{"id":2088394,"date":"2023-11-02T17:34:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T21:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liz-cheney-gets-on-her-high-horse-to-bash-dangerous-speaker-johnson\/"},"modified":"2023-11-02T17:37:51","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T21:37:51","slug":"liz-cheney-gets-on-her-high-horse-to-bash-dangerous-speaker-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liz-cheney-gets-on-her-high-horse-to-bash-dangerous-speaker-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Liz Cheney criticizes &#8216;dangerous&#8217; Speaker Johnson from a high pedestal."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fliz-cheney-gets-on-her-high-horse-to-bash-dangerous-speaker-johnson%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2088394&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Liz Cheney \u2064Gets on Her High Horse to \u200cBash \u2064&#8217;Dangerous&#8217; Speaker Johnson<\/h2>\n<p>In perhaps what is \u200dthe most ringing endorsement of him yet, former Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz\u200b Cheney\u2062 called House \u200dSpeaker Mike Johnson \u2014 a principled conservative and a man of deep faith \u2014 \u201cdangerous\u201d to \u2062democracy.<\/p>\n<p>The daughter of former Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/dick-cheney-slings-personal-insults-donald-trump-last-minute-attack-ad-daughter-liz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dick Cheney<\/a>, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/POLITICS\/01\/04\/cheney.nsa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">staunchly defended<\/a> \u2064allowing\u200c the federal government to spy on Americans through the Patriot Act, is concerned that the Louisiana congressman\u200d is now the leading House Republican.<\/p>\n<p>For\u2064 the record, that is a caucus Cheney\u200d is no longer part of because she undemocratically refused to\u2063 represent Wyoming voters during her final term.<\/p>\n<p>She instead joined pro-abortion, pro-death, pro-chaos <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/democrats-scrambling-save-biden-humiliation-new-hampshire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democrats<\/a> by prominently \u200csitting on a \u2064committee with them as they attempted to \u2064portray the Jan. 6,\u2062 2021,\u200c Capitol incursion as\u200b the most dangerous moment\u2063 in American history.<\/p>\n<p>Wyoming voters\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/hours-brutal-primary-loss-liz-cheney-announces-new-group-teases-2024-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tossed her out \u2064of office<\/a>, but she\u2062 refuses to accept \u200dthe will\u200d of the people and go away.<\/p>\n<p>This week, \u200bshe appeared on \u2063the University of Virginia Center for Politics\u2019 \u201cPolitics Is Everything\u201d podcast\u2063 to spout off about Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>Cheney <a href=\"https:\/\/centerforpolitics.org\/staff\/liz-cheney\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">teaches at the school<\/a> \u2014 no \u2062doubt droning on to young people about the evils of questioning the results \u2064of an election\u200c that was administered in battleground states by \u2064mail with \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liz-cheney-gets-on-her-high-horse-to-bash-dangerous-speaker-johnson\/\" title=\"Liz Cheney criticizes 'dangerous' Speaker Johnson from a high pedestal.\">questionable ballot counting procedures<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The former congresswoman found a way to insert the 2020 election into her comments on the \u2064podcast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMike \u2064is somebody that I knew well,\u201d she said \u2063of the country\u2019s new speaker. \u201cWe were elected together. \u2026 Our offices\u2062 were next to each other. \u200bAnd, you know, \u200bMike is somebody who says that he\u2019s committed to defending the Constitution. But that\u2019s not what he did when we were all tested in the aftermath of the 2020 election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/congress-house-speaker-2024-election-certification-8cd7c5a9e6ae69635bbb4624cc78e5c5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voted<\/a> not to certify the results of that election, which\u200d Cheney\u2063 said makes him \u201cdangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She\u2063 told the \u201cPolitics Is Everything\u201d podcast that the Louisiana congressman was \u201cacting in ways that he knew to be wrong\u201d when he questioned a questionable election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that the country unfortunately will come to see the measure of his\u200c character,\u201d Cheney said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my view,\u200b he was willing to set aside what \u200dhe knew to be \u2062the rulings of the courts,\u2064 the requirements\u2064 of the Constitution, in order to \u2063placate Donald Trump, \u200cin \u200dorder to gain praise from Donald Trump, for political \u200dexpedience. And so it\u2019s a concerning moment\u200d to have him be, having been elected speaker of \u2063the House.