And Sleepy Joe Will Get The Credit: US Politics January 2021

dunno how I expected this all to end but....holy fuck

what kind of message does resigning send? That they found some extra lifeboats?

love him or hate you gotta give it up for ol donnie

kinda feel guilty for laughing at this as hard as I did

Tommy Tuberville gets sworn in and the Capitol’s defense immediately falls apart.

— Bunkie Perkins (@BunkiePerkins) January 6, 2021

So cowardly it makes me sick. They are standing atop a mountain of corpses. https://t.co/MzhdQakEkv

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) January 7, 2021

dunno how I expected this all to end but....holy fuck

for the last several years everyone has assumed that at SOME point he has to back down, right? but..he doesn't do that. that will be unprecedented, if it ever happens. he will go down crawling and snarling

Oh okay it's more than just Loeffler, looks like I got my wish - a fair number of Republicans appear to have reversed course on the challenge

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/06/congress-electoral-college-vote-live-updates/

Too little too late of course but a bunch of Senators backed off

With officers and bomb-sniffing dogs still sweeping the Capitol on Wednesday night, Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), chair of the committee that controls the Capitol Police budget, held a news conference from his office via Zoom. He thanked those in the department who acted heroically in the face of the mob but said answers can’t come soon enough about the failures of planning that allowed the crowd to storm the Capitol, and images of some officers who appeared to allow protesters in.
“There were clearly enormous strategic and planning failures by the Capitol Police, by the Sergeant at Arms and anyone else who was a part of coordinating this effort. This is the United States Capitol building, with the United States Congress in session handling the presidential election process,” said Ryan, head of the House Appropriations Committee’s legislative branch subcommittee.
“The reinforcements that we thought — that I was told would be in place — that the National Guard was engaged, that D.C. metro police was engaged, that the SWAT teams were engaged, that we were prepared for this,” Ryan said. “There as a strategic breakdown, for sure, and you can bet your a-- we are going to get to the bottom of it.”
Ryan said he had been in frequent contact with Capitol Police and the sergeant at arms and had been assured as recently as Tuesday night that the Capitol complex was secure and that the department was coordinating with the Secret Service, D.C. police and the National Guard for any additional resources that would be needed.

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Ryan continued, “I think it’s pretty clear that there are going to be a number of people who are going to be without employment very, very soon because this is an embarrassment, both on behalf of the mob and the president and the insurrection and the attempted coup, but also the lack of professional planning and dealing with what we knew was going to occur.”

The message would be “inviting insurrectionists to physically attack an entire branch of government is a step too far even though we’d already emptied our desks”

I dunno, I need to go to bed, wiped out by this awful day

this is the part in the movie where they flee from the house fire, right?

ok sorry is this 25th amendment stuff for real or not, because if it is it seems like the cable news would be covering that and not these tedious speeches

Mitt Romney giving Hawley some great looks right now

excuse me, josh hawley is holding forth

*WRETCHING VOMIT NOISES*

I can't listen to Josh Hawley. I closed my WaPo app as soon as his name was called.

ok sorry is this 25th amendment stuff for real or not, because if it is it seems like the cable news would be covering that and not these tedious speeches

― k3vin k., Wednesday, January 6, 2021 9:17 PM (ten seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

a very legit washington journalist reported it but what does it mean that theyre talking about it

he's addressing the camera and not the speaker, class

i am watching and it is like the dune scene with the box of pain

The 25th news so far is SOME PEOPLE ARE SERIOUSLY DISCUSSING

be real hilarious if all of the people who thought they were about to cash in their 4 year "Will Trump finish his first term?" bet on PredictIt.org lost in the last two weeks

Some cabinet members are holding preliminary discussions about invoking the 25th amendment to force Trump’s removal from office, a source familiar with the matter tells CNN. It’s unclear whether the effort would ultimately be successful at this stage.

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) January 7, 2021

these shmendricks never end, one just retires and the pod disgorges a new one

I heard Romney was death-glaring at the back of Hawley's head so I logged back on only to hear him re-argue the PA mail-in ballots with the word "irregardless" and I give up, I wish terrible things upon him.

it'd go to Grassley and Pelosi. why wouldn't it be

Oh good, PA's senator is up next and I think he's swinging for the stands??!

there should be a rule where senators are required to deliver their remarks in their states regional accent

My farhead is damp with warter!

and now, cory booker delivers a joisey-flavored rebuke

the fact that all these Republicans are now just suddenly backing away from challenging the EC vote makes it even worse, it's now 100% clear that this was just a stupid game to them

Can’t believe the coup was over before prime time tbh

i feel like the word "charade" has come up often tonight, and should be permanently attached to this bullshit

kinda surprised they're doing it, not cos of the 'contradiction', but oh, they're now suddenly not afraid? makes it clearer that they coulda done something all along

they're going home to their gated communities, they're fine

xpost it was a caper, nothing more! a foible!

Can’t believe the coup was over before prime time tbh

― is right unfortunately (silby), Wednesday, January 6, 2021 9:26 PM (twenty-nine seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

makes u think

mittens

Okay Mitt is doing well

nice pass-agg applause for Mitt from Dem senators there

this was a dude who had the chutzpah to not even have a concession speech written and even he accepted the results of *his* election

I suspect it's cos "MOrmons don't fight'

Good point, internet: where's Barr?

Wait, Mormons aren't pacifist!

Good point, internet: where's Barr?

Talk of Elaine Chao resigning. Can deputies vote for article 25?

Roseanne was only a mormon on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons

xpost Man, I totally forgot Barr was gone.

"sorry I encouraged the nazis, I guess" - what I assume this entirely consists of (I'm not watching)

Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.

I don’t want to like Portman but this is a good speech

bad point, internet!

this is very underwritten - so it can be a majority of the Cabinet OR Congress OR....somebody else?