Fmr GOP Rep: ‘Thoroughly Abhorrent’ if Liz Cheney is Punished for Impeachment Vote and Majorie Taylor Greene is Not for Conspiracy Theories

Former congressman Francis Rooney (R-FL) lamented the possibility that Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-WY) will pay a bigger political price for her impeachment vote than Marjorie Taylor Greene will for her litany of repugnant comments.

Rooney gave an interview to CNN’s John Berman on Tuesday, who noted that Cheney has been under fire from her own party ever since she voted to impeach former president Donald Trump for inciting the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Since Cheney faces the possibility of being removed from her House GOP leadership position, Berman compared that potential demotion to Greene possibly keeping her committee assignments despite years of pushing insane conspiracy theories.

“It’s a real possibility that at the end of today, Marjorie Taylor Greene will still be in Congress with committee assignments, and Liz Cheney will have lost her job in House leadership.” Berman said. “What will it tell you if Liz Cheney is the one to suffer as a result of everything we have seen in the last month?”

“That would be a thoroughly abhorrent result and I hope it doesn’t happen,” Rooney answered. “I applaud Liz for speaking up. I would’ve been right there with her were I still in office. I almost voted to impeach him the first time, got real close to it, spent a lot of time with the speaker discussing it.”

Rooney continued his thought by saying “you just don’t purge someone for a difference of opinion, okay?”

“We’ve got to cast a wide net and have a broad tent in our party if we’re going to be successful,” he said. “And we need to be much more tolerant of different ideas than we appear to be right now.”

Watch above, via CNN.

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