Posted on 09/20/2021 6:57:25 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
While Mike Pence was lauded by Democrats — and widely criticized by the president and the Republican base — for his refusal to overturn the results of the election won by Joe Biden in 2020, it turns out that a different vice president may have been responsible for the decision.
In the upcoming book Peril, Robert Costa and Bob Woodward write that then-Vice President Pence reached out to 74-year-old Dan Quayle — who served as vice president from 1989 to 1993 under President George H. W. Bush — in the waning days of the Trump presidency.
"Over and over, Pence asked if there was anything he could do," Costa and Woodward write, suggesting that Pence was looking for a way to acquiesce to Donald Trump's demands that he reject the electoral votes legally-cast in Biden's favor.
According to the book, Quayle quickly put the kibosh on any effort to overturn the election, telling Pence: "Mike, you have no flexibility on this. None. Zero. Forget it. Put it away."
When Pence "pressed again," the authors write, he did so by explaining that he was under pressure from Trump. (A spokesman for Pence did not respond to a request for comment on Peril.)
"You don't know the position I'm in," he told Quayle, according to the authors, to which Quayle responded: "I do know the position you're in. I also know what the law is. You listen to the parliamentarian [who issues rulings about congressional authority]. That's all you do. You have no power.'"
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Did they converse in Latin?
LOL! It figures.
Did know he was still alive.
It looks like EVERYONE is cashing-in on the Biden ‘I Won’ sham.
They’re crawling out of the woodwork for a paycheck!!
Is the parliamentarian role constitutionally mandated?
He was never the sharpest knife in the drawer.
I feel for him, I really do. Poor guy, having to lie like this.
The Senate parliamentarian just prevented amnesty being rolled into the spending bill, so there is that...
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Anyone who believes Mike Pence had such power does not understand the role of President of the Senate.
Even if Pence had refused to recognize the disputed states and was able to send it back to the states for recertification, it’s clear the states would have recertified.
It’s also clear that all audits would have been hard fought.
Where Pence blew it an opportunity, was when he chaired the voter fraud commission for 2 years. And they focused on illegal votings and were stymied by the states over privacy concerns.
Pence should have had all aspects of elections professionally audited then. The audit should have including the voting machines and chain of custody procedures and laws and penalties.
Blah, blah, blah. Smoke to try to clear Pence of traitoring us.
Moving on to the blame others phase.
I also know what the law is. You listen to the parliamentarian [who issues rulings about congressional authority]. That’s all you do. You have no power.’”
Well this is a load of BS isn’t it? The parliamentarian has no authority at all and acts in an advisory capacity only. Otoh the VP can for cause refuse to certify the EC votes.
Can anybody point to anything in the Constitution or law that gives the VP/Senate Pres. power to overturn a Presidential Election? Anything? Please quote directly from the Constitution the section that would allow Pence to overturn the election.
Well we will never know now will we? It was much easier to just throw in the towel and give the country to commie democrats. Surrender was so much easier. I’m sure the communists will be very fair to everyone.
Doubt it. The senate version has only been around since 1935; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentarian_of_the_United_States_Senate
Created by the confusion of the new deal era; https://www.senate.gov/about/officers-staff/secretary-of-the-senate/first-official-parliamentarian.htm
Must be my computer. I keep seeing an error in this phrase. It's not just the spurious hyphen between "legally" and "cast"--which shouldn't be there because there's no noun following the verb "cast."
(I mean, it's not news that Yahoo News editors are illiterate.)
Maybe it's that "legally" doesn't belong in there, either.
I don’t ask for advice often
but when I do
I ask the dumbest man in politics
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