The Dirty Dozen

 

(image taken from the web)

These twelve Republican members of the U.S. Senate (and they may be joined by a few more) have announced that they will oppose the approval of the Electoral College results today.  In the House of Representatives at least 140 Republicans will also object to the will of the people.  Their efforts will be in vain... they do not have the necessary votes... but, when the history books of the future are written, their names will be remembered for one thing and one thing only.  They tried to subvert the representative democracy of this nation.  They have broken their oaths to defend the Constitution and are guilty of sedition.  They put party above country.

They have no evidence to present that massive voter fraud was committed... other than crackpot claims from the right-wing media.  Recounts and investigations in contested states were done with no significant changes (in some cases Biden's lead increased by a few votes).  The scores of cases brought to court have been dismissed.  The Supreme Court, the ultimate authority, has flat-out refused to hear the cases, in spite of the fact that it has a strong conservative majority and three justices who were nominated by the "pendejo". 

Oh, I apologize.  I had promised in November that I would never again acknowledge the "pendejo's" existence on this blog.  But I did say that with the caveat that I would not mention him "unless he commits some heinous act of treachery" in his last days in office.  Well, he did, something outrageous even for him, and we have the "smoking gun"... a tape of his phone conversation in which he tries to convince the Georgia Secretary of State to "find" enough votes to overturn Biden's victory.  Carl Bernstein, the reporter whose investigations brought about the resignation of Nixon in the 1970s, said this tape is far worse than Watergate, and in any other presidency would have resulted in impeachment and conviction with broad bi-partisan support.  Kudos to the Republican Secretary of State of Georgia who calmly told the "pendejo" that he was wrong, that his state's vote tally was accurate.  

These ludicrous attempts to steal the election will be futile, but they set a dangerous precedent and sully the integrity of our country.  They are the kind of events that one would expect from a "banana republic" dictatorship, not the nation that is supposed to be the world's ideal of democracy and rule of law.  

I will not live long enough, but I would love to read the history books written several decades from now and see how the "pendejo" and his sycophantic supporters are portrayed as the enemies of this nation, a gaggle of 21st century Benedict Arnolds.