Thank you for the link, BZ.
Chairing the January 2009 Joint Session was not Dick Cheney’s first rodeo, of course, and I believe it was his intent to do everything he could for the nation prior to leaving office.
And, unlike most federal politicians, he is man enough to take any hit for his actions.
The trolls here on FR have been intellectually dishonest on this point since shortly after January 2009.
Any objection(s) to a certificate of electoral vote must be in a writing signed by a member of both chambers only to assure that when the Senate withdraws to consider the objection, the issue will be brought to the floor of each chamber and that both will separately consider precisely the same objection.
There is no requirement that an objection be submitted in advance of the session inasmuch as the basis for any objection might not be knowable prior to the session.
That’s the feeling I have about Dick Cheney too. He may be mistaken about some things like amnesty, but I believe he loves this country and would do anything he thought was necessary for her.
I don’t believe it was amnesia that kept him from asking the question. And more and more I don’t think it was contempt for the concerns of people like all of us here who support the rule of law. I think his not asking the question was the hook in Pelosi’s craw that will later come back to haunt her.
I also think she had to know that was the case, and that Cheney had something that kept her from being able to force him to ask the question. The fact that she did the standing ovation thing to cover for Cheney’s omission is bizarre. It’s sort of like having a big signing ceremony for a law and having a standing ovation to cover for the POTUS never actually signing the law. It ain’t over until the signature ink is on the page. Everybody in that room knew the page hadn’t been signed; the legal requirement hadn’t been met.
Yet Cheney refused to do what was required and Obama’s thugs refused to make him do it. It just seems like they all knew something more and that their actions were dictated by those unspoken variables.