- Since the riots at the U.S. Capitol on 1/6/2021, not a day has gone by where at least a few Dems and fervent anti-Trumpers haven't shrieked about how Republicans will never again accept election results if they lose.
But when three-term Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) looks to have lost re-election this cycle to Republican challenger Dave McCormick, yet refuses to concede? Suddenly those concerns of "election denial" have disappeared faster than set of rims in the parking lot of a hip hop concert.
In at least four counties — Bucks, Philadelphia, Centre and Montgomery — local election officials are acting in open defiance of a ruling from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that arrived weeks before the election. The court found that mail ballots that are missing the date on the outer envelope, or have the wrong date, cannot be counted for this election.
The Bucks County election commission felt differently.
“It is a pretty stupid thing to not count someone’s vote simply because they didn’t date an envelope for a ballot,” said Robert Harvie Jr., the chairman of the board and a Democrat, during a meeting on Tuesday where the board voted 2-1 to count 405 ballots with date errors on the envelope. He added that election officials know when ballots were printed for voters, making the outer envelope date requirement meaningless.
“The law needs to be changed,” Mr. Harvie said.
Undermining democracy for we, not for ye.
Also, one official in particular determined that if the law needs to ne changed, just go ahead and ignore what's currently on the books.
Bucks County commissioner Diane Ellis-Marseglia infamously contended, “I think we all know that precedent by a court doesn’t matter anymore in this country, and people violate laws any time they want.”
As a reminder, the woman who declared “people violate laws any time they want” serves on the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency. I guess she was brought on for her expertise in how criminals justify their lawbreaking.
Any prog from here forward who cites January 6 as a direct attack on our democracy but willingly ignores what's occurring in the Keystone state should be mercilessly mocked and ridiculed.
- Sure, Kamala Harris losing the 2024 presidential election was a good thing for America. But we conservatives ought be thanking her for more than merely being a terrible candidate so as to spare us from her occupying the Oval Office the next four years.
Gallup finds that support for a handgun ban is once again near its record low, with just 20% backing a handgun ban.
— Kostas Moros (@MorosKostas) November 19, 2024
Kamala's phony pandering probably shoved the Overton window in our direction a little bit. Thanks Kamala! pic.twitter.com/ihMMdp8mkk
Thank you for your 2A advocacy, Madame Vice President!
- Say, remember how for the past four years many Democrat U.S. Senators advocated getting rid of the legislative filibuster so as to implement a vast array of radical far left policy? Anyone with half a brain knew then that it wasn't exactly a principled stance, rather an attempted power grab. Soon-to-be Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer pretty much confirmed that after the latest election cycle.
“To my Republican colleagues, I offer a word of caution in good faith: Take care not to misread the will of the people, and do not abandon the need for bipartisanship. After winning an election, the temptation may be to go to the extreme. We’ve seen that happen over the decades, and it has consistently backfired on the party in power. So, instead of going to the extremes, I remind my colleagues that this body is most effective when it’s bipartisan. If we want the next four years in the Senate to be as productive as the last four, the only way that will happen is through bipartisan cooperation.”
Translation: Sorry for all that sabre rattling on that filibuster thingy. We didn't really mean it. Pinky swear.
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