Posted on 01/04/2021 8:57:16 AM PST by John Semmens
Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) called the vote on January sixth to accept the Electoral College's votes for Joe Biden to be the nation's next president "the most consequential vote I have ever cast in my career in the Senate."
McConnell asserted that "the issue of whether the election was fair or stolen is, in my mind, secondary to the preservation of the bipartisan comity that is essential to the peaceful transfer of power. Other presidential elections have been stolen—most notably the one held in 1960. In contrast to President Trump's post-election behavior, Republican Vice-President Richard Nixon put the good of the country ahead of an insistence on a fair election and allowed Democrat Sen. John Kennedy to be inaugurated as scheduled on January 20th."
The Majority Leader vowed "to use my position to discourage any of my fellow Republicans from objecting to any of the electoral votes in our January 6th joint session. I know it will be hard for some of them to ignore what they consider credible evidence of substantial fraud in the vote counting process in several states. But those tempted to raise election integrity above harmony between us and our Democrat colleagues are advised to consider the impact on their own careers. I control assignments and can relegate disagreeable Republicans to sit on inconsequential committees or on no committees at all as I see fit."
Nebraska Republican Sen. Ben Sasse sided with McConnell, saying that "attempting to raise the issue of election integrity at this late date is a dangerous ploy. The courts don't want to take up this issue. The media will pillory Republicans who challenge Biden's ascent to the office of president. This will quash any chance for me or others like me to run for president in the 2024 election. We should not be forced to put our careers on the line by having to vote for or against competing slates of electors. In my view it's unfair and just not worth it."
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GA Runoff election was compromised when Jovan Pulitzer had his team connect to an active polling machine used in the GA Senate Runoff elections. That voids the Fed Certification of the machines. It affects Pelosi, McConnell, and Kemp along with the other Governors, Senators, and Representatives elected by the 6 battleground and 31 other states that use the Dominion malware.
So he is saying it’s ok if it’s stolen. Now it’s about leaving alone and transfer of power. Let’s see if the people let this slide. Freaking politicians expect people to just let one get stolen every other year. Maybe sometimes your vote counts.
Sadly this probably is Beijing Mitch’s mindset these days.
He and other “professional lifetime” politicians despise Trump. Trump doesn’t speak their politispeak language and doesn’t want to. PC speak is basically lying with sugar on top.
I’m with Trump and others like him who mean what they say and say what they mean.
You’re being put out of business John! With the way things are going (eg Amen now having a female counterpart ...), reality has become so bizarre that honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if I heard lizard men being debated in Congress! At this rate your future threads will be on ‘non-satire’ since the weird and bizarre will be too common.
I consider this the most consequential vote I have ever cast in my career in the Senate.
Because President Xi has assured Elaine and me that there will be a statue of us erected in Tiananmen Square if I am able to get the true Manchurian Candidate across the line.
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