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Liz Cheney Derides Jim Banks' GOP Working-Class Memo as Neo-Marxist
2021-04-06
[BREITBART] House Republican Conference chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) slammed Republican Study Committee Chairman Jim Banks’ (R-IN) memo Monday as Neo-Marxist.

Banks wrote a letter to House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy
...the GOP house majority whip. He replaces Eric Cantor, who got whupped because his politix are like Kevin McCarthy's...
(R-CA) in March, charging that House Republicans must embrace issues important to working-class voters if they wish to take back the House majority during the 2022 midterm elections.

"President Trump gave the Republican Party a political gift: we are now the party supported by most working-class voters," the Hoosier Republican wrote in the memo. "The question is whether Republicans reject that gift or unwrap it and permanently become the Party of the Working Class."

However,
there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened...
not all members of the House Republican Conference agree with Banks’ sentiment.

During a call with the Congressional Institute last week, Cheney rebuked the call for making the Republican Party the party of working-class voters.

"Cheney argued the GOP is not the party of class warfare and that dividing society into classes while attacking the private sector is neo-Marxist and wrong," Politico’s Melanie Zanona wrote.

Cheney’s attacks against Banks’ memo highlighted a stark contrast between the competing visions for the House Republican Conference. In Cheney’s view, the House GOP would embrace the more traditional, establishment positions of former House Speakers John It is not pronounced 'Boner!' Boehner
... the occasionally weepy former establishmentarian leader of House Republicans...
and Paul Ryan
...Former Speaker of the House, U.S. Representative for Wisconsin's 1st congressional district, serving since 1999. He is a member of the Republican Party. He proposed an alternative to President Obama's 2011 budget and made himself the target of both Democrat and Republican verbal pies...
. In Banks’ vision, Republicans would embrace the working-class coalition Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
established in 2016.

"Democrats will keep alienating working-class voters because that’s what their donors demand, and Republicans should welcome them with open arms by fully embracing an agenda that’s worthy of their support," Banks wrote in his memo to McCarthy.

Further, while Cheney has engendered controversy with her vote to impeach then-President Donald Trump, according to the Washington Post, Banks has been "helping to drive GOP messaging the Democrat plans."

"They feel like America is dramatically changing right before their eyes — I hear it everywhere I go," Banks said Monday regarding voters’ concerns during the House recess.
Posted by:Fred

#14  Walter Russell Meade?

Some absurdly overrated blogger cuts and pastes his stuff every week.
Posted by: M. Murcek    2021-04-06 18:13  

#13  Liz Cheney's a fucking moron. Banks' logic is sound, and she's shitting on him for wanting to grab, perhaps permanently, a large voting bloc?

I don't know what business she ought to be in but with piss poor instincts like this, it ain't politics.
Posted by: Raj   2021-04-06 16:23  

#12  One of Walter Russell Meade's Hamiltonians? An elitist? Smug, too
Posted by: magpie   2021-04-06 15:42  

#11  too bad she didn't hunt with her father.
Posted by: irish rage boy   2021-04-06 15:13  

#10  She wants the GOP to be the party of the elites? Democrats have that one locked solid and she hasn't noticed?
Perhaps she wants the GOP to be the party of the poor?
Woops, Dems have been making people poor for decades, they own the poor.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2021-04-06 12:25  

#9  No wonder her husband was such a Rhino.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589   2021-04-06 11:18  

#8  Well, she is an expert on Neo-Marxism. She pushes it all the time.
Posted by: DarthVader   2021-04-06 08:36  

#7  There ain't no Country Club Republicans any more -- or not enough of them to override the proto-Democrat Karens and pearl-clutchers in the tonier suburbs.

Cheney and the other clueless NeverTrumpers can't recognize the stark reality of Woke America: this mad movement is driven mainly by a group of upper middle-class overeducated white BLM-symps who are lost, forever, to Republican candidates.
Posted by: Marilyn Jemble5837   2021-04-06 05:58  

#6  Primaried politician squawking.
Posted by: Unising Lumumba8103   2021-04-06 05:15  

#5  I'll have to see what they say down at the Country Club.
Posted by: Fred   2021-04-06 03:49  

#4  /\ EH, do you know what you are saying? Disagree, who me? No, not in he least.
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-04-06 03:06  

#3  Oh shut up, you upper-class piece of shit.

It's our party now. F off.
Posted by: Elmung Hatrack5948   2021-04-06 02:54  

#2  The Republican Party has moved on, but there she stands athwart History, ineffectively screaming, “STOP!”

M. I have a question about your book reco. Please meet me in the O Club. Thank you!
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-04-06 00:49  

#1  If she isn't voted out, Wyoming is screwed.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-04-06 00:13  

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