Sure, why not? Coerced promises aren’t legally binding, and they have already set the pace when it comes to keeping non-coerced promises, so win/win.
So promise not to investigate. It’s not like keeping promises is a norm that the Administration is bound to abide by.
And if things work out in January, it won’t be up to the Republicans anyway.
ETA: GMTA, eh, Czarcasm?
Apparently this Individual 1 campaign witness was drunk? It’s Victoria Jackson, ex-Saturday Night Live.
https://twitter.com/MollyJongFast/status/1334318185772961796
And, given Lindsey’s flip flop on Supreme Court openings, he’s not a man of his word, anyway
She’s clearly angling for a Sarah Palin career path. Go from an idiot nothing in nowhere to milker of the willingly ignorant Republican base. Maybe a reality show or two.
No wonder the judge found her statements to be “not credible”.
"Ms. Carone’s description of the events at the TCF Center does not square with any of the other affidavits,” Judge Timothy Kenny found. “There are no other reports of lost data, or tabulating machines that jammed repeatedly every hour during the count. Neither Republican nor Democratic challengers nor city officials substantiate her version of events. The allegations simply are not credible.”
It’s the weirdest thing in the world, watching a mass psychosis unfold in front of you. Frightening and weird.
Smart people can convince themselves of this lunacy and believe it with all their hearts. The dumb ones don’t stand a chance. And we all live with the consequences.
Dan Rather tweets:
We’ve seen quite a large number of people participating in mass psychoses since before 11 September 2001. It’s long past weird. Sadly, it’s damn near usual now.
Isn’t Sept. 11 a bit different, though? The mass psychosis Aspenglow referred to involved 72,000,000 misguided-as-fuck folks, which I find to be a whole disconcerting (and distinctly different) level of shitty wierdness, altogether.
It would be interesting (but unlikely) to see the response if the AG used language similar to Graham’s when he promised not to vote on a judge just before the election.
That definitely gets at the point I was trying to make. Thank you. Like you, I’m gobsmacked.
I do think the current craziness is deeply lodged in our overreaction to September 11th, though. It was awful, horrible, and it deserved a significant response. But we lost our minds instead. Things haven’t been the same since. If he could, Bin Laden would laugh from his watery grave at what we’ve become.
Yep.
Let’s call his bluff. It’s way past time.
Even if he did veto it, there should be enough bipartisan votes in Congress for this bill to un-veto it.
C’mon Congress, I dare ya!
Trump set the precedent of using “Acting” heads of agencies to get around that pesky need to have his choice confirmed. There’s an option.
On the other hand if Trump keeps shooting the party’s own foot in Georgia the Senate may wind up in Democrat hands in which case Ludicrous Lindsay won’t matter.
Oh, for a nominee who’s troll enough to respond, “I expect that my department will be too busy investigating your attempt to interfere in the Georgia presidential election certification.”
Yes, but does Durham even take the investigation seriously? I’m guessing not.
September 11th absolutely led us down this rabbit hole, though. It was the perfect shock to our system.
I have reflected many times over the years about how that event fundamentally changed our society and altered our trajectory.
In many regards, as politically incorrect as it is to say it, Bin Laden beat us. He did what terrorists set out to do, which is to fundamentally change the behavior of the target.
I think it may be more complicated than just putting someone in there without Senate confirmation and calling them “acting” though. My recollection is that the new acting person has to have been Senate confirmed in some other position. I may be misremembering.
I’ve been reading Where Law Ends, Andrew Weissman’s inside account of the Mueller investigation — and that “Pardon Me” line was an ongoing inside joke among the investigators.
I will be absolutely delighted, if after being pardoned he immediately commits some acts he can be prosecuted for by the next administration.
It would be a beautiful thing, if the last act of the Trump Administration is to suffer a veto override. It could happen, since a few Republicans seem to have found their cojones now that Trump can’t hurt them anymore.
You’re not misremembering. An acting position requires Senate confirmation in some other capacity first. This will limit Biden’s ability considerably if confirmation requires Republican Senate approval.