Speaker Pelosi has deigned to “provisionally” seat Mariannette Miller-Meeks as Iowa’s 2nd District Congressman and MMM has been sworn in today. Congratulations.
In a post a week ago we offered that: We’re fine with Rita Hart taking her election case to the Democrat controlled House
We are sure it is not lost on most of our regular readers that our post linked above was intended as rhetorical — using Democrat claims and objections regarding Trump supporters and the pursuit of all legal avenues to insure only legal votes are counted (and only counted once). That would be whether that pursuit involves the courts OR the political process enshrined in the Constitution for resolving disputed elections (while protecting the integrity of the federal system and the nature of a republic).
We were employing their claims in support of Rita Hart (Miller-Meeks opponent) in essence against them to benefit the bigger picture — the case for Trump that the election involved fraud sufficient to mean Biden was not the victor. Losing one CD to the existing Democrat majority is survivable, losing the Presidency to comsymps may not be.
Trump’s and Hart’s are different cases and situations with different legal authorizations and tolerance, which we emphasized. Trump has important claims that must be heard in some venue where the power exists to judge properly and to do something about it. We were in pursuit of a rhetorical point that perhaps might register on superficial dominate media and their influence on low information citizenry. It was a fools errand of course, the Dems were way ahead of us in chicanery. “Provisional” seating.
We presumed our readers would know the game and challenge the political environs accordingly although we did not have a lot of hope Democrats would have any discretion in seating Hart. We still do not given Pelosi’s weasel words of seating Miller-Meeks”provisionally.”
The Democrat powers that be saw the implications, “the optics,” of Hart’s pursuit vis a vis Trump, as did we, and made the same calculus. The Miller-Meeks/ Hart situation was prominent and the Dems decided better to put Hart on hold until the presidential situation is resolved. Which is all they really did, thus the “provisional” seating.
It could be that Hart’s case is too sketchy and MMM will be merely allowed the seat while painting a cloud OR, we think more likely given who we are dealing with, once the presidential situation is resolved we suspect they will go ahead and remove MMM and seat Hart. If President Trump prevails (as we pray) they will unseat MMM in a heartbeat to add to what little cushion they have in the House. The same is likely true if Biden is inaugurated.
The big question is will Miller-Meeks pander in any away to keep the seat. We think if she supports Trump’s efforts in the time she is there and all MAGA efforts she will endear herself to her base and have a good chance of re-winning the seat no matter what Democrats do.
