Politics: The Primary Compromise

These blog posts are normally on the first Thursday of the month and I have a big one that I’m working on that isn’t done yet. To ensure that something is done, I’m going to publish this post here today since I’m unsure if I have the last Thursday free for this blog.

 

The title of this post basically has me thinking that if we don’t want an incumbent to win, we should think of a compromise about what to do in order to get them out of office. If they face any primary challenge, we should do whatever it takes to ensure that they lose that primary. I do realize that not everyone has the luxery of living in an open primary state. Others wouldn’t want to vote in the other party’s primary or donate to the other party. But I feel that it is a good thing to point out from time to time.

 

I won’t add too much more. I am posting a lot in a facebook group called I’m glad they finally passed health care reform that will talk about primaries this year. I hope to do updates into the attorney general races, House races, gubernatorial races, and senate races over time. I also want to do more updates into the sedition caucus, but largely as they leave office by posting about those who leave office as they leave. It started with 147 and the number will lower.

Politics: On Political Sign Theft and Vandalism

While I want to talk about the upcoming 2022 elections, I won’t do it much in this post, but will cover a link here to keep track of some things in the meantime. I really need to get the long post done on the presidential race from over a year ago that people are still fighting about. I hope that this link will tide you over as I get to what this actual post in about: 

https://www.270towin.com/2022-election-calendar/

There’s something that I want to write about. Getting to the actual point of this post, there are times when people of either party, but probably more than likely the Republican Party, wind up stealing political signs or vandalizing them.

Obviously, this shouldn’t be done. And not just because stealing and vandalism are both wrong and illegal, but because these people are just going to replace them with new signs which would further fund the campaign of people that one wouldn’t want in office. 

Simply put: don’t vandalize political signs or steal them either. If you don’t like them, do what I do: pretend to shoot them with paintball guns in your mind, getting a point for each drive. Don’t actually shoot them with anything or vandalize them in any way. Just pretend to.

Politics: Gerrymandering

I know that I don’t have time yet to do my huge planned posts on the 2020 presidential race. What I know is that you are going to hear a lot about gerrymandering throughout the years. We will keep hearing about it. And we are going to hear about it more this year as it relates to the whole redistricting concept that is happening.

Sometimes it seems that gerrymandering is turned into a scapegoat to be blamed for why one party doesn’t win when it logically should. Indeed, if a party gets over a million more votes, but the other party wins more seats, it is quite clear that the math doesn’t add up.

Of course, this is something that both sides exploit. The Democrats make it sound like a great evil that shouldn’t be done. They are right, but they also do it themselves. They want you to think that only Republicans do it and that’s how Democrats lose races that should rightfully be won by them. But they also engage in gerrymandering when they can and this is a problem.

What’s worth noting is just how much worse the Republicans are with this. I don’t believe that this can be solved. Gerrymandering has to be done away with. I have no idea if this is even possible to do and pull off. But it would be nice if there were always fair maps somehow.

I would have to look up all of the maps going into the elections this year and compare them to other maps and how they have measured up in the past. Some may look gerrymandered just by their appearance of looking very wonky. Others, you’d have to look more into to see what might be wrong with it. The big thing to look out for is whether people will have to fight against each other by putting multiple incumbents in one district. Sometimes, this is impossible not to happen. And they may have to fight against their own party. In West Virginia, for instance, all three of their current Congresspeople are Republicans. There will be only two districts after this year so two of them will have to fight off in the primary.

When I think about gerrymandering, I think that if there is a song that would describe it, it would be the Ed Sheeran song Shape of You. I won’t share it this time, but probably will when I get to covering some of the House races this year. I can’t think of what else there is to cover in this blog post so I will end it here.

Politics: 2021 Election Results

I promised that I would have this post or another one ready by this month. I could have given myself more time by going to a later service which would have put Survivor’s posts on Thursday and delayed this blog’s post until all the way to the 24^th which would have been the first time that a Thursday would have been available this month for this blog. It would change things in the off chance that there is only one church service during Lent, but you’ll find out more then.

