Dissecting the most unlikely but possible scenarios of the betrayal of democracy (though democracy will prevail)

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No, Biden Hasn't Won Yet: One More Nightmare Scenario

One part of this scenario, which the author, Prof. Jeremy D. Mayer, cogently relates in Politico, is a little alarmist. Mayer is suggesting that Republicans could somehow get the Senate to sit there for another 12 days-- or more-- of Republican challenges after the January 6 confirmation of the Electoral College results, without the Democrats raising Cain, and the US People too.

And also the four Republican Senators who have acknowledged Biden's victory before the Electoral College voted, Ben Sasse (R-Ne), Susan Collins (R-Me), Mitt Romney (R-Ut) and Lisa Murkowski R-Ak). Sasse, who with his youth and good looks is certainly harboring Presidential ambitions, will raise hell.

And besides that, Mitch McConnell (R-Ky), the Majority Leader, has congratulated Biden on his win, and his second-in-command, John Thune (R-SD), the Republican Whip, has said that it is "time to move on." The GOP Senate held solidly when Trump was being impeached; I figure by that that McConnell has instilled enough discipline to avoid potentially disastrous moves by his Party (he'll have to keep a leash on his Kentucky seatmate Rand Paul...).

Ted Cruz (R-Tx) might be crafty and aggressive, but I just can't see him disenfranchising tens of millions of people through something as chickenspit as delaying tactics. According to the nearly-ancient Election Count Act, the Senate gets 8 hours of debate, two hours per state, if Republican challengers are going to challenge the vote in the closest four battleground states.

And if the only way to stop this illegal delay going through election day and denying Joe Biden and Kamala Harris the offices they have been duly elected to is for the Senate not to have a quorum, then all Democratic Senators will need to leave Washington and go to their home states.

Let the sergeant-at-arms go find them there and "drag them" back to DC, as is quaintly permitted by the ECA. Ha ha.

There's no way, at least, according to this professor, that Donald Trump will continue to be President of the United States after January 20, 2021.

Of course, if the Republicans go through to the bitter end with this delaying action, there will be further damage to people's trust in government, and further societal polarization of the Trumpists from the other sixty-some percent of Americans. Trumpism is either a virus or a case of mass hypnosis, or just the success of the dumbing-down of America to be mere unthinking, seldom-questioning consumers by constant, decades-long bombardment with messages of "buy this widget!" I haven't figured out which.

However, after that date, if the Republicans insist on denying Biden the presidency "because they are more loyal to Trump than to their country," Mayer concludes, they will have made Nancy Pelosi POTUS by Constitutional law governing the order of Presidential succession. And as Barack Obama said last night, the GOP is the minority party, regardless of their current control of the Senate.

And as President, Nancy Pelosi would not be a party to nuclear holocaust any more than Joe Biden will be, if the nightmare scenario of Jeremy Mayer does not carry to its end, and Biden is, justly, inaugurated.

Authors Website: http://www.watermelonslim.com

Authors Bio:

My name is William Perkins Homans the third, but probably more people know me as the bluesman (and artist) Watermelon Slim.



I've been in the fight against war, fascism, injustice and inhumanity for 47 years. I was at MayDay, 1971, and at the moratorium March the week before. I was one of the leaders of the Great New Jersey Turnpike Stall on my birthday, April 25, 1971.



I bear the scar on my left shin from a neoNazi jackboot, when I was one of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War who bounced the NSWPP from Flamingo Park at the Republican National Convention of 1972. My father fought the Nazis in the North Atlantic and Anzio, and I met their spawn in Miami.



My formal education has been first-rate. I wouldn't trade my degrees for Harvard ones. I was raised in the finest private Catholic and Episcopal high schools.
I earned my BA in History and Journalism from the University of Oregon/Eugene. I was also captain of the U of O bowling team, 1984-1986. High game 299. Mentors: Dr. W. Gordon Rockett, Dr. Daniell Pope
1997-2000: Oklahoma State University. M.A., History, 2000, plus the school-teaching curriculum. Mentor: Dr. Ronald Petrin

I am a world survivalist. My politics transcends right and left, perforce. I watch for signs we may transcend in some yet-unknown fashion the vectors and indicators in my environmental and geopolitical analysis.
As Tiny Tim said, "God bless us, every one!"