Oh Y’all, oh. oh. oh.

Louie has sued Vice President Mike Pence. In court. Where lawyers hang out. No kidding.

This is all about the Vice President’s ceremonial role on January 6th, consisting of having the Congress count states’ electoral votes and finalize Joe Biden as the winner of the election.

But the Republican lawsuit, which was filed against Pence in his official capacity as vice president, asks a federal judge in Texas to strike down the law as unconstitutional. The GOP plaintiffs go further: They ask the court to grant Pence the authority on Jan. 6 to effectively overturn Trump’s defeat in key battleground states.

Now, not even getting into the constitutionality of this, think about what happens next – if this is the new law, then one party has the power to overturn every election from now to eternity because they’ll just keep appointing themselves after the election.

But, if you want to get into the constitutionality, we can do that.  I’m pretty sure that the constitution does not allow the vice president to overturn an election.  Pretty damn sure.

Thanks to Kyle for the heads up.

Glen arrived in Georgia with two House Mothers who will keep things safe and do the cooking.  They will be stationed in Savannah and are working in conjunction with the Georgia Democratic Party. The kids will start canvassing today.

Making lasagna last night.

Here are some of the kids checking in and getting their official “uniform.”

They have promised an update tonight.

This kinda makes you wonder if Trump seriously doubts he’s gonna be inaugurated at the regular date and time.

It used to be that the reservation form for the Trump Hotel in DeeCee looked like this, with the day surrounding the inauguration blanked out:

But over the weekend, it changed to this:  Click here to see the big one.

It opened up. Rooms around the inauguration are still top dollar, but look at the prices around the 6th when Trump is planning his “rally.”

Now I know that this is about as accurate as reading tea leaves, but ya gotta wonder if trying to disrupt congress certifying the election is just another scam to fill his pockets and that he knows he’s not going to be president.

The NY Times is reporting that Trump just signed the pandemic relief bill with funding for the federal government through September ’21.  To be continued.

So, let’s bring back an oldie. Fun With Guns.

There’s some rules: (1) the shooter or the victim has to be doing something stoopid, this is often, more than you would suspect, the same person. (2) We take preference for stories from the South because people in the South have the proper tools to be funny – goats, an empty thermos bottle, a trailer of residence, meth, or roller skates. (3) Nobody can die. That’s not funny. We also don’t like loss of limb or digit, unless it’s the shooter and he had it coming. We once allowed a story about a woman shooting herself though the ta-tas because, come to find out, they weren’t her ta-tas to start with.

Today’s story comes out of California so you can bet there’s no goats involved.

The day after Christmas, Gerald Jacinth of Las Vegas, decides to go shoot his brother-in-law in California. Gerald is 75 years old and his victim is 77 years old.  He drives to his brother-in-law’s house, parks across the street, and waits until he comes outside.

Wearing a disguise, Gerald approaches his brother-in-law and tries to hand him a package. The brother-in-law wouldn’t take it. Gerald holds up his bag of presents and shoots his brother-in-law twice. The injuries were non life-threatening. The victim did not recognize his brother-in-law because he was “wearing an over the head mask resembling Donald Trump, white long curly beard and a Santa hat as he made his way up the driveway.”

Well, damn, would you take a special delivery package from Donald Trump Claus?

The police arrived in a minute and since the victim was able to take a picture of Gerald’s car as he drove off, they nabbed him still in the same neighborhood. We don’t know what caused the gunfight, but we are going to add Donald Trump mask to our list of funny tools shooters have.

Trump blew out of town on Christmas Eve, headed for Hide-a-Lago to thrash the little white ball and wait out the subpoenas to start pouring in from New York.  On the way out the door, he released yet another weird video, this time calling the joint appropriations and coronavirus response bill “a disgrace” for its spending and $600 per month relief payments to Americans, calling for $2,000 per month, which is what the House Republicans proposed IN MAY.  The problem?  Trump’s WH, through Steve Mnuchin, demanded the $600 per month and wouldn’t budge.  Like most things Trump, what’s going on now doesn’t make any sense unless you look at the world through Trump’s ME ME ME lens.

McConnell, as usual, was the cause of the months-long delay in a new relief bill.  Like Trump, McConnell really doesn’t care if you live or die, and is always happy to use you and me as hostages for no other reason than another political win that is only important to him and his circle of criminals. The one constant with McConnell is that he ALWAYS plays brinksmanship, holding legislation until the very last second, using those who need help as leverage to extract concessions from the Democrats and exact pain on the American people.  This time, though, McConnell may have outsmarted himself by waiting so long.

Historian and Boston College history professor Heather Cox Richardson posted a very interesting piece yesterday on Facebook about she believes is going on.  Her premise is that Trump is exacting revenge against his perceived enemies, including all of us as Americans for voting him out.  He’s also furious with McConnell, Thune, and other Republicans who have recognized Biden as the legal and official President Elect.  Apparently he actually did believe that he could bend reality and the courts and his party to his will to illegally seize power outside of any Constitutional authority.  When our fragile democracy held (at least so far), he has determined to burn down as much as he can, including throwing boxes of nails out of the wagon on his way out of town.

How did McConnell outsmart himself, you ask?  Richardson posits this:  Under the rules, during a Congressional session, the President has 10 days (not counting Sunday) to sign or veto a bill.  However, at the end of a session, though, if that 10 days runs beyond the end date, the bill just dies, called a “pocket veto”.  The current congressional session closes on January 3rd.  Richardson believes Trump received the bill to sign on the 24th, so that gives him until January 4th to sign.  If Trump doesn’t sign by the 3rd, the bill dies, the government shuts down, and millions of Americans suffer.  Millions.

This is the likely end game now for Trump.  The voters said no; the states said no; the Electoral College said no; the courts, including the SCOTUS, said no; the military said no; and the Congress has said no (so far).  If Trump burns it all down, there’s a fair chance that the Dems take the Senate by winning the Georgia runoffs.  The mess he leaves behind will take years for Biden to fix, if ever.  Trump’s stated plan is to run in 2024, and he’ll use the disaster of his own making as the reason to re-elect him to “fix” it.  Our only chance, short of Republicans growing spines, is Trump being convicted of a felony in New York or having one of his thousands of scandals finally stick.

These will be the only things (short of his physical health problems) that can stop him.