Does anybody know if CNN is looking to bring on staff another Republican who attacks Republicans? Former President Donald Trump would be the perfect candidate.
In the past five days, Trump has sent out press statements attacking GOP Rep. Liz Cheney three times (twice in one day) and Sen. Mitt Romney once.
He did, however, manage to get in a kind word on Sen. Josh Hawley’s book about Twitter, so there’s that, at least.
Yeah, I know. Cheney is a Trump critic, and Romney voted to remove him from office during the second impeachment. But the process of taking care of Cheney is already underway. It looks like House leadership is diminishing her role within the party this week. The House Republican Conference will soon vote to remove her as its chairwoman, which means she won’t be able to lead GOP meetings held in private (Oooh snap!) and will be replaced by a better team player. As for Romney, that vote against Trump was months ago, and, unlike Cheney, he hasn’t said a word about it since.
I’m not above holding grudges against show horses such as Romney and party defectors such as Cheney. But if there were ever a time to let bygones be bygones in politics, it’s when you just had all of your power zeroed out in Washington in an election that cost Republicans the White House and the Senate.
The debate within the party over its direction is certainly legitimate. Too many elected Republicans believe that now that Trump has been ousted, they can tell all of the voters he brought into the fold to shut up and go along to get along.
That’s the Cheney attitude, and it looks like she’ll pay for it. But if Trump were serious about wanting Republicans to retake both chambers of Congress in the fast-approaching 2022 election, he wouldn’t do the work of Democrats and the media he claims to hate by creating a gladiatorlike spectacle and taking an ax to the heads of members of his own party.
“After being loudly booed at the Utah Republican Party Convention, Utah’s Weber County censured RINO Mitt Romney in the strongest of terms,” one Trump statement blared on Monday. “Washington County Republicans also censured Romney in April. He is BAD NEWS for our Country!”
Huh. I guess there wasn’t a single Democrat in Washington who the current leader of the Republican Party could attack that day. Oh well!
It’s not like we aren’t currently averaging nearly 700 COVID-19-related deaths per day under a new Democratic president. It’s not like expert economists everywhere aren’t warning of an obscene level of inflation heading our way, thanks to trillions of dollars in unnecessary spending just passed by a Democrat-controlled Congress (with surely more to come). It’s not like Biden, by absurdly paying people to stay home and not work through September, doesn’t have employers desperately searching for anyone willing to take a job.
The economy was kneecapped by the pandemic in 2020. Biden, along with Democrats in Congress, is making it worse in hopes of normalizing more of their welfare programs and reducing the national GDP. Save the planet!
And, oh, the irony of Trump having lit a new fire within the GOP to fix our absolute mess of a southern border only to see it further deteriorate under Biden but regard it now as an afterthought.
All of that comes a distant fourth to Trump’s trifling obsession with who gets to lead the House GOP conference meetings.
Second and third are his hair and makeup.
But if he’s interested in working at CNN, I think they have people to manage that for him.