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-embed\">\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/graduates-turn-backs-liz-cheney-gives-commencement-speech-one-brutal-message-cap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cheney<\/a> \u200dadded, \u201cOne of the reasons why somebody \u2062like\u200d Mike Johnson\u200d is dangerous is because when you have\u200b elected\u200b Republicans who know better, elected\u200c Republicans who know the\u2062 truth but yet \u200cwill go along with the efforts to undermine\u2062 our republic, the efforts, frankly, \u2063that Donald Trump undertook to overturn \u2062the election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn order for the party \u200band\u2064 therefore the country to move away from Donald Trump, he\u2019s got to be defeated.\u200b But that means that people who \u200dknow better have to recognize the stakes. They have to \u200brecognize this isn\u2019t a game. This isn\u2019t politics \u200das usual.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re dealing with somebody who, if he\u200d were elected to another term, would most assuredly\u200c begin\u200d the process very quickly of attempting to consolidate power and,\u2064 frankly, undo the institutions that protect our freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Liz_Cheney?\">@Liz_Cheney<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UVA?\">@uva<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Center4Politics?\">@Center4Politics<\/a> Professor of \u200bPractice, says new House Speaker Mike Johnson is \u201cdangerous\u201d.\u200c Hear her reasons in our exclusive \u200cinterview on a new episode of the Center for Politics\u2019 podcast \u201cPolitics Is Everything.\u201d Listen here or wherever you \u2062pod:\u2026\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xZgBRGmZHu\">pic.twitter.com\/xZgBRGmZHu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Larry Sabato (@LarrySabato) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LarrySabato\/status\/1719693360275820656?\">November 1, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Deep down, it\u2019s difficult to imagine Cheney isn\u2019t simply seething because she\u2062 isn\u2019t speaker \u2013 even though \u200cjust a few <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/overtly-politicized-inside-manchins-filibuster-war-against-the-democrats\/\" title=\"\u2018Overtly Politicized\u2019: Inside Manchin\u2019s Filibuster War Against The Democrats\">short years ago<\/a> her career trajectory could have led her anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Laughably, not only did her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-jeffrey-epstein-helped-a-rising-democratic-star-pull-off-a-political-upset\/\" title=\"Jeffrey Epstein's Role in Democratic Star's Political Upset\">political career end<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/liz-cheney-lashes-gop-voters-humiliating-primary-loss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a blowout<\/a> in the \u200b2022 Wyoming primary but \u2062she\u200b was removed by\u2062 her\u200b House Republican colleagues as chair of the\u2064 House Republican Conference for being a turncoat.<\/p>\n<p>A relic of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/hannitys-rebuke-gop-radical-abortion-justifies-americas-disappointment-uniparty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">uniparty<\/a> conservatism, Cheney\u2019s career ended the moment former President Donald Trump won the\u200d 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p>None of us knew it at the time, but that \u2063election ended the grift for people such as Cheney, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/republican-congressman-reveals-paul-ryan-pushed-go-anti-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul Ryan<\/a>, \u200cBill Kristol and each\u200d of\u2064 the reprobates who\u200d founded the Lincoln Project.<\/p>\n<p>Like those other fossils of \u2063a bygone era, Cheney has been reduced \u200bto\u2063 sniping at\u200c people who actually work to achieve policies they\u200b promised to enact on behalf of voters.<\/p>\n<p>Cheney\u2019s veil is off and in \u2064spite of her years misrepresenting one\u200c of the country\u2019s most conservative states, we\u2019re better off having had her in Congress if it helped \u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/kassy-dillon-donald-trump-helped-conservative-movement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the conservative movement<\/a> rid itself \u2064of her and \u200bher \u2062ilk.<\/p>\n<p>Being called \u2063\u201cdangerous\u201d by someone such as Liz Cheney is the ultimate compliment for a man such as Johnson.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>A Note from Our\u200c Deputy Managing Editor:<\/h3>\n<p>I \u2064walked into the office one morning and noticed something strange. Half of \u200cThe Western Journal\u2019s readership was missing.<\/p>\n<p>It had finally\u200b happened. Facebook had flipped THE switch.