I wonder where Shelby’s testosterone was when he could have submitted a written objection to the certification of the Electoral College vote at the Joint Session of Congress held on January 6th and joined with any one other member of Congress to stop Vice President Cheney from officially certifying the vote without an investigation.
Talk now is cheap and a month late, Shelby.
US Code Title 3,15
Counting electoral votes in congress
§ 15. Congress shall be in session on the sixth day of January succeeding every meeting of the electors. The Senate and House of Representatives shall meet in the Hall of the House of Representatives at the hour of 1 oclock in the afternoon on that day, and the President of the Senate shall be their presiding officer. Two tellers shall be previously appointed on the part of the Senate and two on the part of the House of Representatives, to whom shall be handed, as they are opened by the President of the Senate, all the certificates and papers purporting to be certificates of the electoral votes, which certificates and papers shall be opened, presented, and acted upon in the alphabetical order of the States, beginning with the letter A; and said tellers, having then read the same in the presence and hearing of the two Houses, shall make a list of the votes as they shall appear from the said certificates; and the votes having been ascertained and counted according to the rules in this subchapter provided, the result of the same shall be delivered to the President of the Senate, who shall thereupon announce the state of the vote, which announcement shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of the persons, if any, elected President and Vice President of the United States, and, together with a list of the votes, be entered on the Journals of the two Houses. Upon such reading of any such certificate or paper, the President of the Senate shall call for objections, if any. Every objection shall be made in writing, and shall state clearly and concisely, and without argument, the ground thereof, and shall be signed by at least one Senator and one Member of the House of Representatives before the same shall be received. When all objections so made to any vote or paper from a State shall have been received and read, the Senate shall thereupon withdraw, and such objections shall be submitted to the Senate for its decision.
I watched the video of the counting carefully, there were no objections called for. If there had been any objections, I saw no opportunity given for any objector to do so...one lonely man somewhere in the background appeared to raise his hand, but he was ingored, then Pelosi began to cackle and cheer...
ding, ding, ding, ding!
Shelby is only saying this now because there is nothing he’s going to do about it. Someone up thread commented that he used to be a RAT. Yeah, he switched in ‘94 just after the election. He knew that if he wanted any authority he had better switch. It was convenient.
Shelby talks a good game but he really doesn’t do all that much.
He had a chance earlier on January 6 and kept his mouth shut. Talk is cheap.
Good point.
What should we conclude?
Either the senator has found some new information that is about to break {not likely}, or..this is some sort of boob bait for us Bubbas.