None Dare Call It Sedition

 In some lame attempt to shore up Trump's base, Senator Ted Cruz (R-Calgary) has put forward a "demand" there be a commission set up with presumably Trump flunkies in order to overturn a legitimate election.

Craven Cruz

Cruz is rumored to be a highly intelligent person, with Ivy League credentials all over the place.  Of course, being a Harvard grad especially denotes superior intellect.  Not everybody is proud of how Ted turned out.  More important than his legendary intellect, such as it is, Cruz is known for his naked ambition.  Once a sworn enemy of Trump's and vice versa, now Cruz is a major butt kisser.  Of course, this is all showboating or grandstanding to appease the Trump cultists, but really the correct course of action is not to subvert the Constitution and set a precedent for future elections but instead just let the Trump cultists go through the process of grief.

Hell, we Democrats put up with a lot from the GOP when Al Gore, John Kerry, and Hillary Clinton had elections stolen from them.  But we didn't pull the shit the current GOP pols are doing.

Even former House speaker Paul Ryan says these idiots need to knock it off.

Of course, all of this makes great copy for the media.   That was what their pushing Donald Trump for president was all about in the first place.  Just ask CNN's Jeff Zucker.

Meanwhile, Trump is acting like a mob boss at the same much of the GOP is acting like a crime syndicate:

President Trump pressured Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a fellow Republican, to ‘find’ enough votes to overturn his defeat to Joe Biden in the state, according to audio of a Saturday phone call obtained by the Washington Post https://t.co/Bq11goyumy

— Reuters (@Reuters) January 3, 2021

More is here. 

Keith Olbermann on this latest scandal:

In a sane world, Trump would have been removed a long time ago, but this GOP is little more than a criminal syndicate and allows him to get away with anything.

The call in question highlights from the Washington Post.  It was something like an hour long:

The reaction wasn't too favorable even among members of Trump's own party.

I will believe the end of the GOP when I see it:

The die is cast for the Republican Party. It will be destroyed on January 6th in much the same way the Whig party was destroyed by the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854. The act unraveled the Missouri compromise and allowed for the westward expansion of slavery. 1/

— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) January 3, 2021

I will also believe a resignation when I see it, Carl.