Ding Dong the Witch is Dead, now what?

 While the Universe of Biden fans erupts with renditions of 'Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead" this morning and Trump supporters make their weekly run to restock their ammo at Walmart, a smell of irony rises from the cesspool. 

I read an article last night that  prompted a bit of peacemaking between my wife and I before bed. I think it came from the Washington Post, although I am having a hell of time finding it this morning, given how much it irritated my wife last night.  

The just of it was, Trump is not done by a long shot even with a Biden win in Pennsylvania this morning. Just because the AP calls the election for Biden, doesn't mean that Trump has to concede and odds are he won't. 

The article last night said that if Trump hangs in their and doesn't concede, the republicans will demand that all the contested states are thrown out of the total electoral count because "electoral irregularities". 

Then, because the electoral college is nullified, the election wall fall to the state legislatures to adopt a panel of electors and with that they have the votes to beat the Democrats and put Trump in office for four more years. 

That's a boiled down version and my wife argued that Trumps concession has no legal binding and that the piece was  just a liberal version of Fox news scare tactics. And she's right it is. 

But that doesn't mean that the methodology they used for analyzing the various ways the Constitutional process of electing a president can screw us is wrong. In fact, I spent a whole college career learning about ways the electoral process at the presidential level can screw the average American, and if I read that article, you know one of Rudy Giuliani staff has as well. 

I would guess that just about now they are briefing the Trump War room on a plan to subvert the process and get around the Electoral College using one of about a thousand legal ways there are to set aside the popular vote. It is a well understood Constitutional principle that the process of electing a president  favors a state-based election over a population-based election and there is no way in hell, that the Trump team of lawyers is not pulling out all stops to end run what the Media is calling a done deal this morning. 

The only question is which way will they direct their fire first and how will they come at Biden and the American legal system. 

But it gets even worse. With McConnell and Graham heading back to the Senate and a net loss of seats for the Dems in the House, Biden's four years ahead are going to make the Obama years look like a cake walk through the land of Cooperation. 

Even if Biden does get his chance to wear his prettiest dress to the great big White House dance, the Republican's in Congress are gonna make sure he gets a big ol' bucket pig blood dumped on his noggin every chance they get. We are in for yet another four years of a dysfunctional government that is going to make the last 20 look like a pot party circa 1969 Haight-Ashbury. 

That's only if, we manage to curb the Bush light consumption and Walmart Sports Department spending sprees of the alt right. The only saving grace there is, is that Rush Limbaugh is running out of steam and likely wont make it another four years to spew his hate-filled rhetoric that gets the alt right so hot and bothered. 

I'm not saying I am bearish on the prospects of Mr. and Mrs. America in the next four years, but what  I am saying is that my vison of what lies ahead is making for one great novel.  Which by the way, since they gave Biden the nod, you wont get to see it again until it gets published. So sorry but thanks for playing along at home.