 

Anyways, let’s get to the actual important part of this post. I realize that I could have done a post after the primaries to better prepare you for the general elections, but that never happened and it is far too late for that now anyways. I didn’t even think of doing it until too late and wound up more focused on other things anyways.

 

What you probably heard from this election was that it was a huge red wave as they were only focused on the state of Virginia and not the two other states electing governors or the results of the Georgia senate race runoffs which seem like a lifetime ago even just the very next day after it. But I’ll start with Virginia before going to anything else.

 

The Virginia attorney general race did have incumbent Democrat Mark Herring in the race. That party actually had a primary by the voters. The Republican Party did not have a primary that way. It did get Jason Miyares elected in the general election, defeating Mark.

 

Meanwhile, the Virginia governor race was the one that made everyone lose their minds. I do have to wonder why this was seen as referendum on Biden. They did that in 2009 with the same state, made that governor’s election link to Obama. But in 2013, they didn’t mention what role Obama had with getting a Democrat elected governor there or how the Democrats win in 2017 reflected negatively on Trump.

 

This race proved once again that Republicans can win based on campaigns filled with lies. The Republican, Glenn Youngkin, rallied against such things a critical race theory, something that is only taught in law schools and is not being taught to minors in any state in this country. He also ran against Ralph Northam, even though his real opponent that he beat was Democratic Terry McAuliffe. Glenn also ran against a lot of already ended covid protocols and the state could wind up with a worse response to the pandemic than the good one it has now.

 

The California recall was kind of a laughable attempt at trying to change things. I’ll admit that Gavin Newsom could have wound up forcing the hands of Republicans because he did make a mistake by doing the dinner against his own covid protocols that let the recall move forward. But he easily defeated the recall with over 60% of the vote.

 

New Jersey’s governor race got kind of lost in the whole news coverage since the results were delayed. Incumbent governor, Democrat Phil Murphy, ran against Republican challenger, Jack Ciattarelli. Phil won reelection. This was actually a big deal since no Democratic governor of that state won reelection since 1977, no candidate of either party won after a president of their party won the previous year since 1985, and no Democrat did that since also in 1977. Indeed, we have yet to see a pandemic era governor lose reelection, although that is probably statistically unlikely to happen again in 2022. Indeed, we may see a record number of governors next year lose renomination to other people in the primaries.

 

There are lesser elections that aren’t something I’m keeping track of, although maybe they should be kept track of by other people. While people think that it was a red wave, I think that a lot of context is missing that would make that true or more true. Still, we might have to be a bit more cautious going into the 2022 gubernatorial races. Polls are saying that it might favor the Democrats, pending the outcome of several tossups. Indeed, the last time any Democrat lost reelection to a Republican in a gubernatorial race was in 2014. We’ll see what happens next year in the end.

Politics: Redistricting

There is a huge post that is long overdue for this blog that I was hoping to have done at some time this month, meaning today, but this isn’t happening. I haven’t done my post on the results of the presidential election from a year ago now that I feel that I have to do still. I also could have blogged instead about the results of the 2021 gubernatorial races with a few others in there as well that happened this year which I think is too soon to blog about. I can promise that one of those posts will appear as next month’s post. I don’t know if that will appear later in the month to accommodate my Survivor blog which is usually delayed to Thursdays during Advent but might not be for reasons that I’ll talk about in that blog. But it will appear on a Thursday as I know that one will be free.

Now since I have to do a brief blog post, I might as well cover the topic of redistricting, a once in a decade event that covers multiple areas of the US electorate. I might as well cover it now since if I don’t cover it soon, I’ll have to wait until it is more time appropriate again.

Due to the census, there are shifts in population and this affects many things. In this blog post, I will just be covering its role in the US House election. It is already known to affect the number of seats some states will have in Congress and some are going up and some are going down. The overall number of Congresspeople remains unchanged as always.

We won’t know the full affects of this change until later. And we always have to worry about the affects of gerrymandering. We do not know what all will change with it. And I wish that I could only blame the Republicans for gerrymandering, but, sadly, both sides do this and that’s quite a shame since neither party should and they should be equal districts. 

