Sing a Song of Pence

Mike Pence just took a stand.

The former Vice President spoke at a meeting of the Federalist Society saying that Donald Trump was wrong when he said that the Electoral Count Act of 1887, which Congress is trying to amend to make its intent clearer, gave him the right to decide who won the 2020 election.  

Trump pretty much admitted to the coup attempt in 2020 and 2021 in a statement defending his novel interpretation of the Electoral Count Act.    "What they are saying," Trump said in reference to attempt so reword that law,  "is that Mike Pence did have the right to change the outcome, and they now want to take that right away.  Unfortunately, he didn't exercise that power, he could have overturned the election!"

Pence made it clear that the opposite is true.  "Under the Constitution, I had no right to change the outcome of our election," he said, and he added that Vice President Kamala Harris will have no right to do so in January 2025. 

"Frankly," he added, "there is no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American President."

Meanwhile, the Electoral Count Act should be tidied up to make sure that a future Vice President will never again be put in the position that Pence was in - not to mention the fact the he came being close to being lynched.  Congress is working on that.  But it still may be possible for Republican operatives in various states to rig the electoral votes that reach Washington in the 2024 election to make sure that Trump - or Ron DeSantis or some other Mussolini wannabe - gets installed into the Presidency over the will of the voters.  We're still at risk of becoming a kleptocratic fascist dictatorship. 

A fascist dictatorship governed by a party that sanctifies violence as "legitimate political discourse" . . . something so sacred to today's GOP that Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger are censured by the party for even investigating it.