'BradCast' 5/12/2021: (Guest: Heather 'Digby' Parton of Salon on GOP House caucus cancelling Liz Cheney)
On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 More than 100 former Republican officials say they will release a letter on Thursday threatening to start a new party if the GOP doesn't disengage from the madness of Trump's Big Lie. They are likely to be disappointed. On Wednesday, the House Republican caucus voted to oust far-right conservative Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) from her role as Conference Chair, the third-highest ranking GOP leadership position in the House, because she refused to repeat Trump's dangerous, baseless claims that the 2020 election was 'stolen' from him. After her ouster, Cheney said she would do everything within her power to ensure Trump 'never again gets anywhere near the Oval Office.'\xa0 Award-winning opinion journalist HEATHER 'DIGBY' PARTON of Salon and Hullabaloo discusses the seeming meltdown and potential inflection point within the Republican Party, Cheney's underlying political strategy, and her likely replacement, the increasingly Trumpy Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), who is willing to lie about the results of the 2020 election. Fealty to falsehoods and a failed sociopathic former president now appears to be perhaps the only real 'value' remaining in the Republican Party. Also today:\xa0 Disturbing news on the ongoing ransomware attack against the D.C. Metro Police. The company that owns the Colonial Pipeline has begun to restart after a ransomware attack led to the shutdown of the massive fuel delivery system.