GOP Lawmaker May Support Censuring All 147 Republicans Who Voted to Overturn Biden's Win

[UpInArms]

Source: Newsweek

A freshman Republican congresswoman said that she may support efforts to censure all 147 of her GOP colleagues who voted in favor of objections to President-elect Joe Biden's election win hours after an angry mob of President Donald Trump's supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol.

Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina, who was sworn in alongside other House members on January 3, made the remarks during in interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Monday. Mace insisted that she would be "looking at all of the options that are on the table" for punishing a large number of her GOP colleagues who supported efforts to overturn the will of voters, including censuring them.

"We had a constitutional crisis on Wednesday," Mace said. "I am barely a week into the job and I am looking at all of the options that are on the table. Censure should be on the table. We have to hold ourselves accountable, we have to hold ourselves to a higher standard. I am extremely disappointed with some members in my own party over their behavior and over their words."

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The congresswoman said that Americans who believed Trump's claims of massive voter fraud had "followed these lies because they feel like their voices aren't heard," adding "that's why the president was so successful in fleecing them" with his "lies and dishonesty to the American people."

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/gop-lawmaker-may-support-censuring-all-147-republicans-who-voted-overturn-bidens-win-1560703

[VladmireTrumpkins]

1. One of the few with character and courage..

among a party of cranks and bigots

[Fullduplexxx]

2. Until she has a "talkin-to"

[obamanut2012]

4. Nah, this is all to set up a Presidential run in ten years

She is pretty horrible.

[obamanut2012]

3. She is right here, but do not trust her

She is a pretty extreme wingnut, who is palatable to moderates. VERY RWNJ on about all issues, and was the first woman to make it through the Citadel, which gives her some cred to some folks.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

5. Well, what about all the Democrats whose voices were shouted down

for the past four years? What about those whose voices were forever silenced by death because the Rs &; Pissolini mishandled the pandemic, purposely letting it spread, thinking it would kill mostly Democrats???!!!

I am so sick if the perpetrators playing victims!

[Miguelito Loveless]

6. OK

Then expel the ringleaders.

[VladmireTrumpkins]

7. Some distrust her but I say

don't discourage any Republican from breaking with the rest..welcome them and don't attack them..We need to encourage others not discourage them from breaking with these Trumplicans..

[DLCWIdem]

8. Didn't some of the Gop fundraise on the "big lie"

IMO not being "heard" is the least of the reasons. She should worry that these people gave money to GOP shysters who were telling them their money would help the cause.

[grumpyduck]

9. Woop de do.

Censure them. So what? That's not even a slap on the wrist.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

10. The 147 seditionists should be forced to wear the letter "S" on their chests.

Kind of like Hester Prynne in "The Scarlett Letter," only bigger than her "A."