Posted on 01/07/2021 12:41:06 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
JUST IN - Pelosi tried to call VP Mike Pence this morning to urge him to remove President Trump. She was kept on hold for 25 minutes before she was told Pence would not take her call (CNN).
You are ignoring that California for the first time legalized ballot harvesting in 2018. That caught the GOP flat footed and they lost a number of otherwise safe House seats. This cycle the GOP ballot harvested as well, hence all the screaming of foul by the Cali RATS. One reason we picked up seats is that we won many of those California seats back because the GOP followed the RATS example. Montana has always been bipolar like North Carolina. We elect all Statewide conservative GOP and put a RINO in the Senate and RAT in the Governors Mansion. Montana elected a Republican to the Governors Mansion.
You have to do a deeper dive on your numbers. Trumps coattails in 2020 were very long. We lost the Senate thanks mostly to the stupidity of Georgia RINOS.
The language of the amendment says if the vice president and either a majority of the executive Cabinet or a review body appointed by Congress declare in writing that the president is unfit for office, then the vice president immediately becomes the acting president.
But the law also gives the sitting president, Trump in this case, the chance to argue that he is fit for office.
In the case of competing arguments about the president’s ability to lead, “Congress shall decide the issue,” the amendment says. For the vice president to assume the power of the presidency, two-thirds of both the House of Representatives and Senate must vote in favor of that outcome.
If Congress does not have the sufficient majorities in both parties in favor of rescinding the president’s power, then he remains in power.
Your view isn't simplistic enough.
The VP presides over the joint session of Congress because the Constitution explicitly names the VP as the President of the Senate. As far as I know, it is the one and only case where the executive branch of the U.S. government can exert any authority over the legislative branch -- and even then the Constitution only gives the VP a Senate vote to break a tie.
[So, you’re a fan of traitorous wimps?
After all that’s transpired, you’re still willing to vote for a traitorous Repuke? The Repugnican party is dead and good riddance.]
With one exception, every GOP Senate candidate running in a state Trump lost also lost. These included every closely contested state, too. The lone exception was Susan Collins in Maine, whose defining characteristic was her OPPOSITION to President Trump on many issues.
It will likely be impossible to verify this because exit polls are just as useless as pre-election polls these days, but I suspect Trump's influence over many down-ballot races was minimal at best. This wasn't a fault of his, but was simply a function of his appeal to many independents and old-school Democrats. A lot of these voters supported Trump but had no interest in the GOP in House and Senate races.
Look at West Virginia, for heaven's sake. Trump won there by his most lopsided margin in 2016 (and maybe 2020 as well), and yet there are more registered Democrats than Republicans there.
I thought that 7 states sent certificates for competing slates to the Capitol.
Pence is the new McCain.
they are afraid of him.. the rats are going batshit crazy
Thanks.
I do not disagree with your assessment up to a point. Ballot fraud and Ballot Harvesting is most effective when used to elect a Senator or President, possibly a Governor. It is less effective in smaller district races. It was effective in Cali House races in 2018 because the GOP was caught off guard. It was effective in Georgia and in PA.
Our RINO Senator is very unpopular in our state yet he just squeaked by as did Trump. But the mail in ballots here were out of control and had universities been actually in session they both would have lost to fraud and ballot harvesting.
You have to factor in a lot of things but do a comparison between Trump and Obama’s coattails. Rush was pointing out the attacks on Trump right now, even though he is leaving office, is the outright fear of his influence over conservative voters.
But he didn’t lie. Pence should have said he misspoke. But he didn’t.
I guess Pence’s faith was not enough to buck him up to tell the truth.
yeah... so we supposed to be impressed with that Mike?
screw you.
Flynn later entered a guilty plea to a charge of lying to the FBI. It turns out he never did such a thing, and he spent three freaking years trying to undo that.
Put yourself in Pence's shoes. How the hell do you deal with someone like that? Flynn was erratic at best, and a moron at worst. I'll take "Moron" for $600, Alex.
Why/How was this juicy detail made public?
That I believe was a lie
They never did
NAME YOUR BET
It was one of her staff that was on hold for 25 minutes.
If she didn’t hand it off herself, one of her staff would have relieved her of the burden so she could return her main task of subverting the United States.
Flynn fell on his sword to save pence. Pence did not have the guts to do that.
Who was more Christ like in this case?
One thing I cannot stand is a hypocrite. Mike is a sudducee
Pencedict Arnold
Do not try to mix TOTALLY DIFFERENT functions assigned to the Vice President (VP) by the US Constitution. (USC).
One role as president of only the Senate has nothing crossing over to the much more important role of approving and tabulating electoral votes to select next president.
As I postulated before, there is a reason why the USC specifically assigns the role of tabulating electoral votes to the VP. If it was merely a role to the arithmetic to add votes, that could have been done by any of the Senate or House clerks.
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