Rejected Republican politician Liz Cheney made yet another bad decision over the weekend when she decided to spar with Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) over a pending bill that will send $60 billion taxpayer dollars to Ukraine.
“If just 41 Senate Republicans oppose cloture on the Ukraine aid bill tomorrow, they can stop it from passing,” Lee said Saturday in a tweet. “Democrats can’t pass this thing on their own. Republicans have to help them do it.”
Sadly, there is no shortage of moderate Republicans willing to align with Democrats, beginning with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Cheney got her sidelined neo-con self into the game when she went at Lee for opposing more funding for Ukraine, proving in the process that she still has Russia in her head: “[Sen. Mike Lee] is hard at work trying to lose the war in Ukraine and Make Russia Great Again.”
.@BasedMikeLee is hard at work trying to lose the war in Ukraine and Make Russia Great Again. https://t.co/5FaMeG3Uk2
— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) February 10, 2024
This is the familiar argument for D.C. war hawks who insist that anyone who doesn’t want to keep pouring billions of dollars into a corrupt country to support a war they cannot win is a Putin lover.
Sen. Lee has been around long enough to know the game.
“Ah, so you’re suggesting no one could have any objection to the Ukraine aid bill that doesn’t involve trying to help Russia. How clever. How original. Is that really all the Military Industrial Complex™️ can come up with?” he replied.
Ah, so you’re suggesting no one could have any objection to the Ukraine aid bill that doesn’t involve trying to help Russia.
How clever.
How original.
Is that really all the Military Industrial Complex™️ can come up with? https://t.co/6GbDHen1Cg
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) February 11, 2024
Zing!
Lee spoke for nearly four hours from the Senate floor on Saturday in opposition to a bill that would provide $60 billion to Ukraine, $14 billion in security assistance to Israel, $9 billion for humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza, the West Bank and Ukraine, and $4.8 billion to the Indo-Pacific.
This is the bill that was stripped of any protections for the southern border with Mexico — Lee called for new GOP leadership in the Senate over the bill, saying it is time to replace McConnell.
“I think all of us would like to see Ukraine just win. We can’t wish it into existence. We can’t just dump enough money into it to make it happen, ” Lee said from the Senate floor. “On the contrary, economic aid by some measures, it is proving to be a colossal waste of money.”
Social media users jumped at the chance to spew venom at Cheney, who many see as a turncoat over her feud with Donald Trump.
Here’s a quick sampling of responses to the story, as seen on X:
Mike, you did more in a four hour speech for Americans than Liz did in her entire political career. In her heart it is not about you, but some boogey man named Donald J. Trump. She was rejected by her district for a reason. Her mask came down.
— Skopos (@TweepleBug) February 11, 2024
She’s so bitter and exactly what we are fighting against.
Not worth your time.
— Amy Kremer (@AmyKremer) February 11, 2024
The last time we saw Liz, she was taking a historic beating in her home state of Wyoming, where she didn’t actually live, and now she’s trolling a Senator because she must not have a life.
— Jericho (@JerichoXVI) February 11, 2024
Her dad did the same thing during the Iraq war. It’s a family thing.
— GOPPouncer (@Mellecon) February 11, 2024
Why doesn’t Lizzie Borden Cheney just make it official and become a Democrat?
— Todd Headlee (@ToddHeadleeAZ) February 11, 2024
That’s all she’s got Mike….tired old tag lines. There is no solid justification for their claims for military support.
— orion (@orionsxspear) February 11, 2024
Says the warmonger’s daughter who got every privilege she ever had off the blood of American service members. https://t.co/ynUu1TKSro
— Margo (@MargoinWNC) February 11, 2024
The fact that Cheney cares more about Ukraine than the U.S. border is why she’s no longer in office.
— Wade Miller (@WadeMiller_USMC) February 10, 2024
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Tom Tillison grew up in Maryland before moving to Central Florida as a young teen. It is in the Sunshine State that he honed both his passion for politics and his writing skills. Tillison also contributes to BizPac Review.
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