Congress Will Make it Official on Thursday! (Counting the Electoral Votes)

[Clio the Leo]

Tomorrow at 1pm Eastern (and covered on the CSPAN main channel) "Cheeney" will, by law, be forced to rise in front of a combined session of Congress and declare that Barack Obama has been duely elected to the Presidency of the United States of flippin America!!!! (And the Silver Fox will of course be declared to be the elected VP)

At that point, VP Biden will legally be allowed to beat "Cheeney" about the head and shoulders with his bare hands ..... I think ..... I may be wrong about that part.

After that, the waters will begin to receed, the planet will begin to cool and sugar will become quite a bit more sweet. That will be followed by general revelry and merriment in the streets! (even if I'm the only one doing it)

Anyway, sounds like a party waiting to happen!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I cannot fucking wait!

Cheney's expression will no doubt be something to see!

Par-taaaaaaaaaaaaay!

:party: :toast: :toast: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :toast: :toast: :party:

[Clio the Leo]

2. Unless of course he steals some of the votes.....

[valerief]

3. Isn't he dodging a subpoena, too? Maybe he can respond to that while he's in front of Congress. nt

[EraOfResponsibility]

4. K & R'd n/t

[struggle4progress]

5. Congress meets to count electoral votes

By JIM ABRAMS – 59 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House and Senate are coming together in a centuries-old tradition to count the electoral votes from the November election and formally declare that Barack Obama will be the 44th president of the United States.

Vice President Dick Cheney will take a seat next to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to preside over the joint session of Congress on Thursday. In what could be his last act as president of the Senate, Cheney was to hand the certificates from each state's electors to the tellers — two members each from the House and the Senate — to be read off and tallied.

At the conclusion of the state-by-state rundown, Cheney was to read the tally sheet and announce the results — that Obama has been elected president and Joe Biden will succeed Cheney as vice president ...

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iE0qKVXKwxfZn1zG5PG7KNWlOvUgD95IRTAG0

[WeDidIt]

6. I think the Birthers will get a Congresscritter to object

Will they be able to get a Senator to risk their entire career over a whacko conspiracy theory to object as well?

[davidpdx]

7. It will be 2am in the morning here in Korea

and I'm getting my ass out of bed to watch it. Yes, 2am in the morning! And I may scream, yell, holler and yowl like a mad man as well. Oh the neighbors are NOT going to like me much.

[JimGinPA]

8. Thanks...

For that heads up. Now I have a reason to watch TV today.


K&R

[democrattotheend]

9. Any idea what time?

I know it's lame but I want to watch.

[Thrill]

10. Yeah I would like to know as well

[WeDidIt]

11. 1 PM Eastern

The Joint Session of Congress will be held live on CSPAN, or watch the stream here:

http://c-span.org/Watch/C-SPAN_wm.aspx

[democrattotheend]

12. Awesome, thanks!

[regnaD kciN]

13. A sweet turnabout...

...from eight years ago, when Al Gore had to certify Chimpy as the "victor" in the 2008 (s)election.

[TTUBatfan2008]

14. I hope...

that Cheney is forced to say Barack HUSSEIN Obama. I want these neocon jerks to have to say his full name and acknowledge him as Commander-in-Chief. You just know it drives them batshit crazy.