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Pierce writes: "Ari Berman, the relentless defender of the franchise against all enemies foreign and domestic, has been suggesting on the electric Twitter machine that none of the 126 Republicans who have signed onto the Covenant of Sedition should be seated when the new Congress opens in January."

Representative Kevin McCar­thy, center, the House minority leader, is one of 126 House Republicans to have signed on to support Texas's suit challenging the election in the Supreme Court. (photo: Anna Moneymaker/NYT)
Representative Kevin McCar­thy, center, the House minority leader, is one of 126 House Republicans to have signed on to support Texas's suit challenging the election in the Supreme Court. (photo: Anna Moneymaker/NYT)


You Don't Need to Seat the 126 Republicans Who Signed Onto the Covenant of Sedition

By Charles P. Pierce, Esquire

12 December 20


As Rep. Bill Pascrell pointed out, there's a good case to be made via Section III of the 14th Amendment.

ri Berman, the relentless defender of the franchise against all enemies foreign and domestic, has been suggesting on the electric Twitter machine that none of the 126 Republicans who have signed onto the Covenant of Sedition should be seated when the new Congress opens in January. This I find intriguing because, after all, this whole election was corrupt because people said mean things to other people. Rep. Bill Pascrell, whose pursuit of the president*'s tax returns has been dogged, does Berman one better. He would refuse to seat them based on Section III of the 14th Amendment. It reads as follows:


Down with the traitor, up with the star!

Weekly WWOZ Pick To Click: "Sweet Emma" (James Andrews): Yeah, I pretty much still love New Orleans.

Weekly Visit To The Pathe Archives: Here, from 1964, is New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller trying to get the Republican National Convention to repudiate the John Birch Society and failing, miserably, as the ur-wingnuts go crazy. (Massachusetts Senator Ed Brooke has a cameo.) And...it begins. History is so cool.

Newsflash! President AWOL Lists Demands!

From the Washington Post.

White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on Friday told Stephen Hahn, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, to submit his resignation if the agency does not clear the nation’s first coronavirus vaccine by day’s end, according to people familiar with the situation...The threat came on the same day that President Trump tweeted that the FDA is “a big, old, slow turtle” in its handling of vaccines, while exhorting Commissioner Stephen Hahn to “get the dam vaccines out NOW.” He added: “Stop playing games and start saving lives!!!” It also led the FDA to accelerate its timetable for clearing America’s first vaccine from Saturday morning to later Friday, according to two people familiar with the process who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters.

Can't we convince him that we've already had his parade and he missed it while he was in the hospital?

Is it a good day for dinosaur news, Irish Times? It's always a good day for dinosaur news!

Since their discovery, palaeontologists had long suspected that they were of dinosaur origin but now dinosaur experts have finally identified them as such. “People knew about them but they had never been formally described. Now it’s official. We know what these dinosaurs are,” says Dr Mike Simms, a curator and palaeontologist at National Museums Northern Ireland and lead author on the study...By looking at details of the internal structure, shape and surface texture of the bone fragments, they were able to confirm that two of the specimens are indeed dinosaur bones – a first for Ireland – and that they belonged to two completely different dinosaurs.

It is completely amazing to me that the Motherland was dino-free for this long. The IT makes the expected joke about St. Patrick, but I regret bitterly that this discovery came far too late for Father Ted to have made an episode out of it.

The “great rarity” of Irish dinosaur fossils is in fact due to most of Ireland’s rocks being “the wrong age for dinosaurs, either too old or too young”, says Simms. Rocks of the correct age have been eroded away or covered up by other rock layers. Even where rocks of the right age are preserved, he explains, they were deposited in ancient seas or deserts and would not normally contain dinosaur remains because these animals mainly lived on land. We are “extraordinarily lucky” to have found these, he says. The bones, taken to have been eroded out of marine rocks nearby, raise questions about the dinosaurs’ diet and death. The two dinosaurs “were perhaps swept out to sea, alive or dead, sinking to the Jurassic sea bed where they were buried and fossilised”, he says.

No matter, even in Ireland, they lived then to give us great craic now.

I'll be back on Monday to analyze the amicus briefs in support of the Texas lawsuit that will have been filed over the weekend by the residents of Vulcan, Eminiar 7, Talos IV, and the Big Rock Candy Mountain. Be well and play nice, ya bastids. Stay above the snake-line, and wear the damn mask.

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