A lot more than just redistricting will be affecting the future when we get to the 2022 House races, but that is a different post. We have the sedition caucus, Republicans who voted in favor of impeachment, people of both parties who will have to face each other in primaries, all of the new seats, all of the seats going away, and tons of other things to look for as well. Plus, it is not the House that sorts out the new districts, but the state legislatures and whatever party could be in control of them. That’s why we want the best people in control all the time and especially when it is redistricting time. That’s all folks.

Politics: The Injustice Senators: 2021 Update

I hope that the next planned post of this blog will be talking about the results of the presidential election despite the fact that it would be nearly a year ago by now. I honestly don’t know how I’d adapt if I were able to blog about The Good Fight again despite the name of the blog being about it. I’ve blogged about politics in relations to elections here for quite some time. Now, I’m doing something that I hope gain popularity. First, I’m doing the first blog post on it. I’m also going to do a YouTube video on it. I plan to switch back and forth between them over time.

 

What do I mean by the injustice senators? Well, it all started in 2016 when Antonia Scalia died and one Mitch McConnell stated that the Republican’t Party gets to be a bunch of dicks by not holding a vote on Obama’s yet unnamed nominee to the Supreme Court since a presidential election was going on that year. It took him all of a few hours to make this claim.

 

Poor Merrick Garland got screwed royally because of this. The seat was held open for over a whole year to effectively bork his nomination. He was the most qualified person ever nominated for the Supreme Court. And what’s worse than voting down the most experienced person ever nominated for the Supreme Court? Not holding a fucking vote at all.

 

Republican’ts invented a new precedent, trying to claim that it was already there that the liberals did first. But that’s not the case at all. They cowered behind what they felt was a close time table so that they would have an out on not doing what they are supposed to as senators. What’s even worse is that Merrick is just one of many judges to never get hearings during the end of the Obama administration.

 

What Republican’ts did then was very short sighted. They probably knew this too. What if there were a vacancy during a presidential election year and a Republican’t was president? They’d want to fill the seat, right? Well, this article called it in August of 2020.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/3/1966183/-Would-Republicans-fill-a-Supreme-Court-vacancy-even-during-Trump-s-last-weeks-Of-course-they-would?detail=emaildkre

 

This leads to the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. This is something that I doubt that they never thought about in their minds. If Trump really did become president, surely she died during his term? We regain the Supreme Court. It won’t be too long that we’d be without it. We’ve had it since the 1970s and we would get it back during his term. Plus, then we don’t have to worry about flip flopping on this issue.

 

Well, if Republican’ts ever used their brains, they would have voted on Merrick and then not look like a bunch of hypocrites. But they don’t care about being hypocrites. That’s why within hours of Ginsburg’s death, Mitch McConnell threw out his own rules saying that a president could have an election year vacancy as long as the senate had the same party in control. This is why it was different, in his mind. Of course, he’d probably invent a third rule if a Democratic majority senate refused to hear the nomination of a Republican president.

 

This leads to the injustice senators. That’s what I’m calling the 41 Republican senators who all were against holding a hearing on Merrick Garland but had no issues voting for Amy Coney Barrett. I’m going to mention all of them by name, including an update as to if they are not in office anymore or if they are planning to leave office. This is why I plan to keep updating you about them over and over again.

 

They are Richard Shelby (retiring, 1-3-2023), David Perdue (voted out, 1-5-2021), Mike Crapo, Cory Gardner (voted out, 11-3-2020), Marco Rubio, John Boozman, Tom Cotton, Dan Sullivan, Lisa Murkowski, Jim Risch, Chuck Grassley, Joni Ernst, Pat Roberts (retired, 1-3-2021), Jerry Moran, Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul, Bill Cassidy, Roger Wicker, Roy Blunt (retiring, 1-3-2023), Steve Daines, Deb Fischer, Ben Sasse, Thom Tillis, Richard Burr (retiring, 1-3-2023), John Hoeven, Rob Portman (retiring, 1-3-2023), James Lankford, Jim Inhofe (retiring, 1-3-2027), Pat Tommey (retiring, 1-3-2023), Lindsey Graham, Tim Scott, John Thune, Mike Rounds, John Cornyn, Lamar Alexander (retired, 1-3-2021), Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Shelley Moore Capito, Ron Johnson, Mike Enzi (retired, 1-3-2021), and John Barrasso.

