I’m old enough to remember the “Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity,” which Trump created in 2017, and which disbanded after finding ... nothing. https://t.co/pxWF7nk8Fg
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) January 2, 2021
True, though I’m not sure Blackburn and Tuberville know what day of the week it is without a calendar and an aide to point it out to them.They know Biden won.
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) January 2, 2021
They know there was no widespread fraud.
They know that there’s no chance any of these objections are sustained by either chamber—let alone both.
And they’re doing this *anyway.*
If the Republican Party had any principles left, it would expel all of them. https://t.co/sCw8rnjc30
Cruz knows this. He knows he’s trying to sound clever for the rubes. He imagines, like Hawley and the others, that he can position himself to replace Trump. Which is worse? That he tries? Or that he’s sure to fail?The Electoral Count Act of 1887, which is what governs how things are going to go on January 6, was enacted in direct response to the epic disaster that was the Election of 1876 (including the 1877 Electoral Commission). Much of its point was to *repudiate* that “precedent.” https://t.co/kbtdewKuOL
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) January 2, 2021
Navarro is wrong on both counts. But he’s playing to an audience of one.Peter Navarro says Pence has the authority to give them a ten day window and also says the inauguration date can be rescheduled pic.twitter.com/ZU22bp622d
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) January 3, 2021
It is not a coincidence that one of Trump’s favorite advisers is on TV saying Pence can do something that he actually can’t do, but which some Rs have convinced POTUS is in the realm of the possible (it isn’t) https://t.co/AilUWtAoeO
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 3, 2021
Pence is just trying to get Trump to stop calling him. Of course, the quality of the objections don’t matter; it’s all about the vote count. And neither house has majorities that want to face the unprecedented chaos of rejecting the vote of the people. Pay attention: neither Cruz nor Hawley is going that far.Pence is getting a lot of heat for this statement, but basically it seems to be yet another version of what folks around Trump said to Sidney Powell: if you have evidence, show it. If you don’t, there’s a reason why. https://t.co/y13aes6Xq0
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 3, 2021
The let's-blow-the-system-up-to-keep-Trump-in-power crowd has piled up an astonishing collection of losses.
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) January 3, 2021
And they're shattering speed records for losing cases. Losing like this normally takes weeks, maybe months. They pulled it off it in a day. https://t.co/ksIvXUsS7N
I really wanna hear somebody making that argument on the floor of the Senate.It feels like this calls for a legislative version of laches. If you felt a 10-day “emergency audit” was necessary, why didn’t you ask for it in November? https://t.co/589STunxdC
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) January 2, 2021
Oh, I'd like a real commission with subpoena powers if they looked into the activities of Rudy, Sidney, Ellis, etc. the role of fascist media, the disastrous consequences of retaining the Electoral College. But it would have to take a year and have the full cooperation of all of the above compelled. Other than that, yeah, this is just Cruz trying to outdo that callow idiot from MO.
ReplyDeleteAnd you can add the full disclosure of the House and Senate members who tried to overturn a legitimate election in various states, especially those who won election to the Congress in the same elections they're claiming were rigged. None of them should be seated, certainly not without full disclosure of their calls to overturn their own elections.
DeleteThe proof that this is all about politics is Cruz trumping Hawley with 11 Senators to Hawley’s pitiful one. Hawley has a lot to learn about how to play this game.
ReplyDeleteThat said, step away from the internet hothouse and the portion of America paying attention to this (the political press) is less than impressed. I dare say more people are concerned with Covid and the vaccine than with what Cruz is up to. Not to say they shouldn’t be punished for this bullshit, but this matters more to political Twitter than the rest of the world. And that puts Trump in his place, too.