Last week 203 House Republicans voted against legislation preventing U.S. Presidents from using the Electoral Count Act to overturn the will of the People. The bill did pass 229-203: every House Democrat present voted in favor and were joined by nine Republicans. The nine Republicans will not be in the House much longer as they are either retiring or lost their primary.
No one should be surprised by that vote, primarily because Republicans have been voting against democracy for a long time.
A few examples…
Domestic Terrorists in The House
September 2022
A vote Wednesday in the United States House of Representatives on legislation aimed at preventing presidents from using the Electoral Count Act to overturn the will of the People was passed by a margin of 229-203; every House Democrat present voted in favor and 203 Republicans voted against H.R.8873 – the Presidential Election Reform Act. Nine Republicans voted with Democrats, but the nine are leaving Congress when the current term ends, either because they are retiring or lost in their primary.
Worth repeating: 203 House Republicans voted against protections preventing future attempts to deny the peaceful transfer of power such as was attempted, and continues, by Donald Trump and his cabal of sycophants and traitors following the legitimate 2020 presidential election.
Here are the names of the 203 House Republicans…
| Aderholt Allen Amodei Armstrong Arrington Babin Bacon Baird Balderson Banks Barr Bentz Bergman Bice (OK) Biggs Bilirakis Bishop (NC) Boebert Bost Brady Brooks Buchanan Buck Bucshon Budd Burchett Burgess Calvert Cammack Carey Carl Carter (GA) Carter (TX) Cawthorn Chabot Cline Cloud Clyde Cole Comer Conway Crawford Crenshaw Curtis Davidson Davis, Rodney DesJarlais Diaz-Balart Donalds Duncan Dunn Ellzey Emmer Estes Fallon Feenstra Ferguson Finstad Fischbach Fitzgerald Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Flood Flores Foxx Franklin, C. Scott Fulcher Gaetz |
Gallagher Garbarino Garcia (CA) Gibbs Gimenez Gohmert Gonzales, Tony Good (VA) Gooden (TX) Gosar Granger Graves (LA) Graves (MO) Green (TN) Greene (GA) Griffith Grothman Guest Guthrie Harris Harshbarger Hartzler Hern Herrell Hice (GA) Higgins (LA) Hill Hinson Hollingsworth Hudson Huizenga Issa Jackson Johnson (LA) Johnson (OH) Johnson (SD) Jordan Joyce (OH) Joyce (PA) Keller Kelly (MS) Kelly (PA) Kim (CA) Kustoff LaHood LaMalfa Lamborn Latta LaTurner Lesko Letlow Long Loudermilk Lucas Luetkemeyer Mace Malliotakis Mann Massie Mast McCarthy McCaul McClain McClintock McHenry McKinley Meuser Miller (IL) |
Miller (WV) Miller-Meeks Moolenaar Mooney Moore (AL) Moore (UT) Mullin Murphy (NC) Nehls Newhouse Norman Obernolte Owens Palazzo Palmer Pence Perry Pfluger Posey Reschenthaler Rodgers (WA) Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rose Rosendale Rouzer Roy Rutherford Salazar Scalise Schweikert Scott, Austin Sempolinski Sessions Simpson Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smucker Spartz Stauber Steel Stefanik Steil Steube Stewart Taylor Tenney Thompson (PA) Tiffany Timmons Turner Valadao Van Drew Van Duyne Wagner Walberg Waltz Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Wenstrup Westerman Williams (TX) Wilson (SC) Wittman Womack Zeldin |
GOP Flying Their True Colours
January 2021
Neo Fascists In Suits And Dresses
Almost two hundred Republican members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives who publicly supported the former sitting president’s attempted coup hid under desks and chairs like the sniveling, spineless cowards they are when the armed and violent Trump domestic terrorists stormed the U.S. Capitol during the Electoral College certification of the Presidential election of Joe Biden looking to cause harm or kill Democratic leaders including Speaker of The House Nancy Pelosi, third in line to the Presidency.
The terrorists also were looking for Vice-President Mike Pence who Trump had labeled not loyal enough when he refused to overturn the election results during the Electoral College vote. The terrorists ‘chanted’ “hang Mike Pence”; they already had constructed a functioning gallows on Capitol grounds.
The terrorist assault resulted in the death of at least five, including a Capitol police officer.
A few hours later, these same traitors who hid under chairs and desks rose as the neo-fascists they are to once again play their role in the attempted coup. They returned to the vote and continued their attempt to overturn the legitimate election.
Here are the names…
Senate: United States of America
Ted Cruz (R-Texas)
Josh Hawley (R-Mo.)
Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.)
John Kennedy (R-La.)
Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.)
Roger Marshall (R-Kan.)
Rick Scott (R-Fla.)
Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.)
House of Representatives: United States of America
Fascists In The House
December 2020
106 Anti-Democracy House Republicans Sign On To Texas Bullshit Bid To Have Supreme Court Steal Election For Trump.
The traitors want election results of Michigan, Georgia, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania thrown out.
Trump lost in all four states.
UPDATE 20 More Join Attempt At Coup, Including Top Republican Leadership: Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.).
