Team Trump the Losers drag their feet

[bodysong]

What possible purpose is there, to denying President-Elect Biden his rights ?

A shutdown is looming- How long will it last ?

Trump has crippled America, in every way possible. Trump has insured that Never-Never
Land of Wall Street and Trust Funders in Hedge Fund Land shall be protected from the fallout.

Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller—who has been on the job just over a month -
abruptly ordered a Pentagon-wide halt to any transition briefings on Thursday night
shocking officials across the department,

Acting Pentagon chief halts Biden transition briefings

Axios

Real Defense Secretary Mark Esper terminated by Trump- John F. Kelly, the former chief
of staff, said Esper had “made the decision to stay loyal to the law and constitution and paid the price.”

Trump's acting (temp) Defense Secretary Chris Miller has only had the job for a month-
Miller has abruptly ordered a department-wide halt to cooperation with the Biden transition
team. Miller did as he as told, and he lied about it.

Biden spokesperson Yohannes Abraham directly contradicted acting Defense
Secretary Chris Miller's claims that the two teams "mutually agreed" to pause
the interviews.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/18/pentagon-meetings-biden-team-448156

If Chris Miller hoped to delay the outing of Trump's seceret, it is too late-
Trump stole money from US cybersecurity to build his wall
"Cybersecurity operating on a shoestring."

(Trump took his swindle into every government office- money for his slush fund.)

Amy Siskind ✓
Twitter › Amy_Siskind

The Russian hacking of our federal agencies is basically an act of war,
and not only has Trump said nothing, he is now blocking Biden's team
from getting briefed by the Pentagon. Every member of Congress who
cares about national security should be speaking out now.

3 hours ago

David Weissman ✓
Twitter › davidmweissman

Why aren't Republicans concerned about the fact that Russia has hacked
into our nuclear weapons agency?

2 hours ago

Axios ✓
Twitter › axios

Sen. Ron Johnson objected to fellow Republican Sen. Josh Hawley's motion
to pass a bill that would provide $1,200 to Americans in the form of direct
stimulus checks, citing the ballooning national debt.

(link)

12 minutes ago

 

[Dribble]

They are Fascists. Only a Fascist will support a Fascist

 

[bodysong]

Molly Jong-Fast ✓
Twitter › MollyJongFast

(graphic- screen grab of FOX TV- banner title- Chad Pergram (congressional correspondent for FOX TV)

Yeah wouldn’t want those starving children and dying Americans to interfere
with @JimInhofe anniversary party plans.

one hour ago

Jim Inhofe put Senate senior leadership on notice Friday that he does not intend
to stay in Washington to work through the weekend.

 

[bodysong]

Team Trump Losers using the budget battle to sabotage President-Elect Biden's plan
for America's recovery from coronavirus-

December 18, 2020

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/18/congress-stimulus-talks-funding-448089

Hypocrisy on the Right. No surprises,

 

[bodysong]

Rasmussen Calls on Mike Pence to Reject 2020 Electoral Votes
for Biden From Battleground States

December 28, 2020

Rasmussen is urging Vice President Mike Pence to ignore the 2020 election results
when Congress moves to certify Joe Biden’s victory in the Electoral College next week.

The conservative-leaning pollster and opinion outlet amplified a column that begins
with a quote attributed to Russian dictator Joseph Stalin, which says-

“Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.”

https://www.mediaite.com/news/rasmu...ral-votes-for-biden-from-battleground-states/

Come January 6th:

(Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything. -
Stalin)

"Come January 6, 2021, Vice President Mike Pence will be presented with the
sealed certificates containing the ballots of the presidential electors.

1/4
— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) December 27, 2020

stuart stevens
Twitter › stuartpstevens

I worked in 5 R. presidential campaigns
This is my account of how the R Party became Trump.

I don't know which is better.

@Rasmussen_Poll quoting Stalin when there's actually no evidence Stalin ever said this
or @Rasmussen_Poll thinking a Stalin quote is a good proof point to

2 hours ago

oh, a monster with feet of shit, not clay-

stuart stevens
Twitter › stuartpstevens

In Florida, @marcorubio was working for a law and lobbying firm while serving
in the state legislature. Yeah, you can do that in Florida. His income went from $72k
a year to $414k when he was Speaker & could really deliver. He’s a total self-righteous
fraud & always has been.

21 hours ago

How far right, is Rasmussen_Poll ?

Rasmussen Reports ✓
Twitter › Rasmussen_Poll

72% of Likely Republican Voters think their party should be more like Trump
than like the average GOP member of Congress. Twenty-four percent (24%)
see the average Republican in Congress as a better model...

6 hours ago

bodysong comment- I doubt very much, that real Republicans have anything in common
with Trump's Fan Club, or Trump Loyalists. Trump led innocents and the gullible, into
believing fairytales. They woke, after they found out that Trump sold them a pack of lies,
and false promises.

 

[bodysong]

The digging of Trump's lawyers, comes up with the strangest items-

The lawsuit asserts that the 1887 law known as the Electoral Count Act, the vague statute
that has long governed the electoral vote counting process with minimal drama -
unconstitutionally binds Pence from exercising total authority to choose which
votes to count.

