Bloomberg: Republican Senators Marco Rubio and Mitt Romney joined mounting calls for the

[still_one]

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GSA to ascertain Biden as the president-elect, warning that extended delays in the formal transition of power put the nation’s security at risk

This was reported on Morning Joe this morning

[honest.abe]

1. This GSA thing is a political ploy to delay things.

There is more than enough voting data showing Biden is the clear winner. This is nothing like 2000. That election was decided by a few hundred votes in a single state. We are talking about tens of thousands of votes leads in multiple states that has decided this election. If this makes it to any court with an unbiased judge, she will be forced to make the call.

[still_one]

4. +++

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

32. The GSA head doesn't want to go against the Trump regime's party line

Which is that the election is still in doubt. I believe that she wants to keep her job.

[PatrickforO]

41. Not for long, thankfully. January 20 at the outside. Then out on her butt with a pink slip.

And, maybe with any luck, there will be eventual charges, a trial, and prison time.

[honest.abe]

45. Then the Biden team must sue to get a judge to instruct her to do her job.

There is no legitimate reason for her to not sign off on this.

[lagomorph777]

47. Saw a headline on CNN, that Biden is preparing legal action. Likely that's what they meant.

[honest.abe]

48. Yep. I think that is a very good idea and should resolve the matter.

[Skittles]

57. it's pandering to Trump Humpers

at the expense of AMERICA

[spanone]

2. republicans no longer care about national security

they only care about trump

nothing else

[mucifer]

3. They don't care about trump. Just money and power

[magicarpet]

7. The Rethugs want that voting base preserved, protected, and fully intact,...

... for future elections down the road.

[jaxexpat]

46. Maybe just a bit more than that.

It's becoming all too clear that there are powerful republicans who want the governing structure changed, molded if you will, to ensure their reign. Denying the validity of normal behavior validates their claim as the sole, ultimate and undeniable rulers of the country. We are actually at that point NOW. Beyond speculation about what they can or want to do. It is time to recognize exactly what they're doing.
A sobering acknowledgement of what our eyes are seeing can lead to no other conclusion but that they are implementing their plot to take over the country.

Sorry gentle, hopeful, fellow citizens but THIS is what the second amendment was for: To ensure there was a well regulated militia to maintain the constitutional government against usurpers. I just hope our gamble, an aberration to the constitution, to maintain such a huge standing army doesn't backfire. We'll know we've finally lost when armored checkpoints become common.

War on terror my ass. It was always a war against the ability of common people to self govern. Incremental domination of the details of people's basic democratic rights. Voting right requirements: matching signatures, proof of place of residence, phot ID, paperless/proof-less balloting. Standing in line, hardly any voter would have been surprised if some un-credentialed RW nut job were allowed to challenge their right to vote. I know I wasn't the only one who had mentally prepared my outraged retort.

[obamanut2012]

5. Interesting Rubio said this

I called his office twice to tell him to congratulate Biden. I doubt that's why he said it, of course, but I am wondering what heat he's getting, and from who.

[BigmanPigman]

8. I'm wondering what's in it for him.

[obamanut2012]

16. Yup

[Best_man23]

18. 2022 is what

Senator (Cheap as an) AR-15 is up for re-election this next cycle, and he needs to demonstrate sufficient bootlicking loyalty to tRump to satisfy the Y'all Qaeda.

[robbob]

22. I'm confused?

Or maybe you are? The OP says Rubio is joining Romney taking a stand AGAINST tRump. I hate the little weasel as much as anyone, but I’ll give him props this one time...

[Amishman]

25. setting himself up for the party's post Trump pivot

[Hortensis]

43. Has to be at least a big factor. He's seemingly banking on a

post-Trump retrenching by conservatives uneasy about where the crazy right has been taking them. Not-so-amusing considering that in 2015-16 he and The Anointed One (Cruz) were considered the most extreme candidates in a what had become a hard-core to far-right Republican field.

[Zoonart]

31. He wants to retain some semblance of political career after this is over.

He probably wants to run for president.

[still_one]

12. This is what was reported on Morning Joe this morning

[JI7]

13. I think he is playing both sides. He doesn't want to be too associated with the crazy

but he also doesn't want to lose support for any possible future campaigns.

[Eid Ma Clack Shaw]

14. Let's call it like it is

Rubio is a complete fucking coward. As snivelling a twerp as has ever been elected to the United States Senate.

[Eyeball_Kid]

53. Marco licks his finger to find out which why the wind is blowing.

But he inserts his finger into one of his favorite orifices instead.

[obamanut2012]

17. This is my SO's opinion, too

And, I tend to agree with it. It is just surprising Marco didn't wait for 15 other Senators to say it first.

[chriscan64]

28. I agree, he is trying to thread the needle.

He wants to retain the rabid base while adding a few votes from disaffected republicans and independents who voted against the Trump craziness. He will find out that the base will see his one foot on the other side of the fence as a total betrayal, and he will join the legion of the purged.

[Pacifist Patriot]

49. Must have been my two calls then.

[obamanut2012]

51. hahahaha

Between us, it was our four calls!

[ancianita]

50. You might like an analysis of Rubio from the Nov 2 New Yorker, in which his new ideas about

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the party and "social capitalism" are examined. He's quoted, so I think we'd better take a look at what Rubio and Romney have planned for the party.

Key camps examined in the article refer to camps of influence about what Republicans will be without their "donald platform."

