Wow! Those North Carolina Republicans sure have had the air taken out of their balloons, haven't they?
Not that we're feeling sympathetic. In fact, there's a ton of schadenfreude involved when you watch a particularly disgusting state GOP having to backtrack on an election-fraud-tainted Congressional race when their national party has been spending all their time getting blue in the face about election fraud by Democrats that didn't exist.
In true Trumpian fashion, Republicans are themselves guilty of everything they accuse us of. Especially in North Carolina, where GOP efforts to suppress the vote are only surpassed by the self-righteousness of the faux-Christian "pastor" Mark Harris who, after coming perilously close to perjuring himself, threw in the towel yesterday and supported a new election in NC-09.
Pretty funny when you consider how Harris and the state Republican Party were filled with umbrage and insistent that Harris be seated in Congress even though the election was questioned. "The people of the ninth district are tired of waiting and should not have to wait any longer," huffed Dallas Woodhouse, state party executive director. “If [the State Board of Elections] can state with certainty that whatever bad behavior that took place could not have changed the race, then they should certify Mr. Harris."
And in January, Harris himself indignantly demanded to be certified and seated when the new Congress was sworn in. Sadly for him, the new Democratic majority bitch-slapped him back. "In this instance, the integrity of our democratic process outweighs concerns about the seat being vacant at the start of the new Congress," said Majority Leader Steny Hoyer.
That decision is looking mighty solid today, isn't it? Will Democrats take a victory lap? They probably won't — but they should, so we cats take it for them. And we PURR.
(IMAGE: Mark Harris, realizing during his son's testimony to the State Board of Elections that his political career is toast.)
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