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Fasten your seatbelts: Jan. 6, 2025 is just a few days away, and we could be in for a bumpy ride.
First, there are the Democrats. Back in Oct. 2024, a few weeks before the election, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Pirate Bay) said that if Trump “won a free, fair and honest election, then we would obviously accept it.” Hey, that’s mighty big of you, Jamie, thanks!
In a neat instance of projection, however, Raskin wasn’t at all sure whether or not Bad Orange Man would manage to thwart the will of the people and steal the election. He said that he “definitely” did not think that Trump would refrain from resorting to chicanery in order to win, and claimed that the focus of all evil in the modern world was “doing whatever he can to try to interfere with the process, whether we’re talking about manipulating electoral college counts in Nebraska or manipulating the vote count in Georgia or imposing other kinds of impediments.”
Well, now the election is over and Trump won fair and square, although in some leftist circles, conspiracy theories are still circulating about how Trump managed to purloin the big prize from right under the nose of the People’s Choice, Kamala Harris. Raskin has heatedly denied making a statement that has circulated widely, attributed to him: “Let folks cast their votes for Trump if that’s their choice. But mark my words, we won’t be certifying the election. He might win, but we’ll ensure he doesn’t step foot in the Oval Office.”
The outraged solon declared: “This fictional ‘quote’ is 100% fabricated. It’s one more lie in the stream of right-wing lies designed to undermine our election. Despite this actionable libel and all the disinformation, America is having a free and fair election and Congress will certify the winner.” Very well, then. Raskin didn’t say it. But why patriots would want to undermine an election that they won, Raskin didn’t say.
And even if Raskin didn’t say this, it’s hard to imagine the left, which has devoted eight years to trying to destroy Donald Trump, would stand idly by on Jan. 6 and let him be certified as the next president of the United States. Even if leftists really don’t have something up their sleeve for that day, however, the Republicans could ruin everything for themselves quite well on their own.
The Daily Caller reported Tuesday that Rep. Chip Roy (R-Tex.) “said Tuesday that Speaker Mike Johnson does not have the votes among the House Republican conference to continue serving as speaker despite President-elect Donald Trump’s endorsement of Johnson on Monday.”
If Roy is correct, this is a big deal, for as PJM’s Paula Bolyard explained Monday: “If there’s no House Speaker, there may not be a vote….
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࿗Infidel࿘ says
If there is no House Speaker, what is there to still prevent the House from certifying the election? It can’t all just hinge on one person
I do think Mike Johnson was a bad speaker when it came to standing up to both Biden and McConnell. However, now that he’s opposite Trump and Thune, it would probably be a different story
Captain Quirk says
We’ll see, sir, we’ll see. Nil de desperandum.
James Lincoln says
The U.S. House of Representatives needs a true MAGA speaker.
And I’m not sure that Mike Johnson is “MAGA enough”…