Slate "It Was a Good Day for Democracy"

[NRaleighLiberal]

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/11/trump-gsa-murphy-approves-biden-transition-funds-michigan.html

Monday was a good day for democracy. First, Michigan’s board of canvassers voted 3-0 with one abstention to certify president-elect Joe Biden’s more than 150,000-vote victory in the crucial swing state. While this should have been a routine ministerial matter of rubber-stamping the state’s vote totals, President Donald Trump had managed to turn it into a high-stakes drama; his pressure campaign had aimed to compel local officials to delay certifying and ultimately overturn Michigan’s election results.

That effort, one of the Trump campaign’s final gasps to usurp an election he lost by 74 Electoral College votes and more than 6 million votes nationally, has clearly failed.

The bigger denouement moment, though, came later on Monday, when administrator of the General Services Administration Emily W. Murphy said she would be making transition resources available to the president-elect and his team, after more than two weeks of holding out. The GSA’s release of more than $7 million in funds came 16 days after every major media outlet called the election for Biden and followed a string of calls from Republican senators to make the money available.

The lack of transition process has meant that Biden’s team has not gotten access to top-level intelligence and has thus far been unable to cooperate with current executive branch officials to prepare to manage the winter’s devastating spike in positive COVID-19 cases. On Monday, top House and Senate Democrats said that Murphy’s decision to withhold “ascertainment” that Biden would be the next president threatened national security.

Her statement releasing funds was ultimately grudging and focused more on her personal situation than on the country’s. She noted that she has faced “thousands of threats,” including to her “pets,” over her unprecedented decision to withhold transition funds.

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Perhaps in other important signs that the world is moving on from Trump’s years in charge, Biden named key Cabinet nominees, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein announced she was abdicating her perch as the Democrats’ top figure on the Senate Judiciary Committee. The 87-year-old senator’s genteel posture toward her opponents last month put her suitability as a party leader facing ruthless Republican opposition in extreme doubt.

Anyway, it was a good day.

[marybourg]

1. The Oxford/AstraZeneca announcement sweetened

things, too. Best day in a coupla’ weeks. Hope for more to come!

[Demovictory9]

2. k&r

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. Today I yelled less.

[Cha]

4. I'll Say! TY! Loser trump is fighting a Landslide.. Landslide WON!

That effort, one of the Trump campaign’s final gasps to usurp an election he lost by 74 Electoral College votes and more than 6 million votes nationally, has clearly failed.

[Cha]

5. Yeah, the Transfer of Funds to PE Biden

was all about poor little emily's horrible time Not our Country's.

She's FULL OF SHITE.