GOP Coronation

All Hail The Republican Overlords

by digby

Amato's got a nice post up about Republican coronation day. I remember they had extensive coverage of Pelosi's election, but I'm fairly sure it was because it was an historic milestone, not because it meant that the entire world had shifted on its axis.

As I've been watching cable TV during the holidays and now into the first week of January, I learned something that I kind of missed this past November. It appears that the Republicans have taken over the White House and the Senate along with the House. Did you know that? The media, at least, are trumpeting January 5th as being just as big as Obama's Inauguration day because that's the day Republicans will be sworn in to take control of the House.

Meanwhile, we all knew that Michelle Bachman had conservative Supreme Court justice Scalia booked to give lessons on the constitution to incoming teabaggers, but this really strikes me as going too far:

ABC's Ariane de Vogue reports:

Behind closed doors Chief Justice John Roberts swore in members of speaker designate John A. Boehner’s staff this morning during a private ceremony.

The Constitution requires all federal employees to take an oath to support the Constitution, but it’s not every day the oath is administered by the Chief Justice of the United States. Boehner invited Roberts to appear, and the speaker designee’s spokesman believes it could be the first time staff was sworn in by a Chief Justice.

I thought Amato wsa being hyperbolic when he compared this to the president's inauguration. Apparently not.

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