Liz Cheney, who is now a private citizen after she left her Congressional post in January, joined those expressing outrage Monday at the push from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) for what the Georgia Congresswoman termed a national divorce, which is weird conservative-speak for breaking up the United States.
What Greene is so flippantly advocating amounts to a scenario in which political violence, potentially including the deaths of innocent civilians like took place in connection with the Capitol riot, could be reasonably expected if not guaranteed. After all, how exactly would she implement that clownish proposition? Isn’t she supposed to be trying to do her job as a member of the U.S. government instead of taking the cowardly approach of wanting to bow out, as though she didn’t literally ask voters what are now two election cycles in a row to be in her position?
“Let’s review some of the governing principles of America, @mtgreenee,” Cheney posted on her personal account on Twitter. “Our country is governed by the Constitution. You swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution. Secession is unconstitutional. No member of Congress should advocate secession, Marjorie.” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) is another prominent figure who’s spoken in similar terms, discussing how it’s ridiculous for those seeking some kind of foundation for their actions challenging the fabric of U.S. government to claim they have a basis for their violent tantrums in the Constitution. And elsewhere, Denver Riggleman, who is a former GOP Congressman and helped with the House investigation into the Capitol riot that Cheney assisted with leading, questioned on Twitter Monday how Greene can even be considered still qualified to still be on the House committee dealing with homeland security.
The utter lack of even a semblance of reasonably intellectual grounding to Greene’s rhetoric is exemplified by the fact that it’s impossible to separate the United States into “red” and “blue” locales with any degree of effectiveness. There are, after all, millions of Republicans in California — and even a lot in places like New York City! — and in Georgia the state’s two Senators are Democrats, but its governor is a two-term Republican. That trend continues across the country. There is, though, obviously the problem of Greene’s nonsense helping inspire new instances of scattered political violence like the Capitol attack, even as her ideas keep failing.
Let’s review some of the governing principles of America, @mtgreenee:
Our country is governed by the Constitution. You swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution.
Secession is unconstitutional. No member of Congress should advocate secession, Marjorie. https://t.co/XE3cQXYrnl— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) February 20, 2023
