Right now, President Trump is locked in one of the no-holds-barred political fights that have become the hallmark of his tenure in office. In my opinion, the voting process in a half-dozen or so states is so corrupted that we can never know the actual vote counts. Cases are working their way toward the Supreme Court and the decisions rendered by that court could decide the outcome of the election. Likewise, Republican legislatures in Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania could decide that the vote count is impossibly compromised by fraud and stupidity and put forth their own slate of electors.

For this strategy to work, the Trump administration is refusing to acknowledge that Joe Biden is president-elect. In my view, this is the correct decision. To that end, the General Services Administration has refused to allow the Biden campaign access to the fund set aside for funding presidential transitions. More pointedly, the Director of National Intelligence has refused to give access to the Presidential Daily Brief to Biden.

This is as it should be. Joe Biden is too far down the slippery slide to full-blown dementia to be able to comprehend anything that doesn’t involve pudding. He is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Chinese government and should not be permitted within miles of anything that is even vaguely classified. Candidate Biden received intelligence briefings and, as far as I can determine, still does. That is all he is entitled to unless and until either the Electoral College or the Congress decides otherwise.

At this critical time in our political process, a time in which we may have just witnessed the first instance of how all future elections will be managed, you would think that the GOP Senate Caucus, the body upon whom we will rely to keep some part of the Constitution alive should we experience a Biden and then a Harris presidency, could at least understand the stakes and stand firm. You would be wrong.

First up was Oklahoma Senator Jim Lankford who, for reasons that remain a mystery, made a total ass of himself earlier today

“There is no loss from him getting the briefings and to be able to do that,” Lankford told radio station KRMG, noting that he sits on the Senate Oversight Committee and that he’s already started engaging on this issue.

The Oklahoma Republican said if no progress is made on the issue by Friday, he will step in and say, “This needs to occur so that regardless of the outcome of the election, whichever way that it goes, people can be ready for that actual task.”