Posted on 06/22/2021 10:49:15 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Former Republican Party chairman Michael Steele on Tuesday called for nationalizing elections and ending the filibuster in the Senate.
Steele argued that states are stripping away access to the ballot box and “putting hurdles” in front of voters. He added that removing the Senate filibuster and putting the federal government in charge of election laws makes “common sense.”
“[T]he filibuster is used as a wedge, a political insiders’ game, tool, to sort of not have to deal with the big policy,” Steele said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “Rank and file Americans out there are just like, ‘Can you just get it done? You know, our vote, we’re watching states strip away our access to the ballot box, putting hurdles in front of us. Can you at least address it? We’re not asking for the federal government to control voting. We’re asking, could you just create a platform in which we can access voting in our own states?’ And yet they’re falling back on these procedural arguments as if people give a damn. And they don’t.”
“They just want you to do the doggone legislation,” he added. “This is not rocket science — it’s common sense.”
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These are asinine positions.
He’s on the Commie-Cast payroll. #ing tool.
You don’t get to the highest echelons of party politics without being compromised by someone.
What happened to this guy..he was once pretty darn decent, then he got swiss cheese for brains, guess he was bought off..like the Million Dollar Man once said, everyone’s got a price
Another great example of failed affirmative action.
He only appeard decent ...all the conservative stuff expounded were lies!!!!
A Dictator, especially a Communist, would be much better, especially if he could dissolve congress and appoint his own judges and magistrates...(sounds sarcastic, but that is what they really want).
Not that I trust opinion polling all that much but “voter ID” laws have remained fairly popular over the years. If you want to give the people what they want then it would be for “common sense” election laws.
Steele was a collosal mistake. At first he ‘seemed’ pretty solid, but slowly he turned far left, revealing his true character
Wow, so disappointed in Steele.
Haven’t heard Bush support these positions.....?
This is what happens when you sleep with Clinton supplied underaged Hatian refugees and you don’t want the prison guard to tie wrap your neck with piano wire.
he is now the man of squeal....
Wonder if he realizes why he is known as “former”????
He was born that way. I never liked him. I never trusted him. He always smelled of RINO dung.
He’s a Maryland Republican. This is what we get here.
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