December 20, 2020 the states Electoral vote was certified by all 50 states and reported to Congress….
Next week, January 6, 2021 the vote will be ‘presented’ to Congress….
The Vice President will preside over the act….
Some crazy assed Republicans want to follow Donald Trump’s advice and seek to have Mike Pence NOT accept the results and substitute Trump as the winner of last months election….
THAT is NOT gonna happen….
We ALL know the results from the tens of million’s of votes…..
Pence cannot change them….
And he has not moved to join any effort to do so….
Nate Silver
@NateSilver538
Hawley seems like the sort of politician who will be heralded by pundits as the new GOP frontrunner in some future election year and then will finish in 5th place in Iowa.
It’s a disgrace that boot licking twerp Hawley holds the same seat that Harry Truman did.
Pelosi will seat the Republican in Iowa who won her House seat by 6 votes.
Pelosi Will Seat Iowa Republican
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said she will seat Rep.-elect Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA) this weekend as Rita Hart (D) contests the results of their race, The Hill reports.
Results show Hart having been defeated by Miller-Meeks by six votes after a recount.
Hawley has NO support from Pence….
Pence Seeks Dismissal of Case to Expand His Power
“Vice President Pence late Thursday asked for a lawsuit that aimed to expand his power to use a congressional ceremony to overturn the presidential election be rejected, arguing that he was not the right person to sue over the issue,” the Washington Post reports.
“The filing will come as a disappointment to supporters of President Trump, who hoped that Pence would choose to set aside some of President-elect Joe Biden’s electoral college votes when Congress meets next week to certify the November election.”
I wonder if Mike peed his pants on this one, he better be careful, Donnie came back into town early.
This attempt next Wednesday is unprecedented in its scope and the ridiculousness of the accusations the Republicans are making. But Hawley will force all these Republican boot lickers to go public if they want to abandon their Great White Hope.
So, we shall see what happens and how many Republicans can find their balls and follow democratic norms and, for one day at least, support our new President. Before, of course, they find the deficit again and try to shut him down.
Never before has a sitting President done what Trump has done to subvert the will of the people, and never before has a major party given so much cover to an insane narcissist in his quest to stay in office. I will make this prediction, he isn’t finished yet.
But, hey, don’t forget about Barbara Boxer everyone!
I need to go, so, first, Happy New Year everyone.
I am off to deliver so last minute food band deliveries down valley (one of the drivers started celebrating early) to shut-ins who need to eat tomorrow.
It’s been a tough year for everyone, but we have been lucky so we take every chance to give back.
Others haven’t been so lucky. Besides illness and death, lots of people have lost their jobs. The economic impact (over and above the stock market) is just beginning to be realized. So many people have been evicted or had to sell their homes and move home with mom and dad. My heart goes out to all of them.
See you in 2021.
I’m a socialist, but one really has to feel for all those regular working folks who skimped, saved, sacrificed and toiled to set up a café, a corner store, a barbershop, a hardware store, a pub, a toyshop or a boutique and then lost everything to a pandemic they couldn’t foresee, let alone provide against.
As for the anticipated antics next Wednesday, the evening news reported that around 140 House Republicans (after swearing, like many of us, to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies) will vote to question perfectly legitimate, constitutional, democratic votes in red-to-blue states. That’s nearly a third of the 435 voting members of the U.S. House of Representatives.
That’s frankly quite utterly appalling: while Trump called the free open press of this country the “enemy of the people”, what this demonstrates quite starkly is the Grand Old Party of Lincoln and Frederick Douglass is now The Enemy of Democracy, and thus of the Republic. What’s perhaps equally alarming is how many tens of millions of American citizens agree that their own preferred candidate can never be allowed to lose an election.
For those with some fuzzy memories of Central European politics 80-100 years ago, this has ominous echoes (even though I’m gratified to see that American democracy is more robust than I thought it might be). Neither Hitler nor Mussolini ever won a majority of a free contested election, but they came to power through a combination of their own large base of anxious, displaced voters with the flabbiness, appeasement and connivance of right-wing, centre-right and centre parties who folded before fascism out of a fear of Leninism.
There are still plenty of unfilled places available in the Hall of Shame.
Yes indeed DSD….
Suckers are born even day….
I didn’t interpret that he was talking about “suckers.”
A sucker is someone who through ignorance or vanity is taken in by a con.
These Republicans aren’t “suckers.”They know it’s a con.They don’t give a damn .Quit making excuses for them !
They know Exactly what they’re doing!Its crummy stuff and they should be denounced for it.
Rough Year DSD….
Things ain’t fair…..
Happy New Year Keith!
Best to Ya!….
Good comments Keith and spot on!
This dumb idea being pushed here that these Republicans are just boy and girls having a little fun is disgusting.
Update* to this post….
Judge rules against messing with Pence by Gohmert….