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Below are the highlights to this column by Jennifer Rubin on the "Sedition Caucus." Go to the link and read it all. It's delicious!
A really bad day for the ‘Sedition Caucus
"...[A] number of Republicans have joined Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Mitt Romney (R-Utah) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) in denouncing the attempted coup. Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), in a written statement, declared that “after two months of recounts and legal challenges, not a single state recount changed a result and, of the dozens of lawsuits filed, not one found evidence of fraud or irregularities widespread enough to change the result of the election.”
Portman, therefore, concluded: “Over the course of my public service career, I have taken the same oath on numerous occasions, swearing to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. I plan on honoring that oath by supporting the state certifications and the will of the people. I will vote to certify in accordance with my duty under the Constitution.” Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), one of the Senate’s most conservative members, will also decline to join the mob.
Meanwhile, in Georgia, we got an earful from Republican officials outraged by President Trump’s attempt to strong-arm Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state, into changing vote totals there. Gabriel Sterling, a Republican election official who previously denounced attempts to change the state’s results and threats made against public officials, spoke on behalf of sane Americans. “I wanted to scream,” he said of Trump’s call with Raffensperger, during a news conference on Monday.
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" Sterling provided a thorough debunking of the conspiracy theories Trump and his lackeys are pushing. The bottom line, he reiterated: “This is all easily, provably false. And yet the president persists.” As do his Dirty Dozen co-conspirators.
Raffensperger also denounced the attempt to force him to fabricate the results. He told CBS News: “We get complaints all the time. We investigate those. But we looked at their data. Their data is not correct. And we can go down that line point by point and show what our data shows.”Raffensperger also revealed that he was not planning to release the tape of the call with Trump, but then Trump lied about it on Twitter.
Once again, Trump is his own worst enemy. In any event, Raffensperger said, “I know what we’re going to do. We’re going to follow the law. We’re going to follow the process.”
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I just read this on Jim Wright's blog, Stonekettle:
"Republican majority of the Pennsylvania state senate just had Pennsylvania Lt Governor removed from the chamber for refusing to recognize a motion that would deny a duly elected Democratic senator from being sworn in (note that LtGov John Fetterman didn't actually leave the chamber and he's about twice the size of anybody else in the room and Republicans aren't sure what to do, so right now they're mostly just pretending he isn't there).
President of the State Senate Pro Tempore Jake Corman is now presiding and the Republican majority has now refused to recognize the election of Democratic senator Jim Brewster -- because Brewster's Republican opponent, Nicole Ziccarelli, refuses to concede and is challenging Brewster's win in Federal court. (Note that Ziccarelli has already lost this case in state court and that it's very likely the Federal court lacks any jurisdiction over the issue).
Also, please note Brewster was certified the winner of his district by REPUBLICAN STATE OFFICIALS.
This refusal by Pennsylvania Senate Republicans is in violation of the state's constitution, which gives them the power to object to the swearing in of a senator ONLY if that person does not meet the requirements of office (i.e. age, residency, etc). The state Constitution does NOT give the senate the power to overthrow an election.
This is a very, very dangerous precedent."
The GOP has devolved into an anti-democratic seditious proto-fascist party.
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