Baghdad Bob on the Potomac

As Republicans began discussing a Biden presidency more openly on Tuesday, Trump still pledged to press forward with almost nonexistent legal options.

“Tremendous evidence pouring in on voter fraud. There has never been anything like this in our Country!” Trump tweeted just as members of his party were publicly recognizing Biden’s victory.
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“The president is still involved in ongoing litigation related to the election,” said White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, calling the Electoral College vote “one step in the constitutional process.”

Poor Kayleigh. For a supposedly Harvard-educated lawyer[1], she's coming across as one of the dumber people working in the West Wing, and under Trump, that's a very low bar.

Meanwhile, even Moscow Mitch has had enough with seditious Republicans.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell warned Republican senators Tuesday during a private caucus call not to object to the election results on Jan. 6, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

McConnell told his caucus that challenging the results would force Republicans to take a “terrible vote” because they would need to vote it down and appear against President Donald Trump. Senate Majority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.) and Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) also echoed McConnell’s remarks.
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Several House Republicans, led by hard-line conservative Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), are still planning to challenge the election results on Jan. 6, the date Congress will officially certify them. If a Republican senator joins the long-shot effort, however, it will force both chambers to take a vote on the election. But they have yet to get official buy-in from any GOP senators, though Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) hasn't ruled it out.

Frankly, I'd like to see them try. There is zero chance of success. Any vote that could threaten to tear apart the husk of the Republican party would be a plus for the nation. The GOP has become a party that lives in an illogical reality, where ideology is all and facts simply don't matter. Furthermore, it had long become a revanchist party, which yearns for a time when white men had priority over everyone else, women stayed home cooking meals and plopping out babies and all of those people knew their place, which was to work hard jobs for low pay and never go within a mile of a voting booth. The cops said "sir" and "ma'am" to white people of status, administered hickory shampoos to white trash and gay men, and, as far as those people were concerned, they could be shot dead with impunity.[2]

One would think that there could be a role in this country for a conservative party that operates from a position of taking solid science and then applying conservative principles to things that need to be done. If the science is clear on something, conservtives could argue for an approach that incorporates market principles rather than government mandates. But the current conservative party starts out by burying their head in the sand and pretending that problems don't exist.[3] They could do much better and make a stab at competing in the marketplace of ideas, instead of relying on trying to rig the game.
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1. Has anyone seen her diploma?
2. Usually in the back.
3. If the current iteration of Republicans were in power back then, we'd still have leaded gas, leaded paint and no pollution controls or safety equipment in vehicles.