Posted on 06/06/2021 11:05:03 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Senator Joe Manchin is all but assuring that the Democratic Party’s attempt to continue the debacle of the 2020 presidential election in perpetuity will be brought to a halt, at least the federal level. The Democratic Senator is delivering a backbreaking blow to the Democrats’ hope of passing H.R. 1, which would effectively outlaw strict voter IDs and mandate that elections be carried out via absentee ballots for weeks, if not months before elections.
“I believe that partisan voting legislation will destroy the already weakening binds of our democracy, and for that reason, I will vote against the For the People Act. Furthermore, I will not vote to weaken or eliminate the filibuster,” Sen. Joe Manchin wrote in a hometown newspaper, the Charleston Gazette-Mail. “The fundamental right to vote has itself become overtly politicized,” he added.
“Manchin said lawmakers should instead focus their energies on revitalizing the landmark Voting Rights Act, which was weakened by a Supreme Court decision in 2013,” the AP reported. “Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska has joined him in calling for that approach.”
“Manchin’s opposition to the broader elections bill is just the latest challenge facing Democrats as they enter the summer work period under rising pressure to deliver on their promises to voters,” the report continued. “Manchin reiterated he would not vote to ‘weaken or eliminate the filibuster,’ a route that many Democrats see as the only realistic path forward.”
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Bttt
Wait don’t tell me...left wing,blue check Twitter is calling him a Repubbie, wants him primaried,and said he should just switch parties?
But I thought all democrats since Andrew Jackson were evil mofos
And Republicans from honest Abe on were saints
Come on Mark and Glenn...which is it?
Citation?
I’m thankful that there are still Democrats out there who are actually honest and logical.
Of course, it only takes one Pelosiwench to nullify a whole universe of good people.
sasse, murkeecowski, romney, collins........ JS.
Congress can’t overturn state reforms without runnning afoul of the Constitution. Not that that’s ever stopped them from trying.
“I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan, as proposed by this bill, to indulge a benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds for that purpose. I can find no warrant for that kind of appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit. A prevalent tendency to disregard the limited mission of this power and duty should, I think, be steadfastly resisted, to the end that the lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, the Government should not support the people. The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow-citizens in misfortune. This has been repeatedly and quite lately demonstrated. Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the Government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character, while it prevents the indulgence among our people of that kindly sentiment and conduct which strengthens the bonds of a common brotherhood.”
― Grover Cleveland
Crushing? Yeah, I don’t think so.
Well, if he holds fast against the pressure to get rid of the filibuster, it’s all good.
They gave his wife a six figure income job on the Appalachian Regional Commission. Some think that was a thinly veiled bribe to get him to fall in line with the Democrat party line.
Time will tell. I know many on this site think Joe M. will cave at some point. Is this public statement simply upping the ante to get a bigger bribe for his family? Time will tell on that as well.
None of whom is voting for H.R. 1
The liberal view, has evolved to where any changes to the lenient voter standards of 2020 is akin to Jim Crow laws.
Any attempt to rein in indiscriminate mail in ballots, or have a voter ID requirement, is hysterically said to be a return to Jim Crow.
Among other things, our side has to work to define what the issues are and what the debate is all about. The liberals and media frame the issue that ANY changes to the leniency of the 2020 elections is an attempt to restrict voter rights. That is patently false, but that narrative is circulating.
According riding to SCOTUS voting laws are left to the states.
Got it. So they will rename HR1 to "The Revitalized Voting Rights Act" and pass it.
Close.
Democrat 1: "Manchin is a traitor! He is...a pedophile!"
Democrat 2: "I agree about the traitor part, but so what if he is a pedo? Is there anything wrong with that?"
For the People Act: another example of if you want to know what a bill is for, take the exactly opposite meaning of its name. Numerous examples of this in the last 20 years.
I wish you were right, but Article I Section 4 says otherwise.
Grover Cleveland has been called the Last Jeffersonian. No president since has come close to believing in limited federal power.
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