{"id":45748,"date":"2020-12-25T21:39:08","date_gmt":"2020-12-25T21:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45748"},"modified":"2020-12-26T19:42:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T19:42:08","slug":"tuberville-making-an-a-of-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45748","title":{"rendered":"Tuberville making an a** of himself"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=ElectoralCollege%20%232020election%20%23SenTuberville&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/BB1ceizC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-45749\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/BB1ceizC-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/BB1ceizC-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/BB1ceizC-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/BB1ceizC-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/BB1ceizC.jpg 1123w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>U.S. Sen.-elect Tommy Tuberville, the Alabama Republican who exhibited a profound ignorance of government while campaigning for the office to which he was elected, seeks to make a dubious spectacle of himself even before he takes his seat in the next Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Tuberville couldn&#8217;t identify the three branches of the federal government but managed to get elected this year because he is a Republican in a deeply Republican state. Now he wants to challenge President-elect Joe Biden&#8217;s victory over Donald Trump in the presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Tuberville is hinting broadly that he intends to challenge the result when Congress meets Jan. 6 to ratify the Electoral College&#8217;s certification of Biden&#8217;s clear and decisive victory.<\/p>\n<p>Good news, though. Senate Republicans are resisting Tuberville&#8217;s goofy notion that the election is illegitimate because of phony allegations of voter fraud.<\/p>\n<p>He has joined another Alabama nut job, Rep. Mo Brooks, in challenging the results. If they succeed, the House and Senate will have to stage two-hour debates before deciding to do what they must, which is to declare President-elect Biden the winner.<\/p>\n<p>We are being disserved by this kind of idiocy in the halls of our elected Congress.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=ElectoralCollege%20%232020election%20%23SenTuberville&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com U.S. Sen.-elect Tommy Tuberville, the Alabama Republican who exhibited a profound ignorance of government while campaigning for the office to which he was elected, seeks to make a dubious spectacle of himself even before he takes his seat in the next Congress. 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