Posted on 12/15/2016 7:20:14 AM PST by Lazamataz
Well, it appears no Electors are defecting from the Republican side, so Monday should be uneventful.
However, I have learned not to underestimate the divorce-from-reality, the utter INSANITY of the Loony Left. Seeing how the liberals have thrown EVERYTHING against the wall this election:
I hereby formally predict the next one:
Is a quorum required? What happens if the Democrat HR members refuse to show up (flee to Canada)?
Didn’t Wisconsin Democrats pull this stunt (flee out of state)?
After that, they will do the old tie themselves together and lay down in the street to prevent him from driving to swear in location. The old “lay-in”. Of course, Trump would just helicopter over them. Turn it into a “cry-in”.
Weren’t they denying a quorum in WI? I think Trump needs a majority of those present to win. I could be wrong.
I’m expecting a remake of the Blazing Saddles scene where Cleavon Little holds himself at gunpoint.
Dems: You elect him and we’ll kill us!
Cong. P.R.: I think they mean it! Some are turning blue already!
Senator J. McC: Blue’s their political color dumbass. But we must save our Dem friends, who helped us foment war in Syria and arm ISIS. And if Trump tilts towards Russia, China might cut off the, uh, “support”, we rely on. Americans don’t want “jobs”; they want cheap automated Halloween decorations. Which brings us back to Hillary.
Cong. P.R. Hillary’s our man! Let’s push this burning EV hulk over the side and swear her in NOW!
We talk in’ electors or House members?
I’ve read suggestions on a certain DUmb site, that Obama will postpone the Electoral College or the inauguration, and stay in office until he can order a re-vote. And yes, they were serious in their delusions.
Catman67, I think you meant house of Representatives, right?
Interesting question.
How about, Obama refuses to leave saying he will be King.
a treacherous James Comey
internet fake news,
FOX News on every bar and pool hall television set
deplorable racist dunces in fly-over country
and now the Rooskies
The Washington Post and the New York Times, ad agencies for the Democrat Party, report that an anonymous intelligence officer... etc etc...
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Global Warming. Ask Al Gore.
Just about any public official can swear Trump in. Calvin Coolidge was sworn in by his father, a local notary public. So this gambit won’t work.
Actually, there is an interim step between the electors and the Senate where Obama can stop the processOffice of the Federal Register and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
The Office of the Federal Register and the National Archives process the voting records of the electors and send them to Congress. As part of the executive branch, they answer to Obama giving him the opportunity to do all manner of things from delaying to changing results. But changing results wouldn't work, you say, because the states would have a record of what they sent. Yes, but they would gin up the phony controversy anyway with the media leading the way to create even more unrest. It is what Obama does best, after all.
In any event, these are the relevant post-Electoral College vote steps prior to the Senate certifying the vote from https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/roles.html#congress
Receipt of Certificates of Vote
Certificates of Vote should begin arriving at NARA shortly after the State meetings of the electors held on December 19, 2016. Certificates of Vote are recorded on a log sheet when received at the Archivists office and at the OFR. Each Certificate is checked for facial legal sufficiency, and if there are any problems with a Certificate, an OFR attorney calls the contact person in that State and the Assistant Secretary of the Senate to inform them of the problems and offer advice as to a solution. After the Certificates of Vote have been determined to be facially sufficient, the OFR makes copies of them available for public inspection and secures the originals.
Certificates of Ascertainment Transmitted to Congress
The OFR prepares cover letters for the Archivists signature to accompany the Certificates of Ascertainment transmitted to Congress. The OFR hand delivers the Certificates and cover letters to the Vice Presidents Office in the Senate (the Vice President is the President of the Senate) and the Speakers Room on the House side of the Capitol and obtains a receipt. If all the Certificates of Ascertainment are received in a timely fashion, they are sent to Congress in one group. However, late arriving Certificates may also be hand delivered separately to Congress so that transmittal of the other Certificates is not delayed.
Good luck with that. First, it’s a Republican Congress. Second, many of these people (McConnell’s wife, Rodgers, the Immigration guy) are already slated for new gigs and they aren’t going to let those go; third, the states would absolutely revolt-—not because they love Trump but because this would destroy one of the few Constitutional powers they still enjoy.
You’re wrong on this ol bud.
Congress acknowledges the state elector slates, college votes in 4 days, Trump inaugurated on the 20th of Jan, reelected in 2020.
See, because I would be dead by the end of those three weeks. Wartime is wartime.
Luckily, it isn't going to happen. None of it.
I know bro. I'm being tongue-in-cheek.
OR AM I??????
After all, we never imagined they'd try any of the other stuff, right?
And them when everything fails and Trump is sworn in, the campaign to Impeach starts.
PICTURES.
Oh, wait, never mind.
At this point I don’t think there is anything the Rats can do to prevent President Trump from taking office. I think they’ re first going to focus on totally disrupting and destroying the inauguration ceremonies. Then they’ll start going crazy with fake daily scandals and fake allegations of corruption. They’re already winding up to destroy Trump’s cabinet nominees requiring Senate approval.
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