It was quite late here on the East Coast, and I had already dozed off for awhile and woken back up, but I felt I’d be damned if I wasn’t going to sit here until the very end of the Senate’s announcement of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as President-Elect and Vice President-Elect.
So the Senate was finally voting on the idiotic objection to the Pennsylvania slate of electors and I heard a lot of NO’s and a few AYE’s, but when it got to Mike Lee, I thought I heard “hell no”.
It’s late. I must have imagined that. Mike Lee is such a Republican lapdog; there’s no way he’d say that.
But, as I later found out, indeed he did:
As most Republicans and all Democrats rejected the attempt, Senator Mike Lee, Republican of Utah, forcefully turned back the plot, registering his vote as “hell no.”
But why?
CNN reports that while he was sequestered and quite possibly fearing for his life, he got phone calls from the Seditionist-in-Chief and Ghouliani (actually meant for Sen. Tuberville) pleading with him to try and delay the counting of the Electoral votes:
Lee's spokesman said the calls from Trump and his attorney were intended for Sen. Tommy Tuberville, a newly elected Republican from Alabama.
The effort by the White House to get Tuberville to delay certification of the votes provides insight into the President's thinking and priorities as a mob of his supporters lay siege to the iconic building. As the President worked to convince Tuberville to delay the process,
he and other top White House officials did little to check in on Vice President Mike Pence while he and members of his family were inside the breached Capitol, a source close to the vice president told CNN.
Trump called at 2 P.M., and then at 7 P.M. it was Giuliani.
Lee’s office hasn’t exactly commented on the matter, but that may be because they would have used expletives much stronger than the one Lee used on the Senate floor.
Can you believe this s**t?