(01-04-2021, 01:15 PM)Bchbunnie4 Wrote: So objecting to an election certification is a threat to democracy now? Funny how that works, huh?

https://youtu.be/6D00MmTuja8

Good video.
They didn't include all of the objections.  Corrine Brown also objected that day.
Not that it would have changed the outcome; Republicans had a majority in both chambers and any dispute between the two chambers about certification would have gone to the governor of FL, also Republican.
The objections we see on the 6th this year also aren't going to change the outcome.  Democrats control the House and enough Republicans have signalled that they have no stomach for this that the two houses will agree that Biden won each of the disputed states.

What's different is the sincerity.

In 2000, all Democrats really believed that Gore would have won if hand recounts had been completed in a timely fashion.  They ran out of time, and the Supreme Court ruled that they must honor the deadline.  No one accused the Democrats of posturing or insincerity - they were accused of whining and of being sore losers.  The deadline was just as much a part of the rules as the casting of ballots and the counting of ballots, even if miscounted votes could have been found if they were given more time.

In 2020, Ben Sasse says that all Republican lawmakers confess privately that they know Biden won, but some of them are posturing to improve their chances in the next election.  I see no reason to doubt Sasse's word on this.  Do you?  The dispute this time is insincere.

Any dispute can undermine a democracy, but sincere disputes are necessary from time to time.  Insincere ones are not necessary.  Right?

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