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it was because we wrote about ivermectin. Or election integrity. Or the Jan. 6 detainees. Or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-judge-rules-arizona-activist-group-can-monitor-maricopa-county-ballot-drop-boxes\/\" title=\"Federal Judge Rules Arizona Activist Group Can Monitor Maricopa County Ballot Drop Boxes\">ballot mules<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the reason, I immediately\u2062 knew what to \u200ddo. We had to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\">turn to you<\/a> because, frankly, we know you are the only ones we can trust.<\/p>\n<p><b>Can\u2063 you help? <\/b>Every <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\">donation<\/a> to The Western Journal goes directly to\u2062 funding our team of story researchers, writers and editors who doggedly pursue the truth and expose the \u200bcorrupt elites.<\/p>\n<p>Can I count on you for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\">small donation<\/a>? We\u200c operate on a shoestring compared to\u200b other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-rep-jim-jordan-joe-bidens-deliberate-support-of-illegal-immigration-could-lead-to-impeachment\/\" title=\"Exclusive \u2014 Rep. Jim Jordan: Joe Biden's 'Deliberate' Support of Illegal Immigration Could Lead to Impeachment\">news media companies<\/a>, so \u200dI can personally promise that not a penny of \u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\">your donation<\/a> will \u200bbe wasted.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>We will use every single cent to fight \u2062against \u200bthe lies and corruption in high places. <b>And as long as we have <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><b>your \u2062help<\/b><\/a><b>,\u2064 we will never give up.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Josh Manning<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Managing Editor<\/p>\n<p>The Western Journal<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How has Johnson\u200d consistently advocated for\u2062 conservative principles and defended the Constitution \u2063throughout his career?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  M his supporters,\u201d \u2064she added.<\/p>\n<p>Cheney seems \u200dto have forgotten that Johnson&#8217;s vote to not \u200ccertify the election results was based on legitimate concerns about the\u200d integrity \u200dof the election process. Many Americans had doubts about the\u2064 widespread use\u200b of mail-in ballots, the questionable ballot counting procedures, and the lack of transparency\u2064 in certain battleground states. These\u200c concerns were not\u200b unfounded, and Johnson was simply exercising his duty \u2063as\u2064 a representative to\u200b voice these concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Cheney&#8217;s assertion that\u2064 Johnson was trying to placate Donald Trump and gain praise\u2063 from his supporters is \u200dbaseless and shows her clear bias against anyone who aligns themselves with the \u2063former president. \u2064Johnson\u200b has consistently advocated for conservative principles\u200b and has shown his commitment\u2063 to defending \u2062the\u200c Constitution throughout his career.<\/p>\n<p>It is ironic that Cheney, who has\u200b repeatedly shown a disregard for the will of \u200bthe\u200b people, is now criticizing \u200dJohnson for supposedly undermining democracy. During \u2062her \u2063final term in office, she failed to represent the voters of Wyoming\u200d and instead aligned herself\u200b with Democrats \u2064who sought \u2063to push a divisive agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Cheney&#8217;s participation in the committee that sought to\u200d portray\u200d the January 6th Capitol incursion as the most dangerous moment in American history is a clear example of \u2062her willingness to exploit \u2062a tragic event for political gain. This narrative\u2063 has been widely debunked, with evidence showing\u2064 that the actions of a few individuals do not represent the\u200d intentions or beliefs of the millions of peaceful\u200d protesters who attended the rally that \u2063day.<\/p>\n<p>It is time for Liz Cheney to accept the will of the people of Wyoming and step aside. Her \u2062attempts to undermine and criticize principled conservatives like Mike\u200b Johnson only serve\u200c to further divide the Republican Party and hinder its ability \u200dto effectively counter the destructive agenda of the Democrats. Wyoming deserves better representation, and it is clear that Cheney\u200c is \u2063no longer the right person for the job.<\/p>\n<p>Instead \u200dof casting baseless insults and accusations,\u200d Cheney\u200b should\u2062 focus on rebuilding \u2063her political career and\u200d regaining the trust \u200bof the voters she failed to represent. Only then can she hope to \u200bhave any credibility in her criticisms of others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, daughter of ex-Vice President Dick Cheney, labeled House Speaker Mike Johnson as a &#8220;dangerous&#8221; threat to democracy. 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