to reject a call for Rep. Liz Cheney’s resignation over her support for Trump’s impeachment and declined to take concrete action against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
A wild day that defined the Republican Party
Rep. Liz Cheney survived to fight another battle but on a raucous and defining day, the appeasement of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene by House Republicans sent their party lurching further down the road to extremism.
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