RantWoman has been following the saga of WY congressional representative Liz Cheney and the House Republican leadership.
RantWoman cannot decide what to hope for.
Should RantWoman hope that the House Republican leadership come to their senses and abandon their effort to strip Ms. Cheney of her #3 leadership position?
OR should RantWoman hope the house leadership really is stupid enough to do it no matter how much outraged fundraising and status this action generates among Ms. Cheney's Congressional colleagues on both sides of the aisle?
RantWoman is of course NOT super impressed with Ms. Cheney's all Trump all the way voting record. But then RantWoman's family ties to WY include a grandmother RantWoman never met who, according to family lore wanted to move the family to WY because there were too many brown people in southwestern CO. In other words, one does not always get a choice about who one needs to stick up for.
RantWoman thinks people need to stick up for Ms. Cheney for several reasons.
First of all, SHE CHANGED HER MIND. RantWoman has no information about whether she regrets any of her pro-Trump votes. RantWoman just deeply appreciates Ms. Cheney's integrity. She is willing to stand up to the thankfully ex-president's big lies about the 2020 election.
Second, the WY economy depends heavily on production of oil and natural gas. RantWoman recalls counting oil derricks with the other Rant siblings during a number of family car rides through the vastness of WY on the way to or from visits to the Righteous Rev. RantGranddad If the country is ever going to make progress about climate change, everyone needs to work across the aisle. Republicans need to pull their climate denying heads out of the sand and look out for the interests of states like WY that could just get run over as urban population centers set the energy agenda. There is a lot of Wyoming. There is a lot of wind in Wyoming and plenty of space to replace oil derricks with wind turbines. RantWoman is not an energy economist but RantWoman at 30,000 feet can see a LOT of potential for WY to become a big renewable energy state.
Third, RantWoman is going to sound a feminist historical note: today's WY state Republicans who already voted to censure Ms. Cheney over her impeachment vote are betraying their state's own history. The fact that House leadership want to replace Ms. Cheney with another woman means gender IS important in Republicans' political calculations. Perhaps today's WY Republican party does not realize that women in WY have had the vote since the days when WY was a territory. According to this great and fully accessible to RantWoman really cool article from the National Park Service about Women's suffrage in WY. WY and women's suffrage article women in WY have had the vote since 1869 when WY was a territory. Women retained the vote when WY became a state in 1890, 30 years before 36 states ratified the 19th amendment.
Although it's been awhile since RantWoman has been to WY, RantWoman is pretty sure the entire patriarchy has not yet fallen apart there, women's suffrage history notwithstanding. RantWoman really does not want to speculate about the thinking of the WY republican party as far as gender issues. Well okay, there is the matter of incomprehensible fealty to a twice-divorced genital-grabbing serial philanderer, but other than that... RantWoman does want to point out that it does not seem in the state's best interests overall to remove a strong woman from leadership in the US House of Representatives!
RantWoman has no idea whether any of this is any help to Ms. Cheney or whehter she wants help from the likes of RantWoman in the first place. RantWoman does hope though that there are more hip modern teachers especially in western states who can teach the full history of women's suffrage in the US than there were when RantWoman was in school.
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