Thursday, February 4, 2021

Op eds. Two to draw from.

The Tribune ran a couple of interesting op eds regarding recent stories involving or surrounding Representative Cheney.

The first was by a former head of the Wyoming Republican Party, Ron Micheli. Micheli is highly conservative but of the traditional Republican type. He's on record lamenting the alt right drift of the GOP in Wyoming.

He now writes opinion pieces, and his on recent events can be found here:

Micheli: We have seen gadflies like Gaetz before

Of note, Gaetz in not only portrayed as a gadfly by Micheli, the headline says Gaetz is. Backing this up, Gaetz stated yesterday he was willing to resign from the House to defend Donald Trump in the upcoming impeachment trial, if Trump were to ask.

Trump's not going to ask.

Trump's legal problems have really created an odd sideshow for politicians who want to try to advance their careers in odd legal ways by associating themselves with him. Ted Cruz, for example, earlier offered to argue one of Trump's election challenge cases in front of the Supreme Court, as if having Ted Cruz argue that case does anything much more than to advance the career of Ted Cruz. Really silly.

The other was by Christine Hillegass, a psychologist living in Livingston Montana.

Hillegass: Voting her conscience is a positive

Micheli's opinions can't be discounted, given his relationship to the GOP. Hillegass' probably can be by some, as she lives in Montana, not Wyoming, but they're interesting nonetheless.

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