"Under the Twelfth Amendment, Defendant Pence alone has the exclusive authority
and sole discretion to open and permit the counting of the electoral votes for a given
state, and where there are competing slates of electors, or where there is objection to
any single slate of electors, to determine which electors’ votes, or whether none, shall
be counted," the suit contends.

The lawsuit comes before Judge Jeremy Kernodle, a Trump appointee to the U.S.
District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/1...-defeat-451485

Rep. Louie Gohmert's lawsuit against Pence asks a Trump-appointed judge to rule
that the vice president is authorized to throw out the already-cast electoral college
votes and instead appoint his own slate of pro-Trump electors to give the president
a second term.

https://www.rawstory.com/louie-gohmert-pence-lawsuit/

Anthony Michael Kreis ✓
Twitter › AnthonyMKreis

“This is insane,” tweeted Georgia State University law professor Anthony Michael Kreis.
True.

4 hours ago

Led by Lone Star State Rep. Louie Gohmert, a coalition of outgoing President Donald
Trump’s right-wing loyalists asked a federal judge on Sunday to gut a post-Reconstruction
era law in order give Vice President Mike Pence the power to determine the winner of the
2020 presidential election on Jan. 6, 2021.

Gohmert’s cohorts include ex-“Kraken” plaintiff Tyler Bowyer and the Arizona Republican
Party’s chairwoman Kelli Ward.

The lawsuit, which was filed against Pence in his official capacity as vice president, is
based on outright falsehoods—there are no “competing electors”—
and an absurd misreading of federal law that would let the VP unilaterally decide
the outcome of his own election.

The election results in every U.S. state have already been certified and the Electoral
College votes for Biden have already been cast. There is absolutely no constitutional
provision allowing for states to have “competing” or “alternate” slates of electors.
The “votes” those groups sent to Congress do not have any legal authority.

https://lawandcrime.com/2020-electio...-election-win/

 

[sighLent]

CryBabyBiden

https://thelemon.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/No-Credit-Car-Loans-Baby-and-Jill-Biden.jpg

 

[YDB95]

Uh, yeah, how dare they expect cooperation in making sure the incoming administration is up to speed on all matters of national security?

 

[Champakian]

He doesn't have any superadditional rights upon being (possibly) elected.

He has not been sworn in, he is not the President and he should go back to hunkering down in his basement since Covid still reigns supreme.

 

[adrina]

He doesn't have any superadditional rights upon being (possibly) elected.

He has not been sworn in, he is not the President and he should go back to hunkering down in his basement since Covid still reigns supreme.

If you ever thought of yourself as a patriot, you can hang that hat up now.

If you ever were concerned about national security, that one can go too.

If you were ever concerned about continuity of government, yup that's over with.

So how much more are you willing to sell out in your worship of Trump?

 

[Dribble]

Never heard any complaints about the Obama Administration...is this "another" win for Donald Duck?

 

[LLCox]

Chaos to the very last day.

 

[RobDownSouth]

He doesn't have any superadditional rights upon being (possibly) elected.

He has not been sworn in, he is not the President and he should go back to hunkering down in his basement since Covid still reigns supreme.

Good morning, halfbreed halfwit. The president elect has a shit-ton of "rights" accorded to him via the Presidential Transition Act of 2010. You should look it u sometime. Transition funding, expedited security clearances for proposed cabinet picks, just a hole slew of perks enshrined by law.

The one thing not mentioned by law, but done by custom since way back in 1968, is access to the presidential daily briefing (PDB).

Since that is the one thing that the sour grapes sore loser one term impeached president can use to "punish" someone who beat him fair and square, President Trump is withholding that briefing to President-elect Biden purely out of spite.

Because as you and your fellow halfbreed halfwit BoBo are fond of saying, "stiggin' it to teh libtards" is more important that national security.

 

[bodysong]

Intelligencer ✓
Twitter › intelligencer

In a press release, fake Trump electors in Pennsylvania rightly pointed to one exception
to the universal rule of Congress leaving certified electors in place: Hawaii in 1960/

(link to NY magazine)

5 hours ago

 

[sighLent]

#RESIST: Biden Claims Trump Defense, Budget Officials ‘Obstructing’ Transition.

Flashback: Obama, Biden Oval Office Meeting On January 5 Was Key To Entire Anti-Trump Operation.

 

[YesMO]

Turns out, PlagerizerBiden LIED

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahb...-biden-teams-claim-about-information-n2582299

 

[bodysong]

Congress overrides a Trump veto for the first time
with Senate vote on defense bill

January 1, 2021

The Senate on Friday voted to turn a $741 billion defense authorization bill into law
over President Trump’s objections, delivering the first successful veto override of his
presidency in the waning days of his administration.

The bill contains new restrictions on how much of the military’s construction budget
the president may move by emergency order — a direct response to Trump’s efforts
to divert billions of the Pentagon’s dollars toward the border wall. It also limits the
president’s ability to draw down troop levels in Germany, South Korea and Afghanistan —
a move Trump had planned over the objections of members of his own party.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...ca9c96-4c51-11eb-a9d9-1e3ec4a928b9_story.html

Trump Handed Defeat as Congress overrides his defense bill veto

January 1, 2021

(Bloomberg)

Congress handed Donald Trump a major, bipartisan defeat in the waning days of his
presidency, as the Republican-led Senate voted to override his veto of a $740.5
defense policy bill.

