Commentary
TWELVE SENATORS and nearly 150 members of the House have shown courage in the effort to challenge the Electoral College count set for January 6, 2021, as of this writing.
Although then Democrat Sen. Barbara Boxer and Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones challenged the win of George W. Bush on January 5, 2005, the leftist media are falsely claiming the current Republican challenge is “unprecedented.”
“They were praised by Democrat leadership and the media when they did,” said Missouri’s Republican Sen. Josh Hawley. “Now those of us concerned about the integrity of this election are entitled to do the same.”
Kramerontheright doubts there’s a path of victory for President Trump under the language of the Twelfth Amendment. That’s a long shot. However, the legitimate purpose for the challenge is to draw national attention to a flawed election process in a number of states, requiring a fix before the 2022 midterm election.
Hawley set off a firestorm within his own party when he announced that he would join House Republicans. Senators Cruz, Johnson, Lankford, Daines, Kennedy, Blackburn and Braun, were joined by Senators-elect Lummis, Marshall, Hagerty and Tuberville after being sworn-in.
In a joint statement, the group said, “America is a Republic whose leaders are chosen in democratic elections. Those elections, in turn, must comply with the Constitution and with federal and state law.
“The 2020 election, like the election of 2016, was hard fought and, in many swing states, narrowly decided. The 2020 election, however, featured unprecedented allegations of voter fraud, violations, and lax enforcement of election law, and other voting irregularities.
“Accordingly, we intend to vote on January 6, to reject the electors from disputed states as no ‘regularly given’ and ‘lawfully certified,’ unless and until that emergency 10-day audit is completed.”
RINO Mitt Romney, naturally, led the establishment opposition, saying “Spreading this kind of rumor about our election system not working is dangerous for democracy here and abroad,” further claiming that Majority Leader Mitch McConnell also believed the move to be a “referendum on our democracy.”
Have they forgotten that the 1887 Electoral Count Act, which the Democrats used in 2000, 2004 and 2016, provides for this contingency as a means to protect our democracy?
“Are reluctant Senators simply abject cowards, trying to protect their committee assignments,” asks Roger Simon in his piece, “McConnell and GOP Senators Must Stop Deserting Their Constituents,” in The Epoch Times, “or are they more aligned with the Deep State than they would like us to know or even wish to acknowledge to themselves?”
WILL THEY IGNORE the latest vote movement from Trump to Biden in Pennsylvania, discovered in an analysis by the Data Integrity Group, showing 432,116 votes removed from the Trump total in at least 15 counties – 213,707 election day votes and 218,409 absentee votes?
TRAGICALLY, there are Senate Republicans who are willing to ignore the voting irregularities as “normal.” They would be those who have never fully supported President Trump, referencing their tired reasoning of his character, considered to be unpresidential. The party and country be damned. So much for this “greatest deliberative party” recognition.
While our “America first” president, who fought off four years of attempts to remove him from office, is being criticized for his stand on the election irregularities, fighting for our democracy, the editorial brain trust at the Wall Street Journal referred to the move to reject the count as “a GOP stunt … that will hurt the country and the party.”
Not all of the media were boo-birds. “Objecting to electoral results in the joint House/Senate session, which is just a formality, can play a useful part in advancing the cause of election integrity,” commented John Hinderaker of Power Line blog.
Undeterred, President Trump, refuses to be viewed as a lame duck. He returned to Georgia Monday night to vigorously campaign for Senators Loeffler and Perdue, because their election weighs heavily on a Republican majority in the Senate, and more importantly, the future of our country. With feckless characters like Mitt Romney and Lisa Murkowski in the Senate, who are willing to be vote spoilers, we need Loeffler and Perdue back in the Senate.
“THE ELECTION IN GEORGIA will be the most important in history,” noted the insightful Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy. “You have nothing to worry about unless you are a taxpayer, parent, gun owner, cop, person of faith, or an unborn baby.”
MEANWHILE … A GOOD QUESTION – Thomas John @Thomas_John93 tweeted, “Are there any other countries that tax their citizens and then send it to Americans? Just curious.”
May God continue to bless the United States of America.