 

You might be wondering if they are all of the Republicans from 2016 that were still in office as of 2020. Well, it is all but one of them. You see, Susan Collins is different for one reason: she was in favor of holding hearings on Merrick Garland. It might have been because she knew that she would never have to live up to that promise and she was taking one of her many principled stands that mean nothing in the end. I don’t think that her vote against Barrett means a damn thing. And you are more than free to want her out of office.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/19/1978872/-Susan-Collins-says-next-President-should-replace-RBG?utm_campaign=trending

 

Now there are issues with the courts and there have been for quite some time. A majority of the justices have been appointed by people who didn’t originally win the popular vote. (It is worth noting that both of Bush’s justices were appointed after he won reelection, which he did with the popular vote.) It is horrifying that 2016, 2018, and 2020 all had the Supreme Court on the ballot when it never was any time before 1992. Let’s hope that it’s a long while before this happens again. We don’t know the full story of what’s going on with the courts.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/21/1979460/-Breaking-Sen-Whitehouse-claims-that-an-unknown-organization-is-behind-GOP-SCOTUS-Strategy?utm_campaign=trending

 

What we do know is the blatant hypocrisy of the Republican’t Party. They threw out their own rules when they no longer benefitted from it. They will always do this. And I refuse to believe that the Democrats also flipped on the issue of election year vacancies to the Supreme Court when they only wanted to play by the same rules as the other party. Why should they just get to invent rules and then throw out those same rules? But there is a big difference. Two of them, actually. One is that the election was even closer in 2020. The other is that the majority of the court was not going to change this time. It would remain in Republican’t hands.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/24/1980325/-Vulnerable-Republicans-don-t-want-to-talk-about-why-the-Supreme-court-in-2020-isn-t-the-same-as-2016?detail=emaildkre

 

Democrats had a lot that they could do, but not much of it was something that would work with them in the minority of the senate. Republican’ts were worried that they would lose the senate, the presidency, or, in the case that happened, both. And if it were a non incumbent senator who had died during this time frame (in some states, but not all), their seat wouldn’t have had one of their special elections to replace it until the next time they were up. These links all explain what all Democrats both did and could do. I don’t know what all worked.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/25/1980620/-To-honor-RBG-Democrats-have-to-do-everything-in-their-power-to-preserve-her-seat

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/5/1983715/-Senate-Democrats-need-to-play-the-same-hardball-game-on-the-Supreme-Court-McConnell-would?detail=emaildkre

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/6/1984002/-Senate-Democrats-have-nothing-to-lose-by-making-this-Supreme-Court-nomination-war?detail=emaildkre

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/7/1984405/-Schumer-and-Judiciary-Democrats-need-a-battle-plan-on-Supreme-Court-and-need-it-now?detail=emaildkre

 

The disgust of the second Supreme Court justice dying in office which was then being politicized by taking a person’s death and using it for personal gain speaks to the overall lack of soul that we often see in the Republican’t Party. Here are two links about this.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/25/1980584/-Republican-ad-blitz-gaslights-the-public-about-what-Ruth-Bader-Ginsburg-wanted?detail=emaildkre

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/27/1981156/-Republican-group-hawking-Notorious-A-C-B-shirts-is-tasteless-but-the-real-problem-is-much-bigger?detail=emaildkre

 

While hardly the worst of the current justices, there will always be too much controversy in her rise to the court. Barrett is the most inexperienced person confirmed to the Supreme Court since Clarence Thomas, which is horrifying as he is the most senior justice. She has controversial views behind just how she unfairly got a seat she never should have had.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/26/1980903/-Why-Trump-s-expected-Supreme-Court-nominee-believes-all-Civil-Rights-legislation-is-illegitimate?detail=emaildkre

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/15/1986719/-Amy-Coney-Barrett-refused-to-say-if-state-sanctioned-kidnapping-at-the-border-is-wrong?detail=emaildkre