It’s the first time one of Trump’s vetoes has been surmounted.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/01...es-closer-vote-overriding-trump-defense-veto/

 

[bodysong]

Jake Maccoby ✓
Twitter › jdmaccoby

[tragedy brews]
DEMS: let’s take action
GOP: no you’re being hysterical
[tragedy occurs]
DEMS: ok now
GOP: no you’re being political
[tragedy fades]
DEMS: ok now?
GOP: lol it’s too late, where’ve you been

7 hours ago

 

[bodysong]

Dared to sign their names, in a letter to Biden

10 GOP Senators plan to propose a new compromise COVID-19 bill

1. Mitch McConnell R- Kentucky
2. Susan Collins, R-Maine
3.Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska,
4.Todd Young of Indiana,
5.Jerry Moran of Kansas,
6.Thom Tillis of North Carolina,
7.Rob Portman of Ohio,
8.Mike Rounds of South Dakota,
9.Mitt Romney of Utah
10.Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia.


White House plays down prospects for Biden-GOP meeting on relief bill

Biden press secretary says meeting is not ‘a forum for the president to make
or accept an offer’

In addition to Collins, the senators involved in Monday’s meeting are
Sens. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Mitt Romney (Utah), Bill Cassidy (La.),
Rob Portman (Ohio), Todd C. Young (Ind.), Shelley Moore Capito (W.Va.),
Jerry Moran (Kan.), Thom Tillis (N.C.), and Mike Rounds (S.D.).

The significance of assembling a group of 10 Republican senators is that, if joined by Democrats, they could reach the 60-vote threshold needed to pass legislation under normal Senate procedures. The Senate is split 50-50 between Republicans and Democrats, with Democrats holding the majority because Vice President Harris can break ties.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/02/01/biden-stimulus-covid-relief/

 

[bodysong]

Republican senators present ridiculous Trojan horse COVID-19 plan to Biden, demand 'unity'

February 1, 2021

How can you tell a "bipartisan plan" is not really a bipartisan plan?

When it's being pushed by 10 Republicans and is headed up by Sen. Mitch McConnell's
favorite water carrier, Sen. Susan Collins.

- Joan McCarter

These Republicans have hacked up the $1.9 trillion plan initiated by President Biden
and currently being crafted by Democrats by more than two-thirds to just $600
billion because, well, hell.

Who knows why.

What's probably at work here is Republicans figuring they can once again push Biden's
old Senate guy buttons from back before McConnell laid waste to the institution, and
appeal to his nostalgia for what used to be. The problem is they're using McConnell's
definition of bipartisan cooperations: total capitulation by Democrats. You can tell it's
a McConnell feint by the fact that there is no funding for state and local governments
beyond $20 billion for a national vaccine program. That alone pretty much kills any
chance of Biden or any Democrat touching it. On top of that, they are offering $1,000
survival checks, starting to reduce the payments at $40,000 in income and capped
at $50,000. That's $40K and $50K determined by 2019 income, as if a year of
pandemic hasn't affected incomes.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...d-COVID-19-plan-to-Biden-in-the-name-of-unity

 

[LLCox]

The repubicans are only starting to cry. I think even more money will be sent to the public before the year is over. It's ugly out in America.

 

[bodysong]

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is dragging his feet.

Mike Pence left the building, and Vice President Kamala Harris is inside.

 

[bodysong]

Democrats Reject GOP Attempt to Say Pledge of Allegiance at Judiciary Meetings

I proposed that we begin each meeting of the House Judiciary Committee
by reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.

Democrats just said "no."@RepJerryNadler said it's "unnecessary."

(pic)

— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) February 4, 2021

Rep. Matt Gaetz ✓
Twitter › RepMattGaetz

(graphic- himself! on FOXTV)

Democrats in the Judiciary Committee today objected to saying the
Pledge of Allegiance...one of the reasons they gave was that it is a
"symbol of white supremacy," and that saying it would reinforce racism.
This divisive rhetoric from House Dems does nothing to advance unity.

23 hours ago

"It's unnecessary. The House begins every day with the Pledge of Allegiance,
we're covered by that."

- Rep. Jerry Nadler (D)

Rep. Nadler ✓
Twitter › RepJerryNadler

As we celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth, may we honor the contributions
made and the adversity endured by Black Americans while recommitting
to the work of fulfilling the promise of America as an equal, safe, inclusive
home for all. Let us build a more just future.

9 hours ago

 

[bodysong]

John Fugelsang ✓
Twitter › JohnFugelsang

Yes, I'm scared of thugs in MAGA hats trying to overthrow
a US election, in the Capitol, on Jan 6... ...but I'm more scared
of thugs in suits trying to overthrow a US election, in the Capitol,
later in the day on Jan 6.

#ImpeachmentTrial #TrumpIsGuilty #LindseyIsADisgrace

24 hours ago