Here are the names – updated:
Ralph Abraham, Louisiana
Rick W. Allen, Georgia
James R. Baird, Indiana
Jim Banks, Indiana
Jack Bergman, Michigan
Andy Biggs, Arizona
Gus Bilirakis, Florida
Dan Bishop, North Carolina
Mike Bost, Illinois
Kevin Brady, Texas
Mo Brooks, Alabama
Ken Buck, Colorado
Ted Budd, North Carolina
Tim Burchett, Tennessee
Michael C. Burgess, Texas
Bradley Byrne, Alabama
Ken Calvert, California
Earl L. ‘Buddy’ Carter, Georgia
Ben Cline, Virginia
Michael Cloud, Texas
Mike Conaway, Texas
Rick Crawford, Arkansas
Dan Crenshaw, Texas
Mario Diaz-Balart,Florida
Jeff Duncan South, Carolina
Neal P. Dunn, Florida
Tom Emmer, Minnesota
Ron Estes, Kansas
A. Drew Ferguson, Georgia
Chuck Fleischmann, Tennessee
Bill Flores, Texas
Jeff Fortenberry, Nebraska
Virginia Foxx, North Carolina
Russ Fulcher, Idaho
Matt Gaetz, Florida
Greg Gianforte, Montana
Bob Gibbs, Ohio
Louie Gohmer,t Texas
Lance Gooden, Texas
Sam Graves, Missouri
Mark Green, Tennessee
Michael Guest, Mississippi
Andy Harris, Maryland
Vicky Hartzler, Missouri
Kevin Hern, Oklahoma
Clay Higgins, Louisiana
Trey Hollingsworth, Indiana
Richard Hudson, North Carolina
Bill Huizenga, Michigan
Bill Johnson, Ohio
Mike Johnson, Louisiana
Jim Jordan, Ohio
John Joyce, Pennsylvania
Fred Keller, Pennsylvania
Mike Kelly, Pennsylvania
Trent Kelly, Mississippi
Steve King, Iowa
David Kustoff, Tennessee
Darin LaHood, Illinois
Doug LaMalfa, California
Doug Lamborn, Colorado
Robert E. Latta, Ohio
Debbie Lesko, Arizona
Blaine Leutkemeyer, Missouri
Kenny Marchant, Texas
Roger Marshall, Kansas
Tom McClintock, California
Cathy McMorris Rogers, Washington
Dan Meuser, Pennsylvania
Carol D. Miller, West Virginia
John Moolenaar, Michigan
Alex X. Mooney, West Virginia
Markwayne Mullin, Oklahoma
Gregory Murphy, North Carolina
Dan Newhouse, Washington
Ralph Norman, South Carolina
Gary Palmer, Alabama
Scott Perry ,Pennsylvania
Guy Reschenthaler, Pennsylvania
Tom Rice, South Carolina
John Rose, Tennessee
David Rouzer, North Carolina
John Rutherford, Florida
Steve Scalise, Louisiana (Minority whip)
Austin Scott, Georgia
Mike Simpson, Idaho
Adrian Smith, Nebraska
Jason Smith, Missouri
Ross Spano, Florida
Elise Stefanik, New York
Glenn ‘GT’ Thompson, Pennsylvania
Tom Tiffany, Wisconsin
Ann Wagner, Missouri
Tim Walberg, Michigan
Michael Waltz, Florida
Randy Weber, Texas
Daniel Webster, Florida
Brad Wenstrup, Ohio
Bruce Westerman, Arkansas
Roger Williams, Texas
Joe Wilson, South Carolina
Rob Wittman, Virginia
Ron Wright, Texas
Ted S. Yoho, Florida
Lee Zeldin, New York
Complete Amicus Curiae here (PDF)
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And, there’s this…
War Mongers and Sycophants and Psychopaths
April 2019
As the drums of war grow louder inside the White House and as Trump’s orgasmic dreams of bombing Iran on his way out get more vivid, I remembered a post from April 2019 and thought it an appropriate reread…
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With National Security adviser John Bolton, a long-time war monger and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, a newly forged Trump sycophant, acting as front men, the Administration is ratcheting up its agenda for war with Iran. And recent moves by Trump is making the international community a little bit nervous.
Just days ago, the Administration named Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist group. See Has Trump Locked U.S. and Iran into a “Permanent State of Enmity” by Listing Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a foreign terrorist organization?
Iran responded on Tuesday, see Iran’s parliament passed a bill on Tuesday requiring the government take firm steps to respond to “terrorist actions” by U.S. Forces.
The Administration, also just days ago, declared it will impose sanctions on our allies who do oil business with Iran. See U.S. to impose sanctions on allies in drive to push Iranian oil sales to zero.
The ‘world’ is getting the gitters but at least one country plans a pushback. See The Tightened U.S Ban on Iran Rattles Oil World. China likely to continue buying Iran’s oil.
But wait, there’s more…
It should come as no surprise that Republicans are not confronting Trump on these latest Iran moves. We just have to go back a mere four years to October 2015 to witness how those oh-so-patriotic, oh-so-brave Republicans stood up for the USA as they confronted that ‘evil empire’, Iran…