 

Of course, there’s a whole lot of issues with her a bit unrelated to her. She might have been the reason for the White House outbreak of coronavirus. She had it and could have given it to Trump who could have easily died. And as horrible as he’s been after the election, I’m glad that he didn’t die because then he wouldn’t have known the country’s rejection of him.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/3/1983170/-Amy-C-Barrett-Had-CV-19-Did-She-Disclose-This-to-Trump-To-Senators-If-Not-Is-It-Disqualifying

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/amy-coney-barretts-supreme-court-nomination-ceremony-seems-to-tick-all-the-boxes-for-a-coronavirus-superspreading-event/ar-BB19Lxgl?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/5/1983673/-McConnell-says-shut-Senate-down-for-COVID-19-relief-bill-but-move-ahead-on-superspreader-Barrett?detail=emaildkre

 

With her ascending to the Supreme Court, she has joined other controversial justices that Trump had appointed, although only Kavanaugh had to face one of his own making. And now we have to worry about voting rights. We’ll see how over time.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/27/1989984/-Kavanaugh-Barrett-put-voting-rights-on-the-ballot-next-week?detail=emaildkre

 

Then we get to the idea of packing the court by adding seats. Republicant’s do whatever they can to pack the court and then have the audacity to complain that Democrats might want to do the same thing. Why is it okay for Republican’ts to pack the court? I think that it isn’t, but by now, the Republican’ts are daring the Democrats to respond in kind and Republican’ts will have no one to blame for this but themselves.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/17/1987265/-There-s-nothing-sacred-about-nine-Supreme-Court-seats-and-nothing-original-about-that-number?detail=emaildkreicymi

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/2/5/2014258/-Dick-Durbin-Democrats-own-Tom-Cotton-on-his-court-expansion-gotcha-trick?detail=emaildkre

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ted-cruz-says-republicans-didnt-try-to-rig-the-game-by-changing-the-supreme-court-hes-ignoring-2016/ar-BB1fWL9e

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/4/9/2025125/-Republicans-packed-the-Supreme-Court-Biden-is-creating-a-commission-to-study-the-problem?pm_source=story_sidebar&pm_medium=web&pm_campaign=most-shared

 

Something that is worth mentioning is that when Merrick Garland was nominated to be the attorney general of this country, people had to vote for him and there were 19 injustice senators who did vote for Merrick Garland: Roy Blunt, Richard Burr, Shelley Moore Capito, Bill Cassidy, John Cornyn, Joni Ernst, Lindsey Graham, Charles Grassley, Jim Inhofe, Ron Johnson, James Lankford, Mitch McConnell, Jerry Moran, Lisa Murkowski, Rob Portman, Mike Rounds, John Thune, and Thom Tillis. Merrick Garland can now handle criminal cases, something that no one on the Supreme Court ever does anymore. He could be the reason why Trump goes to jail, if we don’t count Trump himself. Only one Republican who wasn’t an injustice senator voted in favor of Merrick for attorney general. This sadly speaks to a testament as to what the party might wind up becoming in the future.

 

I’m mentioning the injustice senators in order for people to know who they are. Don’t vote for them. Always vote for the Democrat running against them. Even consider voting against those who run in primaries against these Republican’ts if you can without switching parties or you don’t have to register in your state as it is an open primary. I want all of them out of office which is why I’ll keep posting about them. I imagine that most of them will retire. But we need them all gone no matter what. After all, they show that they have no principles when it comes to following their own rules, hence showing an injustice.

Politics: The Complete Sedition Caucus

I am not the person who can be credited with coming up with this term. Also note that sedition is just a term used to describe these 147 people, but they did not commit sedition. It is still a term that is used and is the most widely accepted. Some call them instead the treason caucus. I prefer the term sedition even if those two words mean the same thing.

