Wednesday January 14, 2021 ( Electoral College Certification Day -8,
Insurrection Day -8,
Georgia Senate Election -9 )
Election Day -72
6 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021
If you go down to the tip of Hatteras Island, where Hatteras Village is located, at 4 o’clock in the afternoon on any day you can see the boats come in. These are the sport fishing boats that have been out in the Gulf Stream fishing. They will be flying flags to let you know if they caught anything and what they caught. For example, an upside-down marlin flag means they caught a marlin and let it go.
The boats back into their slips. The crew throw slivered ice onto the sidewalk behind their slip. Then they open their coolers and throw the fish they caught onto the ice. The fish get arranged side by side in neat rows. Pictures are taken. Congratulations given. Then the person with the trash barrel on a dolly moves in. The barrel is half full of ice. The fish are placed in the barrel and trundled over to the weigh station. The number of the boat and the weight of the catch is recorded on a white board.
The fish are then moved to the cleaning station. A large white cutting board table with a six or eight stations. Each station has a spike sticking up. The fish are plopped onto the spike and cleaned. It takes about ten seconds to clean a fish. I’ve seen the crew go through eighty pounds of catch in about five minutes. On the wall behind them is a sign entitled, “10 Most Asked Questions”
Dolphin
Yellow Fin Tuna
King Mackral
Wahoo
Very Sharp
…
I forget the rest of them (or couldn’t read them off the photo), but you quickly realize these are the answers to the questions people standing around watching the fish cleaning ask these people every day.
In that spirit I will now address the Congressional Republican comments and questions about the impeachment:
– It does matter. If he is convicted then you can vote that he can never hold public office again.
– It would be better to remove him now, but even after the Inauguration he can be impeached. There is precedent for that.
– He would lose his benefits: his pension, his million dollar a year travel budget, his Secret Service protection.
– Obviously, Mitch could do it if he wanted to. Look how fast he shoved through that last Supreme Court nominee. Once Kamala is sworn in the majority in the Senate goes to the Democrats. He wants the weight on them.
– No, this wasn’t a fiery speech to his base. This was a speech of insurrection. He told the people gathered to go to the Capital and stop the counting of ballots of the Electoral College. He had called them to Washington DC with the promise that it would be “wild.”
– Five people died. One was beaten to death. They brought zip ties and handcuffs. They were armed. This was not a peaceful portest. It was never intended to be.
– Go through the normal process? You mean endless committee meetings and investigations? Why? The evidence is on TV and in the public record for all to see. Besides, this is normal process. You don’t need to have all the investigations and stuff if the evidence is already there. You should know all about that. You’ve been shoving unqualified people through for judgeships for four years and ignoring process.
Exactly.