Snap Shots of YOUR Republican Party, 21st Century Style

[RickeyM]

From the article:

This is sedition, plain and simple. No amount of playacting and rationalizing can change the fact that the majority of the Republican Party and its apologists are advocating for the overthrow of an American election and the continued rule of a sociopathic autocrat.

That's the thing. These seditionists know what they're doing. They know and they're doing it anyway. A greater threat to our republic at the moment than any foreign adversary. Seditionists and traitors to their oath and they should be handled as such.

[Chicks]

Joint Statement Concerning January 6 Attempt to Overturn the Results of the Election

https://massie.house.gov/news/email/...ZQ3KBYQIDSAWB4

Washington, DC- Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), Kelly Armstrong (R-N.D.), Ken Buck (R-Colo.), Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), Tom McClintock (R-Cal.), Chip Roy (R-Texas) released the following statement concerning the January 6 attempt to overturn the results of the election.

[...lies...]

[...more lies...]

[...then some truth...]

But only the states have authority to appoint electors, in accordance with state law. Congress has only a narrow role in the presidential election process. Its job is to count the electors submitted by the states, not to determine which electors the states should have sent.

The text of the United States Constitution, and the Twelfth Amendment in particular, is clear. With respect to presidential elections, there is no authority for Congress to make value judgments in the abstract regarding any state’s election laws or the manner in which they have been implemented. Nor does Congress have discretion to disqualify electors based on its own finding that fraud occurred in that state’s election. Congress has one job here: to count electoral votes that have in fact been cast by any state, as designated by those authorized to do so under state law.

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To take action otherwise – that is, to unconstitutionally insert Congress into the center of the presidential election process – would amount to stealing power from the people and the states. It would, in effect, replace the electoral college with Congress, and in so doing strengthen the efforts of those on the left who are determined to eliminate it or render it irrelevant.

[...then this stunning admission...]

From a purely partisan perspective, Republican presidential candidates have won the national popular vote only once in the last 32 years. They have therefore depended on the electoral college for nearly all presidential victories in the last generation. If we perpetuate the notion that Congress may disregard certified electoral votes—based solely on its own assessment that one or more states mishandled the presidential election—we will be delegitimizing the very system that led Donald Trump to victory in 2016, and that could provide the only path to victory in 2024.

Admitting, out loud, that they can't win the WH without the EC. The very best case for eliminating the EC - to get rid of these disgusting, lying, good for nothing clowns, like DiaperDon, for good.

[Chicks]

Senate GOP opposition grows to Electoral College challenge
The effort to overturn DiaperDon's loss may be defeated overwhelmingly while fracturing his party.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/0...allenge-455104

The Senate Republicans opposed to certifying President-elect Joe Biden’s win are heading toward a hefty defeat on Wednesday. The only remaining question is this: how badly do they lose?

Just 11 GOP senators have signaled support for separate efforts led by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.). That makes 13 supporters — and many more have come out swinging against it.

Oops.

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by Chicks

Senate GOP opposition grows to Electoral College challenge
The effort to overturn DiaperDon's loss may be defeated overwhelmingly while fracturing his party.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/0...allenge-455104



Oops.

Those Repubs that have come out swinging against it are far from being faithful, honest representatives of the people. They're merely getting rid of some necrotic tissue. At this point#DiaperDon is doing the party more harm than good. Time to lay low, regroup and attack our democracy another day.

[Chicks]

Police say protest outside Hawley home not 'that big of a deal'

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/...ceful-politics

Awwww. Poor little whiney-ass snowflake.

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by Chicks

Police say protest outside Hawley home not 'that big of a deal'

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/...ceful-politics

Awwww. Poor little whiney-ass snowflake.

To watch the coverage on Faux News* you'd have though ANTIFA was banging on the door with pitch forks and torches. No mention at all about the response of the local constabulary or the protesters peacefully leaving without issue.

* once a month I do watch it for about as much as I can take. Usually that's about a minute or less.

[Chicks]

Trump, Hawley and Cruz will each wear the scarlet ‘S’ of a seditionist
by George F. Will

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...555_story.html

The three repulsive architects of Wednesday’s heartbreaking spectacle — mobs desecrating the Republic’s noblest building and preventing the completion of a constitutional process — must be named, and forevermore shunned. They are Donald Trump, and senators Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz.

Trump lit the fuse for the riot in the weeks before the election, with his successful effort to delegitimize the election in the eyes of his supporters. But Wednesday’s explosion required the help of Hawley (R-Mo.) and Cruz (R-Tex.).

[Chicks]

Repube lawmakers really, really hate hearing the truth.

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/poli...-lamb/2410144/

[Chicks]

Angry Republican leaders float removing Trump from office

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/06/polit...ent/index.html

...mostly off the record... F'ing cowards won't do a damn thing.

[Human]

I'd be happy if just the threat of the 25th keeps Trump quiet for the next 13 days. Is suspect that some very frank conversations with him have made it clear that he do so.