Who are these people and how are they infamous? Well, let’s get to why they are important. On the day of the storming of the capitol, there were people who were planning to vote against the certification of the election. They may not have realized what they were doing. After all, it would not have been Trump who would have become president if they succeeded, which they weren’t going to do while having a minority in the House. It would have been the Speaker of the House, namely Nancy Pelosi, who would have become president as she was next in line that was not part of the elected tickets. This is why there is a perfect conspiracy theory of her being the one responsible for the riot of January 6^th that only first was spread months after. As usual, we get the perfect conspiracy theory from conservatives far too late for it to make sense anymore.

Now, I’m going to mention all of them by name. All are Republicans. First, I will mention those who are serving in the House. Then, I’ll mention the senators. An asterisk next to their name means that they were doing their job for only three days when they made this vote. Edit: This was not accurate when I originally posted it, but I will now have all of the asterisks that belong once you are seeing this. I took out one that was there in error. It is worth noting that not all new House members are in this and never are all of the new Senate members either.

Alabama’s Congressmen: Robert Aderholt, Mo Brooks, Jerry Carl *, Barry Moore *, Gary Palmer, and Mike Rogers. Arizona’s Congress people: Andy Biggs, Paul Gosar, Debbie Lesko, and David Schweikert. Arkansas Congressman Rick Crawford is one.

California’s Congressmen: Ken Calvert, Mike Garcia, Darrell Issa *, Doug LaMalfa, Kevin McCarthy, Devin Nunes, and Jay Obernolte *. Colorado’s Congress people: Lauren Boebert * and Doug Lamborn. Florida’s Congress people: Kat Cammack *, Mario Diaz-Balart, Byron Donalds *, Neal Dunn, Scott Franklin *, Matt Gaetz, Carlos Gimenez *, Brian Mast, Bill Posey, John Rutherford, Greg Steube, and Daniel Webster.

Georgia’s Congress people: Rick Allen, Buddy Carter, Andrew Clyde *, Marjorie Taylor Greene *, Jody Hice, and Barry Loudermilk. Idaho’s Congressman Russ Fulcher is one. Illinois’s Congress people: Mike Bost and Mary Miller *.

Indiana’s Congress people: Jim Baird, Jim Banks, Greg Pence (brother of Mike Pence), and Jackie Walorski. Kansas’s Congress people: Ron Estes, Jacob LaTurner *, and Tracey Mann *. Kentucky’s Congressman Harold Rogers is one.

Louisiana’s Congressmen: Garret Graves, Clay Higgins, Mike Johnson, and Steve Scalise. Maryland’s Congressman Andy Harris is one. Michigan’s Congress people: Jack Bergman, Lisa McClain *, and Tim Walberg.

Minnesota’s Congress people: Michelle Fischbach * and Jim Hagedorn. Mississippi’s Congressmen: Michael Guest, Trent Kelly, and Steven Palazzo. Missouri’s Congress people: Sam Graves, Vicky Hartzler, Billy Long, Blaine Luetkemeyer, and Jason Smith.

Montana’s Congressman Matt Rosendale * is one and Nebraska’s Congressman Adrian Smith is another. North Carolina’s Congress people: Dan Bishop, Ted Budd, Madison Cawthorn *, Virginia Foxx, Richard Hudson, Gregory F Murphy, and David Rouzer.

New Jersey’s Congressman Jeff Van Drew is one and New Mexico’s Congresswoman Yvette Herrell * is another. New York’s Congress people: Chris Jacobs, Nicole Malliotakis *, Elise Stefanik, and Lee Zeldin. Ohio’s Congressmen are Steve Chabot, Warren Davidson, Bob Gibbs, Bill Johnson, and Jim Jordan. Oklahoma’s Congress people are Stephanie Bice *, Tom Cole, Kevin Hern, Frank Lucas, and Markwayne Mullin.

Oregon’s Congressman Cliff Bentz * is one. Pennsylvania’s Congressmen: John Joyce, Fred Keller, Mike Kelly, Daniel Meuser, Scott Perry, Guy Reschenthaler, Lloyd Smucker, and Glenn Thompson. South Carolina’s Congressmen: Jeff Duncan, Ralph Norman, Tom Rice, William Timmons, and Joe Wilson.

