Calls to censure or expel Republican Senators that asked for more scrutiny Jan. 6 of the Nov. 3, 2020 election have been met with un-American behavior by Democrat lawmakers. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), 50, who called on his Senate colleagues to open up a 10-day inquiry into the Nov. 3 election was shouted down by the opposition, now blaming Cruz for inciting the Jan. 6 riot with hundreds of Trump supporters storming and Capitol and defacing public property. But when Cruz’s called for a 10-day commission to investigate election fraud, his Democrat Senate colleagues accused the two-term Texas Senator of aiding-and-abetting lawbreakers. Cruz’s communication director Lauren Blair Bianchi resigned in response to Cruz’s opposition to the 2020 election results, certifying 78-year-old President-elect Joe Biden as winner of the Electoral College vote. What Bianchi objected to is anyone’s guess.
Since taking the majority in the U.S. Senate Jan. 5, Democrats have taken a more aggressive stance, showing the kind of intolerance for Republicans not seen before. Democrats have shouted their Republicans down, accusing them of interfering with the Jan. 6 Electoral College vote if they harbored any thoughts that the Nov. 3 election could have been riddled with irregularities. Never before since the first U.S. election Dec. 15, 1788 between George Washington and John Adams, has every U.S. eligible voter received a ballot by mail. Nonpartisan election experts acknowledge that it’s the first time in U.S. history that universal mail-in ballots were used. Voting irregularities were seen in many states accommodating universal mail-in ballots, especially in the so-called battleground states. Yet Democrats insist that any Republican that questions the Nov. 3 results is un-American, practically treasonous.
Calls by Democrat senators to oust Cruz, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) are outrageous, doing nothing other that mirror the views of their constituents to investigate the Nov. 3 election results. Cruz’s former communication director Bianchi said she wasn’t comfortable “moving in the direct that she was not comfortable with,” suggesting that her boss, Ted Cruz, had no right to question the Electoral Vote counts of key battleground states. Democrats have preached that questioning the election was un-American, an affront to American democracy. Can you imagine investigating potential voting irregularities is now considered un-American? What could be more democratic than opening up debate on a national election. No Democrat elected leader can say with 100% certainty that the 2020 election with universal mail-in ballots was fair-and-legitimate.
Democrat senators have gone over the top bullying Republicans that dared to challenge the Electoral College vote. “Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wa.), Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) all called for Cruz and Hawley’s censure and eviction from the U.S. Senate. What did Cruz and Hawley do wrong asking for a 10-day investigation into the Nov. 3 election, rather that rubber stamping the results. Murray, Coons, Brown and Whitehouse all want Cruz and Hawley censured or kicked out the Senate for asking to have the results assessed. “More and more Democratic caucus members are willing to vote yes on a censure resolution,” one unnamed aid told the Hill newspaper. Whitehouse, who support censuring Cruz and Hawley, said both senators should be banned from any committee assignment that investigates the Jan. 6 Capitol rot.
White House has taken bullying of his Senate colleagues to a new level. “The Senate Ethics Committee also must consider expulsions, or censure and punishment, of Senators, Cruz, Hawley and perhaps others,” Whitehouse said. Whitehouse has crossed a dangerous line when open debate and dissent is not tolerated in the U.S. Senate. “Because Congress has protections from the Department of Justice under separation of power, specifically the Speech and Debate Clause, significant investigation will need to be done in the Senate. Because of massive potential conflict of interest, Senators Cruz, Hawley and Johnson [at least] need to be off all relevant committees,” Whitehouse said. If Whitehous and other Democrat senators show such intolerance, it’s going to create a Battle Royale in the U.S. Senate. Threatening senators with censure and expulsion is no way to bipartisanship.
Taking their rage out on 74-year-old President Donald Trump over the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, the House has weaponized its Article 1 authority impeaching the president for the second time. Cruz, Hawley and Johnson did nothing wrong asking for a 10-day investigation into the Nov. 3 election. Threatening censure or worse yet expulsion exposes intolerable bullying now that Democrats have taken over the majority in the U.S. Senate. Rep. Bernie Thomson (D-Miss.), chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, went a step further, asking that Cruz, Hawley and Johnson put on a no-fly list. What crime did Cruz, Hawley and Johnson commit? Asking for a 10-day investigation of the Nov. 3 election? Democrats in the House and Senate are acting drunk with power, now that Biden’s won the Nov. 3 election. If Democrats want more strife, they’ll continue the bullying.