... there are three competing predictions about the future of the Party over the coming years. Let’s call them the Remnant, Restoration, and Reversal scenarios

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/02/the-republican-identity-crisis-after-trump

The gist of the 11 pg article starts with the topic sentence and paragraph,
"

Donald Trump is far too bizarre to be precisely replicable as a model for the generic Republican of the future. That raises the question of where the Republican Party will go after he leaves office. The jockeying for the 2024 Republican nomination is already well under way. Did Trump’s ascension represent a significant change in the Party’s orientation, and, if so, will the change be temporary or lasting?

Our entire approach toward 2024 should be "know thy enemy." Because the Republican Party without Trump might look as if it's got a whole new playbook, but my bet is that he will call in ideas, and they will hybridize into something that used to be our party. Because bottom line they need to expand their base if they can't win as a minority in key govt branches.

[Lonestarblue]

6. Trump sycophants need to be hauled before the House for obstruction.

All of this needs to be used against Republicans in the Georgia runoffs. They obviously care nothing for democracy. They don’t even want to govern. All they want to do is win and then reward their wealthy donors with tax cuts.

[Ford_Prefect]

30. It wasn't about Democracy. It was always about winning and holding power.

The GOP at any evel has only one goal and no moral center at all. Whatever grants them the most power to keep us down is the goal.

When the Tea Party rose up it was the end of the Conservative movement. They have no relevance, and no defensible morality because their logical outcome is power for its own sake: Trumpism.

[Sherman A1]

9. WOW

Little Marco joined the call for the GSA to do so. Now, there is a surprise.

[soothsayer]

10. Seriously

[Princess Turandot]

11. Rubio's comment:

Link to tweet

[M_Demo_M]

19. Based on the wording of this tweet

I'd say he's trying to have it both ways. Trying to seem reasonable without ticking off the MagaPooPoos

[RVN VET71]

29. Wimpy Rubio playing both sides of the street

I guess he's got a Senate seat for life, but it's clearly a waste of space. There is no principal this man will not compromise of desert, but if that's what the voters in Florida want -- and it pretty much has been their story for decades -- that's what they'll get.

[Ligyron]

40. Well, the people in his district anyway, or rather a majority of them.

[RVN VET71]

58. Nah. He's a Senator so the entire state of Florida is on the hook here.

(My God, Florida! Rubio and Scott are your Senators! What in the holy hell is wrong with you people?)

(And Ron DeSantis is the guy who stole the Governor's seat. The mind is beyond the boggle point.)

[wolfie001]

15. He still remembers:

"Little Mario"...........Ha ha!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

20. What do you get when you add a Romney and a Rubio?

Answer: Three quarters of a spine.

[robbob]

23. You're being generous...

[Tommy_Carcetti]

27. Romney's impeachment trial vote gave him 1/2 a spine.

Marco occasionally says the right thing but never follows through on it, so that is at the very most 1/4 spine.

Susan Collins hasn’t found the remaining 1/4 of the collective spine just yet, but has expressed her worry and concern that it all hasn’t fallen into place just yet, so that’s that.

[Raster]

26. +10

[Autumn]

24. First two rats jumping ship. Tough shit, there no where to go.

[BumRushDaShow]

33. Rubio?

[Roland99]

34. That's gotta sting a little

Hehe

[Proud Liberal Dem]

35. I guess that they're just not seeing the supposedly massive evidence of voter fraud

that Trump or McConnell are. Glad to see that not all Republicans are jumping on this political suicide pact.

[obamanut2012]

37. McConnell doesn't see it, either

He wants to stay in charge of the Senate. That's the only reason he is doing this.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

38. I'm not convinced he's a true believer

but he's enabling the Orange Tyrant's delusions, so IMHO he's just as bad.

[LiberalArkie]

36. Romney has known that the Republican future is a moderate party and not a bat-shit crazy party

of Trump/Putin. Maybe Rubio is moving to that wing of the party.

Much like what happened with the Rockefeller - Goldwater split.

[vlyons]

39. This is just Trump being his usual sour-puss piss-ant sore loser self.

He has to hurt everybody, because his ego has been wounded. Has to lash out and make us all know that he's still the boss. Well Donny, here's a clue -- a little ego reduction is good for the soul. Good for my soul; good for his soul; good for everyone.

It would be so much easier for him and for us if he just bowed out gracefully and let go. This my friends is a Buddhist lesson in how attachment and craving are the roots of suffering.

[Ligyron]

42. Somebody on team traitor figured out a delay is good for one reason if nothing else.

That would be: the longer the resources are delayed. the harder it makes it for Joe and Kamala's transition and the worse they'll look right out of the box. RW press will scream incompetence never mentioning the delay in them getting those much needed resources.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

55. Classic GOP tactic: obstruct, obstruct, obstruct, then

denounce those you obstructed for getting nothing done.

[Texin]

44. It's a stall to gum up the works of Biden's transition teams.

It's also a sop by lickspittles to mollycoddle and fluff Hair Fuhrer.

[Eyeball_Kid]

52. Murphy is following orders.

She is not allowed to think for herself. That's above her pay grade, according to Trump. So we'll have to watch as a Trump lackey gets pummeled by the press and she gets predictably roasted and hung up to dry. ETTD.

[peggysue2]

54. Rubio is trying to cover his ass for 2022

The Lincoln Project has already given Rubio a shoutout that he's on their hit list, come hell or high-water. Romney showed half a spine during the impeachment vote and has congratulated Biden on his presidential win.

Profiles in Courage!

[Cha]

56. I'm shocked! TY, still_one!