Of Treasures And Values

Obviously this was true, but I’m amused they thought it necessary to put out a press release... pic.twitter.com/i4wyiwMprv

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) January 9, 2021

CNN reports that Pence hasn’t ruled out the 25th Amendment, despite what was reported earlier. Could this conjecture (and false information about pardons for the insurrectionists) be part of the reason why?

If you supported or participated in efforts to challenge Biden’s clear electoral college victory either in the courts or in Congress (or both), I really don’t think you get to lecture those supporting Trump’s removal because you think that it would “divide the country.”

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) January 9, 2021

Exactly. https://t.co/JFgPS6UYt8

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) January 10, 2021

The insurrectionists were attempting to kill the first and second people in line to succeed the President and to prevent Congress from certifying the President’s electoral defeat.

Sorry Republicans, but we’re not “moving on” from this anytime soon. https://t.co/224j8fMuRN

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) January 10, 2021

Source close to the vice president tells me while the VP and his family were in a bunker in the Capitol, the President did not reach out to check on his safety or condemn those who said the VP should be executed.

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 10, 2021

In answer to my question, signs point to “yes.”

And really, the determination to defend the status quo ante is ridiculous:

Calling for the removal—through mechanisms written into the Constitution—of a President who enabled and incited an armed attempt to subvert the constitutional verification of his electoral defeat is “equally irresponsible” to the President’s enabling and incitement?

Yeah... no. https://t.co/EkUzkk5Ln2

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) January 10, 2021

The tectonic plates have shifted right under their feet, Lisbon has been destroyed again, and some insist nothing has changed and the only way forward is to stand absolutely still.  Maybe because to do otherwise would implicate their god.  I'm not saying Voltaire's response was the right one; but a lot of people are acting like it was.

Republicans saying “if you try to impose consequences for Republicans being violent they will get more violent” are really clarifying the party base’s values and character. https://t.co/hIpWJ5AhjZ

— MoreUnstableHat (@Popehat) January 10, 2021

“Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”