Bitter GOP split upends the pomp as a new Congress takes over https://t.co/vfptmw7WmJ
— DonnaCassata (@DonnaCassata) January 4, 2021
His members keep this clownshow up, Very Serious People are gonna start questioning #MoscowMitch’s political talents…
After four years of enabling and appeasing Trump, Republicans find themselves in exactly the place they so desperately tried to avoid, notes ?@hillhulse?: "a toxic internecine brawl over his conduct and character that could badly damage their party." https://t.co/p8RrbzcLEv
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) January 4, 2021
McCarthy’s not as big a moron as, for instance, Louie Gohmert… but he’s consistently an idiot, playing way out of his depth:
.?@mkraju? : McCarthy gives green light to conservatives' push to overturn Biden's win, as senior Republicans raise alarms https://t.co/EF3ayyqN9R
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 3, 2021
… “Kevin McCarthy’s part of the team,” said Rep. Mo Brooks, Republican from Alabama who is leading the charge, adding that the California Republican has “told that to the President of the United States” as well as Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan.
Asked if McCarthy had discouraged the effort at all, Jordan told CNN on Sunday: “Kevin’s been great. Kevin’s been fine. Kevin’s been great on this whole process.” …
“If you want to unite this nation, you start with having integrity in your election,” McCarthy said. “There are questions out there. … What’s wrong with bringing the information back so people have all the information to make those decisions?”…
While the effort is certain to fail, it’s bound to put Republicans in a difficult spot. If one senator joins with a House member to object to a state’s electoral count, each chamber must debate the merits of the objection for up to two hours before casting a vote on whether to affirm the objection. The objections are certain to fail in both chambers, even though they could win the backing of a majority of House Republicans…
Not an expert on ‘conservative’ media, but this seems about right:
Cotton: National Review
Hawley: The Federalist
Cruz: Breitbart
Romney: The Bulwark
Toomey: The Dispatch
Sasse: Washington Examiner
Johnson: Gateway Pundit
Gohmert: 8kun— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) January 4, 2021
Which of these mathematical facts is true?
A.) 81,283,485 > 74,223,744
B.) 306 > 232
C.) 51.4% > 46.9%
D.) All of the aboveThe correct answer is D. The facts will be upheld on January 6 and we will have a new POTUS on January 20 at 12 noon.
— Senator Jack Reed (@SenJackReed) January 3, 2021
dmsilev
To say that Trump went off the rails at his rally tonight isn’t quite right, since that assumes he was at some point on those rails. 15.5 days and counting.
lgerard
LOL at this
I don’t doubt for a second that Raffensperger had told the interns “Hey if anyone calls pretending to be president trump, just laugh at them, then hang up.”
dmsilev
@lgerard: To be fair, the prank potential in calling up random people and pretending to be Trump is pretty high. And normally, calls from a President are pre-arranged well ahead of time. So assuming a cold call from someone claiming to be the President, calling from a random cell phone with either a New York or a Florida area code (making an educated guess here), putting it in the “nice try jokester” bin is reasonable and prudent.
Amir Khalid
It’s sad to see how the party of Lincoln has transformed over the years into the party of Trump. We may be about to see the latter eat itself, at least at the national level. If that does indeed happen, what then for the party at state and local levels?
The Oracle of Solace
With all this crap going on, the Barbarian is convinced it’s still 2020 and isn’t coming out of her pillow fort until the day after December 50th.
lgerard
@lgerard:
it took 18 tries before they went to
“Meadows arranged Saturday’s call after collecting all the participants’ cellphone numbers and connecting with them directly”
Amir Khalid
@lgerard:
Cellphone numbers? Even I know that these calls are supposed to go through landlines.
Major Major Major Major
Excited for the election tomorrow! Last election of 2020!
Amir Khalid
Actress Tanya Roberts, whose passing was noted in the threads here yesterday, is still alive.
The Moar You Know
Very obvious at this point that McConnell has zero control over his caucus, and it is reasonable to question if he ever had any, or just rode the bandwagon the entire time. He wanted to go down in history as one of the greats, an LBJ-caliber Majority Leader. He’s not even close.
