Posted on 03/27/2021 10:13:00 AM PDT by John Semmens
This week, Presidential Press secretary Jen Psaki argued for the elimination of the Senate Filibuster, calling it a “tool of racists. Throughout American history the Senate filibuster has been repeatedly used to block legislation that would safeguard the rights of minorities. As the President pointed out in his press conference on Thursday, the filibuster was the first line of defense in protecting Jim Crow laws that denied equality for blacks.”
“Last year alone, the Senate had to invoke cloture more than 250 times to end senseless filibusters.” Psaki pointed out. “This is almost five times as many instances than during the entire period between 1917 and 1971. I think this clearly demonstrates that the misuse of the filibuster is getting worse. As the President said, if the 1917 to 1971 period was the era of Jim Crow, last year must have been the era of Jim Eagle.”
Interestingly, except in a handful of cases, all of the filibusters were launched by Democrats. Reminded of this, Psaki contended that “it is the typical disinformation tactic of the Republicans to try to distort the message the President is trying to communicate. The country needs to unify behind the President’s program. Democrats have the majority in Congress. As the President said in the news conference, the GOP has the opportunity to support his programs or be rolled under by an unstoppable majority. Sen. McConnell is the one threatening to filibuster needed reforms. He is the one following in the footsteps of those who abused the Senate’s rules for racist ends.”
McConnell called both President Biden’s and Psaki’s remarks “an incredible inversion of reality. Democrats were the Party of Jim Crow. The members of Congress who were also members of the Ku Klux Klan were all Democrats. Democrats retarded progress on civil rights legislation by repeated filibusters for 100 years after the Civil War. The 250 filibusters they initiated last year were an attempt to block the appointment of federal judges. In my view, the 50/50 split in the Senate does not constitute a mandate for the Democrats to radically change America. Voters didn’t vote for a radically different America. Passing radical legislation on a straight party line vote is the antithesis of unity.”
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https://libertyusa21.wordpress.com/2021/03/27/filibuster-a-tool-of-racists/
And it was historically the Democrats who fought Jim Crow laws. (Also semi-satire).
No Republican ever owned any slaves. The Republicans came to power as the party of abolition. It was the #1 item of their platform.
That the democrats get away with all of their huge lies is amazing to me. They've completely inveigled millions of weak-mined, intellectually lazy people.
Or, RINOs, for short.
Lets face it people... They’re going to do it. AND, then they are going to ram through as much leftist crap as they can think of. We’re near the end of it all people. Take your American Flag, wrap it up well and store it away safely and carefully. Soon, it will be but a memory. Stupid and EVIL people are in charge, AND there is NOTHING to stop them.
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