Extra Bonus Quote of the Day

January 6, 2021 at 9:08 am EST By Taegan Goddard 44 Comments

"Buckle up!"

-- Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), on Twitter, ahead of a joint session of Congress meeting to ratify Joe Biden's victory in the presidential election.

You have willingly chosen to ignore your oath of office and through your rhetoric and your actions have encouraged the anarchists who have taken over our house of Congress and threatened our members of Congress. You are complicit. If blood is shed, that blood is on your hands. You have disgraced your office and should resign.

The National Association of Manufacturers, one of the most influential business groups in the US, called on Vice President Mike Pence Wednesday to consider removing President Trump from office.

The statement from NAM, the nation's largest manufacturing association, marks perhaps the strongest political statement by a major business group in modern history.

Pence "should seriously consider working with the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment to preserve democracy," NAM CEO Jay Timmons said in a statement.

Actually the whole sorry mess has been so entirely predictable, up to the point inevitability.

Pat Toomy had a damn good speech as to why Congress does not select determine which electoral votes to count.

I hope they print Romney's speech for Arizona.  Romney said to Hawley, 'The best way we can show respect to the voters that are upset is by telling them the truth. That's the burden, that's the duty of leadership.'

Graham's wasn't too bad either.  'Vice President Pence, what they are asking you to do, you won't because you can't.'  & 'Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are the lawfully elected and wil become the President & Vice President of the United States on January the 20th'.

White House social secretary Rickie Niceta has resigned, effective immediately, CNN reports.

White House deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews also resigned, Fox News reports.

A source close to President Trump tells the New York Times that more resignations are expected in the next 24 hours.

Section 230 is a piece of Internet legislation in the United States, passed into law as part of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) of 1996 (a common name for Title V of the Telecommunications Act of 1996), formally codified as Section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934 at 47 U.S.C. § 230.[a] Section 230 generally provides immunity for website publishers from third-party content. At its core, Section 230(c)(1) provides immunity from liability for providers and users of an "interactive computer service" who publish information provided by third-party users:

Some top remaining administration officials are preparing to resist any unlawful or dangerous orders in the closing days of Trump's presidency, senior administration officials with direct knowledge of the sensitive conversations tell Axios.

Why it matters: After Trump incited protesters to storm the Capitol on Wednesday, there's a near universal view among top officials that he is unfit and unhinged, these sources said.

On another subject

Vice President Mike Pence doesn't support removing President Trump from office via the 25th Amendment despite the growing bipartisan chorus for a last-minute change at the very top of the American government, Business Insider reports.

Said a Republican close to Pence: "Not happening."

And, Nixon was reminded that if impeached and removed he loses post-presidential perks, such as secret service protection, resignation became more attractive.  Paying for his own security may tip the grifter-in-chief.

"Donald Trump's most loyal supporters feel angry and betrayed over the Thursday video in which the president tried to distance himself from a pro-Trump riot in Congress, despite the president's advisers assuring him he had not alienated too many of his fans," the Daily Beast reports.

"Shortly after his White House video--in which a scripted President Trump acknowledged that a transition to a `new' administration was underway, but stopped short of even admitting that he indeed lost fairly to his 2020 Democratic opponent--posted online, Trump started having second thoughts. Throughout the evening, the outgoing, increasingly authoritarian leader of the free world quizzed close advisers and White House officials about if he did the right thing, and if the reception from the public, the media, and his supporters was `good.' ... He asked if his supporters felt let down.