On 8/16/2022, as she conceded to Trump-endorsed Harriet Hageman following her loss, Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney delivered a concession speech where she lashed out at President Trump and compared herself to Abraham Lincoln. “Two years ago. I won this primary with 73% of the vote. I could easily have done the same again. The path was clear, but it would’ve required that I go along with President Trump’s lie […] That was a path I could not and would not take,” Cheney said. “Abraham Lincoln was defeated in elections for the Senate and the House before he won the most important election of all,” Cheney said of the 16th president. “Lincoln ultimately prevailed,” Cheney went on. “He saved our union and he defined our obligation as Americans for all of history. Speaking at Gettysburg of the great task remaining before us, Lincoln said, ‘That we here highly resolve that … That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and a government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from this Earth.’
Trump reacted with pure delight to Cheney’s loss, referring to it as a “wonderful result” in a post on Truth Social. “Congratulations to Harriet Hageman on her great and very decisive WIN in Wyoming,” he wrote. “This is a wonderful result for America, and a complete rebuke of the Unselect Committee of political Hacks and Thugs.” “Liz Cheney should be ashamed of herself, the way she acted, and her spiteful, sanctimonious words and actions towards others. Now she can finally disappear into the depths of political oblivion where, I am sure, she will be much happier than she is right now. Thank you WYOMING!” he added. The former president also said: “Liz Cheney’s uninspiring concession speech, in front of a ‘tiny’ crowd in the Great State of Wyoming, focused on her belief that the 2020 Presidential Election was not, despite massive and conclusive evidence to the contrary, Rigged & Stolen.”
An aide to McCarthy pointed Fox News to “comments made by Liz Cheney’s father, Dick Cheney, when he was campaigning in 1976.”Dick Cheney said at the time: “Principle is OK up to a certain point, but principle doesn’t do any good if you lose.” The McCarthy aide called it an “ironic quote from her dad.”
“A clear message is being sent about what the Republican Party needs to be,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) tweeted in response. “It’s not anything like liar Liz Cheney, who is nothing like Abraham Lincoln.”
On 8/12/2022, During debate on the Democrats’ Tax and Spend bill, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy warned of the consequences of their out of control spending. McCarthy used his privilege as party leader to take as much floor time as he wanted. His speech went 50 minutes. “Because that’s their philosophy they know best just like they knew best when they thought 2 trillion would help. They called it the American rescue plan you now have time to see what you have done. Explain to me in the American rescue plan when it raised inflation that took a month’s salary from the American public. What did it rescue who did it help answer me this question is America better off today than they were two years ago? Is the price of gasoline lower it is the price of gasoline is lower today than it was two years?
I guess you believe inflation’s zero too I’m not quite sure about your math. Is grocery lower than it was two years ago? Are the are the car prices lower than it was two years ago or your food prices? I would love a natural debate right here. Why don’t we have that because the American people are having a challenge. You know one of the most successful businesses in America is Walmart. When Walmart wants to look at where the economy is in America they don’t go hire economists. You know what they do they just check the data of Americans on what they buy. For those who answered yes, you ought to study it too. You know what they just look at four products, they look at hamburger buns, hot dog buns, whole wheat and white bread. And you know what if the hamburger buns sales go down and the hot dog bun sales go down and the whole wheat sales go down but the white bread sales go up you’re in an economic crisis. You know why because people no longer can make the decision to have hamburgers with hamburger buns they have to put the white bread there for all of you who said yes.
Why don’t you get out of Washington for a moment and go ask your constituents if they’re better off today than they were two years ago. Because no, gas is not lower, gas is higher and no, the car prices are higher and their food prices are higher and they’re going up each and every day. I can’t believe you would say yes you probably believe the American rescue plan was a good bill you probably believe it’s Putin’s fault too passing this bill.”
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Liz Cheney compares herself to Abraham Lincoln following defeat in Wyoming; McCarthy a month’s salary better than 2 years ago?