Just Some Fuckhead
Haha. Republicans are never in disarray. Sure, there are a few loud elected RINOs making trouble for Trump and the crazy base right now but they’ll go the way of Flake and Corker soon enough. The derp doesn’t go back into the bottle.
West of the Rockies
@Amir Khalid:
She’s only mostly dead.
joel hanes
McCarthy’s not as big a moron as, for instance, Louie Gohmert
… but Mark Meadows, who was in on Trump’s call to Raffensperger, is.
Meadows refused all summer to negotiate pandemic relief with Pelosi. His predecessor as WH CoS, Mulvaney, negotiated the first pandemic relief bill.
CaseyL
@joel hanes:
Refusing to negotiate has nothing to do with being a moron. The GOP is not about policy. Maybe once upon a time it was, but those days are long gone. The GOP is all about, and only about, grifting. Riling up the mouth-breathers is part of the grift: not only can the rubes be regularly shaken down (and they love being taken for every dollar they own), but keeping government from, well, governing means they will always be full of incoherent rage and grievance.
Trump himself is dumber than a bag of hair, but only when it comes to everyday knowledge about life, history, and the world. He’s smart as a tack when it comes to running a con. Since that’s all the GOP cares about, they adore him. He’s shown the way to being what they wanted to be all along.
the pollyanna from hell
Neither embarrassment nor criminal prosecution will slow white supremacy down. Back in the day those frustrated the KKK, but that just opened doors for the Birchers in my extended family. I take comfort in knowing that the apocalypse they imagined actually did come to pass and eliminate them in their own families, now hippies all.
RandomMonster
Mercifully, I didn’t have an opportunity to watch Covigula’s rally. I take it I didn’t miss much.
Fair Economist
@West of the Rockies:
I know you’re just trying to joke, but she’s been in critical condition for two weeks, and apparently her partner thought she *was* dead.
West of the Rockies
@Fair Economist:
I did not know that. I apologize for the ill-advised attempt at levity.
BruceFromOhio
Do these guys know that “leading the charge” means you get shot at at, and some of your comrades might end up dead?
Maybe they should know this before going further.
AxelFoley
@Just Some Fuckhead:
Well, well…look who showed up. LOL
patrick II
@CaseyL:
Agreed. Dumb and forgetful about most things, but on that phone call he reeled off the various conspiracy theories like they were on his finals — which in a way they are.
HumboldtBlue
@lgerard:
If that’s true it’s worth a song a dance and an entire musical of fun.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Amir Khalid: Got an alert on my watch on that as I was taking the cocker out for a walk…Opps.
HumboldtBlue
Sm*t Cl*de
“Republicans were in open warfare”. There appear to be no area weapons in play. I am disappoint.
Kent
@Sm*t Cl*de: No shit. I thought they were all supposed to be “open carry” supporters and stuff.
mrmoshpotato
Oh, it’s been shitpile for decades. Dump was just a better conman than the rest of the bastards. A bunch of con artists got outconned by a better conman.
Ruckus
@BruceFromOhio:
These are not the guys you warn about that.
They want to lead the charge, be out front, take all the blame, and all the incoming, why would you want to stop that?
Mag
The only disarray is the Republicans who want to say the quiet parts out loud and the Republicans who want to keep saying the quiet parts quietly.
Twitter thread from Jared Yates Sexton:
Luciamia
Pomp? What pomp?
cain
@West of the Rockies:
I for one am happy she’s still amongst the living – she’s still gravely ill, but I hope she survives. Pretty crazy that her partner couldn’t tell if she actually died or not. If she survives, she’s gonna kick his ass.
NotoriousJRT
Kevin McCarthy last and probably dimmest and most inept of the Republican “Young Guns.” What a joke (they all were).
Cameron
@BruceFromOhio: If Mo is leading the charge, are Larry and Curly flanking him?
WereBear
@The Moar You Know:
I think we continually underestimate the extent to which bullying works, and how rampant its use is in any field.
Mark Halperin is a case in point. Until finally felled by #MeToo, he held high-paying corporate media jobs on the basis of threats; sexual harassment, “don’t make me beat you up” body language in elevators, late night phone call cursing sessions… whatever it took for the other person to give up and give him what he wanted.
