{"id":501451,"date":"2021-05-12T18:21:04","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T22:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=501451"},"modified":"2021-05-12T18:21:08","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T22:21:08","slug":"a-hair-on-fire-emergency-leftists-react-to-liz-cheneys-ouster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-hair-on-fire-emergency-leftists-react-to-liz-cheneys-ouster\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A Hair-On-Fire Emergency\u2019: Leftists React To Liz Cheney\u2019s Ouster"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fa-hair-on-fire-emergency-leftists-react-to-liz-cheneys-ouster%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=501451&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1227725986.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>A constitutional republic is fragile \u2014 but according to the legacy media, democracy has been hanging on Liz Cheney\u2019s position as chair of the House Republican Conference. To hear hyperventilating talking heads tell it, democracy has now been obliterated.<\/p>\n<p>Some have even presented this morning\u2019s voice vote to oust Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) from her position as the House\u2019s third most powerful Republican as the death knell of democracy, part of the GOP\u2019s \u201cclear agenda\u201d to make sure \u201cthe next coup doesn\u2019t fail,\u201d a self-hating act of misogyny by Republican women, and an act of courage that makes Liz Cheney the next Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Joan of Arc rolled into one.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a breakdown of the most absurd reactions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A plan to steal the 2022 and 2024 elections<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Salon scribbler and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmandaMarcotte\/status\/1392295199754293248\">CNN<\/a> \u201cexpert\u201d Amanda Marcotte gave the most extreme opinion (as usual). \u201cCheney\u2019s ouster should make it clear to anyone on Capitol Hill that Republicans aren\u2019t kidding about their clear agenda to end democracy as we know it,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmandaMarcotte\/status\/1392534492854751233\">tweeted<\/a>. \u201cThe GOP is coalescing around a plan to steal the 2022 and 2024 elections and purge any party members who dissent. This is a hair-on-fire emergency, but Democrats aren\u2019t even treating it like a priority,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmandaMarcotte\/status\/1392535013086973957\">continued<\/a> Marcotte, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2007\/02\/16\/marcotte\/\">lost<\/a> her job on John Edwards\u2019 2008 presidential campaign because of <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/story?id=2871447&#038;page=1\">anti-Christian\/anti-Catholic<\/a> comments. \u201cBig picture here: Trump attempted a coup just a few months ago. Now Republicans are lining up their ducks so the next coup doesn\u2019t fail. And Democrats are\u2026.not doing anything to stop them. This is super bad. We are super f***ed,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmandaMarcotte\/status\/1392536720906801156\">concluded<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.8255033557047\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cheney&#8217;s ouster should make it clear to anyone on Capitol Hill that Republicans aren&#8217;t kidding about their clear agenda to end democracy as we know it. So why are the filibuster addicts still burying their heads in the sand? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UBJSLNjdqW\">https:\/\/t.co\/UBJSLNjdqW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmandaMarcotte\/status\/1392534492854751233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 12, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong> An act of sexism, perpetrated by Republican women<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NBC News ran an article accusing Rep. Elise Stefanik and her colleagues of committing a \u201cruthless violation of the Woman Code\u201d for preparing to replace one woman in leadership with another. \u201cThis coup against the last honest Republican woman in Congress was engineered by several powerful men (among them Trump, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and House Minority Whip Steve Scalise),\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/know-your-value\/feature\/liz-cheney-elise-stefanik-gop-s-ruthless-violation-woman-code-ncna1266920?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma\">wrote<\/a> Sophia A. Nelson in a feature article posted on NBC News\u2019 website. \u201cBut it was endorsed and enabled by dozens of compliant women.\u201d (Apparently, only women who vote according to NBC\u2019s party line are rebellious.) As such, \u201cThe Republican women of Congress\u201d are denying that \u201c[<em>e<\/em>]<em>very <\/em>woman who walks this Earth, no matter her race, religion or politics, has value.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.604651162791\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sophia A. Nelson: The coup against Rep. Cheney was engineered by several powerful men (among them fmr. President Trump, House Minority Leader McCarthy, and House Minority Whip Scalise). But it was endorsed and enabled by dozens of compliant women.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ks2vb0e1Pu\">https:\/\/t.co\/Ks2vb0e1Pu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MSNBC (@MSNBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MSNBC\/status\/1392524485170012166?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 12, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Existential for democracy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CNN\u2019s Dana Bash said the 2,500-year-old notion of Athenian democracy itself hangs in the balance after the Cheney vote. \u201cThis is existential, not just for the GOP; it is existential for democracy,\u201d said Bash, the network\u2019s chief political correspondent. She added that \u201c[t]his country needs a viable, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/msnbc-guest-al-qaeda-terrorists-have-got-nothing-on-the-republican-party\">two-party political system<\/a>, at least, to exist, and that is on the brink and in danger of collapsing.\u201d Far from being a calculated strategy to become the next Republican media darling, Cheney\u2019s outspoken anti-Trump speech on the House floor \u201creads to me like someone who is facing a political public execution and wants to be heard before that political execution happens,\u201d said Bash.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Democracy dies in lies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Daily Beast implied that democracy has already collapsed in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/coward-kevin-mccarthy-bows-before-the-big-lie-axes-liz-cheney-and-begs-trump-to-eat-him-last?via=desktop&#038;social=Linkedin\">sub-headline<\/a> to an opinion piece posted shortly after this morning\u2019s vote. \u201cDemocracy dies in lies, and so may the minority leader\u2019s dream of ascending to the speakership,\u201d it said. Writers do not usually headline their own stories, but we can credit Margaret Carlson with her own words: Her opening sentence blamed Republicans for \u201cthe crime of banishing Liz Cheney\u201d from leadership.<\/p>\n<p><strong> Liz Cheney, the next Ronald Reagan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Joe Scarborough, the morning anchor of ultra-liberal MSNBC\u2019s programming schedule, said that \u201cas a conservative\u201d he recognizes Liz Cheney\u2019s ouster as \u201ca piece of history.\u201d He added that Cheney\u2019s floor speech, in which she said those who question the 2020 election \u201cfeed Communist propaganda,\u201d marks her as a conservative leader in the mold of a Reagan or Thatcher:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"10\">\n<p><em>As a conservative, you look back to those moments where somebody steps into the limelight and leads a movement. I think about Reagan in 1966. I think about Margaret Thatcher in 1975 in Britain, and her address before the Conservative Party; she sort of sweeps away the lectern and shows everybody who\u2019s in control there. Liz Cheney could well be that person in 2021.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong> Liz Cheney, virgin martyr<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cast members of ABC\u2019s \u201cThe View\u201d likened Liz to a literal martyr, the Catholic saint Joan of Arc. Joy Behar canonized Cheney as \u201cthe Joan of Arc standing up to the heretics\u201d of \u201cthe QAnon party.\u201d Co-host Sara Haines agreed that Cheney has greater spiritual purity than other Republicans, because \u201cthey will sell their souls for political gains.\u201d (Surely, that\u2019s a first in politics.)<\/p>\n<p><em>Ben Johnson is the Media Reporter at The Daily Wire. He previously worked at the Acton Institute, FrontPage Magazine, and LifeSiteNews. He\u2019s the author of three books, including\u00a0<\/em>Party of Defeat<em>\u00a0(2008, with David Horowitz).\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A constitutional republic is fragile \u2014 but according to the legacy media, democracy has been hanging on Liz Cheney\u2019s position as chair of the House Republican Conference. 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