Remember how it was March 4th that Trump was to become president, according to all-knowing Q?
Well, that has changed. Now it’s March 20th. I don’t really understand why except it just is. One excuse is that Trump is president now and that Biden is just a ruse. Trump is in charge of the military and they are still rounding up the liberals, pedophiles, and pope. I do not know why Trump was president for 4 years, visited the pope, seemed real happy about it, but didn’t arrest him.
But, I guess the pope looks grumpy because Trump could have been rattling the keys to the jailhouse in his pocket. I dunno.
You’d think people would be noisy about being rounded up. You’d be wrong, I guess.
Last year, Louie Gohmert fled a lawsuit asking a federal judge to reconfigure a post-Reconstruction law in order to give then-vice president Mike Pence the power to determine the winner of the 2020 presidential election.
The lawsuit won the trifecta of loser, loser, oh crap I’m a loser again. First it was tossed by a federal district court, then an appeals court stomped on it, and lastly, the Supreme Court declined to even consider it.
Now comes the payback time. A Washington, DeeCee, lawyer has filed ethics complaints on the three lawyers who filed the complain on Gohmert.
The lawsuit sought to overturn the votes of certified presidential electors by a series of false statements of fact and ludicrous arguments of law. Among other errors of important facts, the complaint asserted that on December 14, 2020, when the electors met in each state, “the State of Arizona (and several others) have appointed two competing slates of electors.” See Exhibit 1, Complaint ¶ 4.
In fact, no state certified competing slates of electors.
And my favorite headline:
Frivolous and Dangerous. That’s not only Gohmert’s lawsuit, that’s his head.
Just as we figured, the Texas Power Scandal is growing, and it’s going to be as bad as we feared. It turns out that the Abbott appointees to the PUC have been systematically undoing safety and reliability protocols put in place after the 2011 power grid failure. In November of last year, the PUC unilaterally canceled the contract with the Texas Reliability Entity, the outside entity which had been monitoring compliance of Texas power grid since the FERC delegated congressional authority to a private non-profit corporation to monitor the national grid. No entity replaced Texas RE, so no one was minding the store on compliance, winterizing, and reliability.
Even worse, the previous July, the PUC disbanded the Oversight and Enforcement Division, firing it’s chief attorney and reassigning the rest of the staff within the agency. This committee had been charged with overseeing power providers’ operations and enforcing safety and reliability rules.
So, Greg Abbott, whose appointees had dismantled the PUC’s safety and compliance functions of Texas power producers, is now calling for heads to roll – the heads that he appointed himself. I think he can start the rolling with his own.
And meanwhile, people who look at numbers for a reason, have discovered something interesting.
Over the past two years, powerful energy interests with seats on ERCOT’s board invested $700,606 in the campaigns of the House members now investigating ERCOT—averaging $4,671 per member. Would that money have been better spent protecting the grid from severe weather?
Click here and scroll to the last few pages to see how much your state representative got.
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