“What’s The Downside?”

“What’s the downside for humoring him,” senior Republicans quipped last month.

This. This is the downside. And plenty of people saw it coming.https://t.co/dIYcfGXheD

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) January 6, 2021

Republicans who persist in objecting to slates of Biden electors at this point are only rewarding the insurrectionists for their seditious behavior — and the President for inciting it.

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) January 6, 2021

This suggests that there will be no further objections to Biden electors — a good first step (with a number of bigger steps to go). https://t.co/RFDjNrxYsc

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) January 7, 2021

Really the bare minimum.

Based on images on TV, the 6 p.m. curfew in DC for the rioters at the Capitol doesn't seem to be being enforced with the same vigor that curfews were enforced against people who rioted in DC last year.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 7, 2021

Again, reflecting who is doing the enforcing.

.@Liz_Cheney: “there’s no question the president formed the mob. The president incited the mob. The president address the mob. He lit the flame.”

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— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) January 7, 2021

Wow. Republican Sen. Richard Burr: "The President bears responsibility for today’s events by promoting the unfounded conspiracy theories that have led to this point." pic.twitter.com/swKOYFd9CI

— Dustin Volz (@dnvolz) January 6, 2021

Twitter has locked Donald Trump's account https://t.co/CjAEyqCbEt

— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) January 7, 2021

Trump appears to have deleted at least two of the tweets that Twitter locked his account over.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 7, 2021

Like I said, when it finally affects you:

Just asked @RoyBlunt what he wants to hear from Trump tonight.

“I don’t want to hear anything,” he said.

Blunt called this the saddest day he’s been in Congress.

— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) January 6, 2021

Contrary to what @RandPaul said on Fox (and is being widely reported), word in the Senate is that, notwithstanding everything that happened today, @HawleyMO is *still* planning to join an objection to Biden’s Pennsylvania electors — giving yet more fodder to the insurrectionists.

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) January 7, 2021

Seditious snake, indeed.

What in the hot holy hell? https://t.co/E71247rhKy

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) January 7, 2021

Scores of protesters in my years of covering the Capitol have been arrested for far, far less. Lawmakers have been arrested for protesting in favor of immigration reform. https://t.co/xtLrtYc0ns

— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) January 7, 2021