Sunday, January 31, 2021

1/4/21 Congressional Coalitions Play Tug-o-War Over An Untried Election Strategy

On Wednesday, the day after Georgia's two senators are chosen, the Vice President is slated to count the votes of the electors in Congress. 

Thanks to Trump's bullying, scheming, cajoling, and threats over his fans' failure to reelect him, this year's count will be nothing like the usual quadrennial snoozefest. 


Many GOP lawmakers plan to object to the results because they don't like the outcome of the most thoroughly vetted vote in U.S. history. They're pandering to their voter base, a group that on the whole seems to have slept through high school civics.  


Josh Hawley (R-MO) is carrying the GOP flag in the House. There could be 100 or more members who will join him in objecting to the election results. Louis Gohmert (R-TX) is even saying that if Biden's win is upheld, the only response is violence. On the other hand, seven conservative House members say they won't challenge the results.


The loudest coalition is probably the twelve senators led by Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) -- loudest because, well, it's Ted Cruz.


 A bipartisan group of eleven Senators is urging the objectors to knock it off. "Further attempts to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the 2020 Presidential election are contrary to the expressed will of the American people ..." they said as a group. Other GOP Senators agree, but they're agreeing on their own. 


All Trump's and the GOP's tactics are bad sportsmanship, and more than one dance on the edge of -- well, treason. 


But Democrats are not even talking about bringing these wrongheaded folks to heel. Pro-Trump protests are still heated, and too many of those protestors have guns.  The last time lawmakers were charged with treason and expelled from Congress, those lawmakers were from the south, and they wanted to secede. 


We'd just as soon not have civil war, thank you very much. I'm not worried, though. I think that we're looking at paper tigers, not only in Washington DC, but spread across the country, unmasked, and spewing a democracy-threatening sickness into the air. 


Where will we be as a country a month -- or a year -- from now? What will the militias like the Proud Boys and the Michigan conspirators be doing? 


How long do you think the country should wait before prosecuting today's treasonous lawmakers? 


Does Joe Biden have the chops to bring the country back to some form of unity? 

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