TODD: So, Elise Stefanik is in and Liz Cheney is out. So now watch what happens. The mockingbird media will now make Liz Cheney the face of the “thoughtful” GOP. She\u2019s the new Mitt Romney. She\u2019s already… Someone asked her, “Are you gonna run for president? To keep President Trump from getting into the White House, are you gonna run for president?” And she hasn\u2019t ruled this out.<\/p>\n
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There is a group of young legislators up-and-coming in some of these blue states if we stop H.R. 1, which is the Democrats seizing control over all elections so that they are no longer elections. If we stall the court-packing scheme, and if we get true election integrity in the states, this young, new wave of Republican legislators who\u2019ve come up in states like New York, they know how to win elections in those places.<\/p>\n
At some point, there has to be a whiplash, because people will at some point this stuff will start to harm them. Like in New York, 40% of businesses are gone and commercial real estate\u2019s tanking, and people are fleeing to Florida and to Texas. There will be… There has to be, there\u2019s an inevitable backlash. Eventually. Even now. Like Fauci\u2019s scaring people into compliance thing finally folded in the face of the polls for Biden.<\/p>\n
So there\u2019s people. For instance, Assemblyman Colin Schmitt from New York, is very good, solid young conservative. I think Colin is running for Congress. So Elise represents the people who just have this insane notion of, “What if we…? What if we put America First? What if we rebuilt the lifeboat of the world? What if we had our interests at heart?<\/p>\n
“What if instead of buying (as John Kerry wanted us to do) useless, inefficient windmills from the Chinese Communist Party manufactured by people in concentration camps — slaves — we just became energy independent?” So Liz Cheney is out of GOP leadership, Elise Stefanik is in, and Rush would be really pleased with this news. He admired Stefanik\u2019s tenacity during hearings about Trump\u2019s phone call (laughing) with the president of Ukraine. You remember that phony conversation that Shifty Schiff made up?<\/a><\/p>\n RUSH: A lot of people are going to say that Marie Yovanovitch is a sympathetic figure because it\u2019s just the easiest way to show you support a woman. Why don\u2019t you think Schiff isn\u2019t going to let a woman question her? So Mrs. Stefanik, the Republican woman congresswoman, wants to ask her some questions. “Nunes can\u2019t allocate any of his time to you.”<\/p>\n She doesn\u2019t want another woman asking her questions because there goes the whole idea that there might be some sexism here. Because if Trump is involved, there has to be, right? Now, you might not think this is any big deal. I am an etymologist. I am a student of words. I am a student of the usage of words and how they are selectively used to manipulate the emotions of people.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>It\u2019s very easily done, very easy to do, and it is being done here. By declaring that she is a sympathetic figure, you\u2019re automatically conferring upon her total credibility and honesty without examining what she\u2019s saying. You\u2019re giving her a pass by calling her a sympathetic figure. By saying she\u2019s a sympathetic figure, you can\u2019t challenge her. She gets a free pass. She\u2019s a sympathetic figure. And yet, ladies and gentlemen, she was let go in May, two months before the phone call the whistle-blower lied about, two months before the phone call Schiff lied about.<\/p>\n