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Sen. Ben Sasse: ‘Adults Don’t Point a Loaded Gun at the Heart of Legitimate Self-Government’
National Review ^ | 01/01/2021 | JOHN MCCORMACK

Posted on 01/01/2021 8:06:25 PM PST by SeekAndFind

In a lengthy post on Facebook, Nebraska GOP senator Ben Sasse addresses the danger of Congress attempting to overturn the election on January 6:

The president and his allies are playing with fire. They have been asking – first the courts, then state legislatures, now the Congress – to overturn the results of a presidential election. They have unsuccessfully called on judges and are now calling on federal officeholders to invalidate millions and millions of votes. If you make big claims, you had better have the evidence. But the president doesn’t and neither do the institutional arsonist members of Congress who will object to the Electoral College vote.

Let’s be clear what is happening here: We have a bunch of ambitious politicians who think there’s a quick way to tap into the president’s populist base without doing any real, long-term damage. But they’re wrong – and this issue is bigger than anyone’s personal ambitions. Adults don’t point a loaded gun at the heart of legitimate self-government.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bensasse; crooked; election; illegitimate; not; overturning
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To: SeekAndFind

Di@khead. Stealing elections is what HAS pointed a gun at the constitutional republic, not the response to the theft.


41 posted on 01/01/2021 8:23:22 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. .... )
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To: SeekAndFind

Ignore the millions of fake ballots, Ben. No threat to self governance there. What a dummy.


42 posted on 01/01/2021 8:24:32 PM PST by ilgipper (The mob only destroys. Never creates. )
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To: GenXteacher

“Sasse needs to be honest and put a D next to his name.”

No, we need to be honest with ourselves and acknowledge that Sasse is a true Republican - he represents what the Republican party has become.

Do you seriously think the attempted theft of Donald Trump’s second term is being carried out only by Democrats? You think the Republican party is fighting for Trump? The Democrats could never have gotten this far without the full cooperation of the Republican establishment.

Yeah, I just can’t wait for the next GOP fundraising letter I get...


43 posted on 01/01/2021 8:24:44 PM PST by Junk Silver (Old FR maxim: "You can't steal a landslide." Joe Biden: "Hold my beer...")
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To: SeekAndFind; Impy; BillyBoy; NFHale; GOPsterinMA; LS; campaignPete R-CT; AuH2ORepublican; ...

This little $hit has to go.


44 posted on 01/01/2021 8:24:48 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (DEFEAT THE COUP D'ETAT BY THE STALINAZI DERP STATE !)
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To: chiller

No I’m sorry the vote by state delegations doesn’t take place unless they vote for president. We will never get to that step.

Both houses are needed to reject the electors and neither one will.

That’s just reality.

It wasn’t a fair election but unless something new comes out the certified results aren’t going to change.


45 posted on 01/01/2021 8:26:43 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Trump encouraging Thune be primaried. Sasser needs to have the same shortly.


46 posted on 01/01/2021 8:26:49 PM PST by bakkentom
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To: SeekAndFind

Go frauuud! Go Frauuud! Go frauuud1 Yeah!!


47 posted on 01/01/2021 8:27:17 PM PST by Eddie01
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To: Hambone 1934
"My name is Talking Tina and I don't like you, Ben Sasse!"


48 posted on 01/01/2021 8:27:48 PM PST by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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You can see it here, more and more are defending the Sasse’s, Cornyn’s, and Rubio’s.

Didn’t take long for some to buy the media crap and move on to RINO’s that undermined Trump.


49 posted on 01/01/2021 8:29:55 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (‘)
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To: SeekAndFind
No court has yet to hear and reject the abundant evidence of election fraud on the merits. All the decisions against Trump have been on formal legal grounds, with definitive US Supreme Court action now pending in several cases. And several legislatures, such as those of Georgia and Arizona, are well into investigations of massive vote fraud and seem poised to revoke their certifications of Biden as the winner of their state.

Congress will soon be called on to hear and investigate allegations of vote fraud. That is how the system is supposed to work. Calling this an attack on democracy is absurd and pernicious because it amounts to saying that election fraud must be accepted because to oppose it imperils democracy itself. This is akin to arguing in favor of fraud and coverup as essential to democracy -- a line of argument that discredits the American form of government as being built on lies and corruption of the ballot box.

50 posted on 01/01/2021 8:30:20 PM PST by Rockingham
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To: SeekAndFind

Idiots like Ben that have the country trillions in debt. Trump should take the military if necessary to remain President and remake the corrupt govt into something decent.


51 posted on 01/01/2021 8:30:56 PM PST by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%)
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To: devere

Yep. Like clockwork with these bastards no more Republican than Joe Biden


52 posted on 01/01/2021 8:30:57 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (#LeaveTheGOP. Pass it on )
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To: bakkentom

Trump encouraging Thune be primaried. Sasser needs to have the same shortly.


LOL. Sasse was just elected with 67% of the vote. You’re not going to primary him. He’s playing a cynical game here for his own benefit.


53 posted on 01/01/2021 8:31:16 PM PST by lodi90
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To: SeekAndFind

Bkm


54 posted on 01/01/2021 8:31:20 PM PST by JonPreston
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To: SeekAndFind

Maybe they can find a reason to lock Ben up. Like working to overthrow the US govt.


55 posted on 01/01/2021 8:32:40 PM PST by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%)
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To: lodi90

Which means he won’t be primaried for six more years, that is if he even decides to run again.


56 posted on 01/01/2021 8:33:17 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: AnthonySoprano

The resident never-Trumpers think it’s now safe to show their stripes.


57 posted on 01/01/2021 8:34:26 PM PST by In_Iowa_not_from
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To: Deo volente

Laf. Just watched that episode on the Twilight Zone marathon.


58 posted on 01/01/2021 8:35:12 PM PST by TianaHighrider (God bless President Trump. Prayers for PDJT and his loyal supporters.)
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To: Deo volente

Laf. Just watched that episode on the Twilight Zone marathon.


59 posted on 01/01/2021 8:35:16 PM PST by TianaHighrider (God bless President Trump. Prayers for PDJT and his loyal supporters.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Actually, only tens of thousands of ILLEGAL ILLEGITIMATE Votes swung the Election. Around 45,000 from what I understand.


60 posted on 01/01/2021 8:35:39 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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