This is the source of McConnell’s power: you just know he looooooves being a bully, by whatever means he can grasp. And money gives you lots.
lgerard
@The Moar You Know:
McConnell’s power was always his fundraising ability. He is the most prolific fundraiser in history and no one ever wanted to cross him for fear of being cut off from the easy dollars he directed to campaigns.
Now, evidently a few senators have calculated that as McConnell is nearing the end of his career perhaps it is OK to appease the trump nuts a little even if it causes the chamber of commerce types to be mildly annoyed for a few months.
rikyrah
@Amir Khalid:
Unsecured phones??
The man has always been a national security problem
sukabi
@NotoriousJRT: Kevin “I think Russia is paying two guys, Trump is one and Rohrbacher is the other” McCarthy was likely compromised shortly after he made that observation. And he hasn’t waivered in his support for anything Trump since.
rikyrah
Wish a Frontpager would find this clip from Maddow yesterday.
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https://twitter.com/PurpleReign14/status/1346323469135441920?s=19
rikyrah
@rikyrah:
terben
@HumboldtBlue: My aspiration for 2021 is
“I’d appreciate it if you stopped bloody poking me in the face with your nuts”
OzarkHillbilly
Never never never do criminaling on a landline. Always get a burner phone and don’t use anybody’s name. Of course, they didn’t do any of that either. They probably all failed Conspiracy 101.
Geminid
@Amir Khalid: The various toxic strains that trump turbocharged have been eating away at the republican party for decades. In his excellent Bearing Drift article “Trump is the Republican President,” author M.D. Russ examines the question, did trump hijack the Republican party? No, Russ concludes, “Trump just answered the casting call.”
The conflicts highlighted in the post have plagued the Virginia party at least since the rise of the “Tea Party” in 2009. The Chamber of Commerce types that used to call the shots in Virginia republican politics are losing the intraparty struggle, while at the statewide level Virginia has gone from red to blue in 20 years.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Amir Khalid: It’s to much for dumbass Donny to understand how easy it is the tap cellphones.
Anne Laurie
@rikyrah: Does it count that I put the MaddowBlog tweet with Ms. Weil’s video statement at the top of tonight’s COVID-19 post?
(Agree — she is a GREAT influence!)
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@BruceFromOhio: the Titans also lost in Greek Mythology, so a well informed Republican.
So who is going point out the obvious that the if the election was fixed in Georgia than all Georgia elections are invalid? I mean I know in Conservatard land it’s something you aren’t allowed to say, like “were is the proof of your position” or “this is illegal and immoral” or “you do understand Stalin wasn’t American and a communist?”
I think this is the Wingnut Event Horizon finally. they are off accusing each other of being secret space lizards and what not the rest of can’t understand.
raven
What I hate about Mornin Joe is that he pussyfoots around so much when he calls the republican senators traitors and cowards.
Freemark
@cain: Her partner can’t see her due to COVID restrictions and the hospital told him she had died. Oops!
Ruckus
@Amir Khalid:
It’s been trying to eat everything else for decades, and pretty much everything it could to become the party of complete cockups. It succeeded when it ran shitforbrains as president and proved that when he won – legally or otherwise. All that has happened since is show who they really are and that a lot of people are convinced that good government is the worst thing in the world. Politics in several countries has become turned inside out and upside down, with not only some citizens but far too many politicians convinced that complete chaos and stupidity is the answer to the question, how do we ruin our political systems/countries, in an effort to make some wealthy far beyond their potential and abilities. It’s clowns running the mob. At least the mob knew that keeping order and minimal living conditions was better for business.
Kosh III
“It’s sad to see how the party of Lincoln has transformed over the years into the party of Trump. ”
Yes, Ike, Jacob Javits and Everett Dirksen must be turning in their graves.
Geminid
@Kosh III: Former Republican Senator John Warner is still kicking around Virginia. He has not said he’s left the party, but he now endorses Democrats in federal and state elections.
Just Some Fuckhead
@AxelFoley: Dude, pie me or move along or something. You’re acting like a spurned little bitch. Not a good look.