McConnell called Hawley out on conference call Hawley wasn't on

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: CNN

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday held a conference call with the Senate GOP caucus in which he questioned Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley over his plans to object to the Electoral College vote, according to a source directly familiar with the call.

Hawley did not respond to multiple questions from McConnell, including when asked to lay out his plan to object to the Electoral College vote, and was apparently not on the call. Politico was the first to report the news of the call that an official told CNN occurred earlier Thursday.

A second source familiar with the call told CNN that McConnell made it clear to his members on Thursday that he is giving them room to vote their conscience on such objections.

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When Hawley did not speak on the call, Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey, a retiring Republican, explained to the conference why he believed that the state was not a good test case for election fraud allegations, according to the second source familiar with the call.



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[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Josh Hawley, a Profile in non-Courage.

Can't defend his action amongst his caucus. Tell me a lot about his character.

[sandensea]

9. This is the same worm who used his toddler (who has pre-existing conditions) in ads against McCaskil

In those ads, he assured voters that because his beautiful little boy has a congenital condition he'd "never take away" (Obamacare) pre-existing conditions coverage - while leading the charge as state A.G. to strip said coverage!

As he spoke, they'd show the toddler crawling in SloMo - for maximum psychological impact.

Pure, unrefined evil. No wonder he's already the odds-on favorite to win the GOPee nomination in '24.

[OAITW r.2.0]

10. Thanks for your contribution on this scumbag....

[sandensea]

11. You're very welcome - would that it weren't so!

And that such people had no future - but them's the times we live in.

That said, Happy New Year OAITW. All the Best to you and yours.

[OAITW r.2.0]

12. Happy New Year to You....

[riversedge]

16. It is the voters who fall for this crap that are mostly blame. IMHO

[erronis]

23. Or as others have said "It's not the people who vote; but those who count the votes."

Rigged before going into the booth, rigged when being counted.

[ToxMarz]

2. So a sitting Senator ghosted the Senate Majority leader

When called out for his intended attempt to subvert Democracy in the United States.

[Rebl2]

3. He's

a loser and McConnell should strip him of whatever committee’s he is on. Odd how he jumped on the $2000 Covid relief bandwagon all of a sudden after trump wanted it. Why didn’t he speak up for this a month or two ago if he thought it was really needed by the citizens of this country.

[Blasphemer]

4. Not a good "test case"....

That makes it clear that this is not just a Trump fantasy, the GOP is laying the groundwork for challenging election results on a wide scale in the future. Ferreting out voter suppression is not nearly enough.

[Celerity]

17. absolutely

Thank you for seeing this as I do. The US Constitution has multiple systemic flaws that have been, are now being, and will be gamed out and exploited at ever-increasing levels and nation-destroying degrees by the Rethugs.

[Smackdown2019]

5. Republicans excuses Hawley Campaign crimes when he ran.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://amp.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article226917029.html&ved=2ahUKEwiekdrt0vntAhULWqwKHcg6CLQQFjABegQIAxAL&usg=AOvVaw1dxc-hnEUKobsxXInrOQkF&ampcf=1

What do you expect for a rising Republican in a Republican state.

No independent investigation, just political cover up!

Pretty Boy will have Pence's Fly drop some eggs on his hairdo and stick his head up Trumps rear.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. Please trim your links. No need to give all that tracking info linking everyone who clicks to you

https://amp.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article226917029.html

Trim from the front up to the "https" and from the back up to and including the ampersand (just after the "html" in this case). Sometimes you have to experiment a little with less trimming at the end until you get a working link. Often the place to trim is a question mark "?".

[Celerity]

18. [phone]

Also, the non trimming on Twitter posts and then pics drives me bonkers. Just clip off the ? and all after it, especially for tweets.

It is like posters do not even preview their attempts.

[mr_lebowski]

20. Seconded ... bugs the crap out of me too ...

[BumRushDaShow]

6. Turtle can pull committee assignments as punishment if he wants

but will he?

[BobTheSubgenius]

7. Just when you think it's safe to put all this to bed, they pull us back in.

This is just WAY too f'ing bizarre, and not a little bit frightening. The GOP thinks this is a valid tactic and is underpinned by some solid Constitutional law. Just the idea that people with power think this is at all acceptable boggles the mind.

[riversedge]

25. yes, the fact that some are actually talking about this bizarre issue is frightening.

[Hip2bSquare]

8. The inmates are running the asylum!

I love that Moscow Mitch is losing control over his elephants. The ring leader of years and years of obstruction and dirty politics can’t wash off that bronzer stain fast enough.

Absolutely love it, and God willing he loses his role as majority leader!

No pressure at all Georgia!

[kaotikross]

13. they're gonna tug at the heartstrings

By wheeling out the Wheelchair Nazi, Ashley Madison Cawthorne as well.

[dustyscamp]

15. Everyone has a right to stand up and be counted

even Nazi's like Mr Madison

[bucolic_frolic]

19. Mitch plays a masterful game of Ghosts

Merrick Garland? Never saw him.

People in need of $2000? They don't exist.

Lunatic objects to Electoral College? Let's conference with him while he's not there.

This is now a pattern and a strategy.

Look for more of it.

[DFW]

21. My dream scene of a Trmp rally has already been filmed

Even if you don't understand German, if you watch it through, you'll be laughing as much as if you did.

[bucolic_frolic]

22. Hope this becomes the expected outcome

thanks for the post!

[erronis]

24. Gnter Grass - thank you so much DFW. I read the book too many years ago and

didn't realize there was a movie. I will watch it in the first days of the Neues Jahr.

[DFW]

26. One of the greatest German language movies ever

If you‘ve never seen it, you‘re in for a real treat!