President Donald Trump late Tuesday night denied reports that Vice President Mike Pence, who will oversee Congress’ official tallying of the Electoral College’s votes in a joint session on Wednesday, told him that he wouldn’t be able to prevent Congress from certifying the 2020 election results.
Et tu, Q-Tip?
Well, back to (temporary) reality from the happy dance in Georgia.
This too shall pass.
From the NYT piece on the subject:
Mr. Pence has spent hours with parliamentarians and lawyers in recent days.
But he got tired of them laughing at him.
What are the odds this (plus the beautiful Georgia one-two) is going to push Corporal Bone Spurs into full-on sedition at today’s D.C. gathering of the paunches?
Pence is a sad little man—should have recorded it like Raffensberger. Anyone who takes a call with Blotus should record and. Let him know it and end call if told to stop recording
It’s hard to imagine anything more exciting than spending hours with parliamentarians. Sounds like some sort of newfangled German torture protocol.
Maybe he’ll go full Stranger In A Strange Land and let his followers truly grok him.
Looks like Pence is about to get wraithed. How he has avoided it up till now is impressive.
Rock and a hard place buddy, but maintaining your faithfulness to your oath and the Constitution is the better choice by far. You will be remembered for eternity for what you do (or don’t do) today.
ETA: is today the day Trump finally wraithes himself and the entire Republican party?? Early indications are that R’s who actually care about governing are putting blame for GA loss squarely on him. Should make today’s EC protest interesting. Are these legislators still comfortable with their choice to pick his side, rather than the Constitution?
Hope the congressional janitor has an extra bag of kitty litter on hand.
A Heinlein Maneuver?
The GOP is a harsh mistress.
TANSTAAFL anymore, Donnie.
How would they even get the meeting started?
But but what about usurping the power away from the people?
A lengthy discussion on how to proceed, followed by various motions on the discussion, very testy arguments about how certain motions are out of order, leading to intense angry moments of whose Robert’s Rules of Order is the most updated…
I could see a good hour being chewed up just to determine how they say hello.
I suspect Mikey wishes he had had the foresight to record that conversation.
Toadglans denies a “report” calling it fake news, thus confirming its accuracy. It must be a day ending in “y”.
Would like to have been a fly on the veep for that conversation.