Tennessee’s Congress people: Tim Burchett, Scott DesJarlais, Chuck Fleischmann, Mark E Green, Diana Harshbarger *, David Kustoff, and John Rose. Texas’s Congress people: Jodey Arrington, Brian Babin, Michael C Burgess, John R Carter, Michael Cloud, Pat Fallon *, Louie Gohmert, Lance Gooden, Ronny Jackson *, Troy Nehls *, August Pfluger *, Pete Sessions *, Beth Van Duyne *, Randy Weber, Roger Williams, and the late Ron Wright.

Utah’s Congressmen: Burgess Owens * and Chris Stewart. Virginia’s Congress people: Ben Cline, Bob Good *, Morgan Griffith, and Robert J Wittman. West Virginia’s Congress people: Carol Miller and Alexander Mooney. Finally, we have Wisconsin’s Congressmen: Scott L Fitzgerald * and Tom Tiffany.

The senators are class one senators Ted Cruz of Texas, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi, and Rick Scott of Florida, the class two senators of Cynthia Lummis * of Wyoming, Roger Marshall * of Kansas, and Tommy Tuberville * of Alabama, and the class three senator of John Kennedy of Louisiana.. 

There is a scandal right now with one of the Congressmen mentioned, Matt Gaetz. LegalEagle did a video on him and his alleged crimes. We’ll see if this gets him out of office or if they won’t care about this in the end.

LegalEagle’s video on Matt Gaetz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpDIJHWg0Pw

Now it should be noted that there were plenty of people who didn’t vote to overturn the election for president. Most of the Republican senate was that way as was nearly half the Republican House. While there was a link to a planned 12 then 13 people in the senate total who were going to vote against it, a good chunk of them didn’t after the storming.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/05/really-bad-day-dirty-dozen/

(Does not include the planned Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, James Lankford of North Dakota, Steve Daines of Montana, Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, Mike Braun of Indiana, and Kelly Loeffler of Georgia) 

It is also worth noting that relating to the vote at hand, there were 126 people on record as supporting the Supreme Court case of Texas versus Pennsylvania which violates at least one Amendment if not two. I’d have to check the list of this again just to see who here is not among those who voted against the certification of the presidential election results because maybe they saw the light. Also, one of the points regarding this mess that I just now thought of is that they were only voting against the results of just one of the elections even though plenty all took place at once. What would make the presidential race invalid, but not any of the others?

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/12/27/2001412/-A-breakdown-of-all-126-seditious-Republicans-who-signed-on-for-a-coup-d-tat?detail=emaildkre

(Includes, among others, Louisiana Congressmen Mike Johnson, Steve Scalise, Ralph Abraham, Clay Higgins, Indiana Congressmen Trey Hollingsworth, James R. Baird, James Banks, Arizona Congressmen Debbie Lesko, Andy Biggs, Missouri Congressmen Sam Graves, Vicky Hartzler, Blaine Luetkemeyer, Jason Smith, Ann Wagner) 

Of course, while the people who voted against the certifications of the results of the presidential election did not commit sedition, those who stormed the capitol did. Some of them are or were elected Republicans. I read that it might be over 50, but am unsure of who all did it. I would need to check to see who all was at the rally Trump did and then marched to the capitol like he wanted them to. I have the link to at least one of the politicians who was responsible for them. If you do not mind supporting a Republican super pac, then donate to Run for Something which seeks to get rid of all of these people from office. Also donate to the Democratic pac Operation 147. 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/1/8/2005864/-West-Virginia-Republican-lawmaker-arrested-for-his-role-in-storming-the-Capitol?detail=emaildkre

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/2/16/2016369/-57-elected-Republicans-were-part-of-the-Jan-6-rally-and-riot-Thousands-want-to-run-against-them?detail=emaildkre

There isn’t much else to talk about in this post. It should be remembered that there were plenty of Republicans who didn’t vote for sedition. Not even Trump poodle Lindsey Graham voted against certifying the election results. Now I need to get caught up on this blog by doing a post on the results of the presidential election that has long been delayed now. There are a lot of the really long blog posts that I need to do for different blogs sometime when I have the chance. And I’m running out of my self imposed deadlines to do it by.