Posted on 12/16/2021 5:31:16 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) on Thursday wrecked President Biden’s hopes of destroying federal election integrity laws, causing Democrats to panic heading into the 2022 midterms.
While Biden on Wednesday was forced to shelve his massive tax and spend package until next year because of Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) opposition, Biden immediately pivoted to enact his second priority of altering election integrity laws, such as doing away with popular voter ID constraints.
“If we can get the congressional voting rights done, we should do it. … There’s nothing domestically more important than voting rights,” Biden said.
But Sinema singlehandedly burst Biden’s desperate attempt to weaken election integrity laws Wednesday evening by stating she will protect the 60-vote filibuster threshold. Fifty Senate votes are needed to trash the filibuster. If the filibuster is terminated, a simple majority vote could be held to destroy election laws.
To lure Sinema into destroying election laws, Democrats have watered down their original H.R.1 proposal. Yet Sinema’s spokesman John LaBombard told Politico she will protect the filibuster’s bipartisan standard and ultimately election integrity.
“She continues to support the Senate’s 60-vote threshold, to protect the country from repeated radical reversals in federal policy which would cement uncertainty, deepen divisions, and further erode Americans’ confidence in our government,” LaBombard said.
Sinema’s spokesman also implied that Sinema may be interested in the watered down “voting rights” proposal if it garnered bipartisan support above the filibuster’s threshold.
“Senator Sinema has asked those who want to weaken or eliminate the filibuster to pass voting rights legislation which she supports if it would be good for our country to do so,” LaBombard said.
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So we can thank two Democrats for doing what the GOP couldn’t.
McTurtle will rescue Brandon.
We’re in strange times. Sinema, like. Romney, despise.
“ So we can thank two Democrats for doing what the GOP couldn’t.”
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BINGO!
I would add, “couldn’t or wouldn’t do”………
. . . by a thread.
We’ll, the only reason those two Democrats are so important is because the Republicans are 50-0 on that same side.
the voting rights bill is about voting rights like the infrastructure bill was about infrastructure
That's why Warren is attacking SCOTUS and why they pivoted to so-called voting rights in which even RINOs aren't going to support.
I'm not a Sinema fan, she supported Trump's impeachment and stole her seat, but if she can throw wrenches in the Left's agenda that's fine by me.
Not couldn’t, wouldn’t.
McTurtle will rescue Brandon.
Probably, to quote Soundgarden “Times are gone for honest men, and sometimes far too long for snakes.
How dare you!
How dare you!
Dotcha know the Republicans are to blame for EVERYTHING!!!! The qtards said so! So did Uncle Larry from his trailer park on social media!!! Oh and it was on Bitchute and Grifter Pundit too!
Get out of here with your facts and common sense!!!!
How dare you!!!!
/s
Sen. Juan McNasty was a deep state, grifting jerk but RINO Sen. Jeff “The Snake” Flake’s sad face was sooo punchable.
This ho has saved our ass on more than one occasion.
Ironically, our asses would be cooked if she hadn't stared down the crazies.
It Isn’t An Accident That Joe Biden Quoted Stalin to Make His Push to Institutionalize Vote Fraud
The White House wants to mark the new year with a forceful push for voting rights, portraying the protection of the ballot as a battle for democracy itself. But despite a renewed emphasis from an increasingly impatient and frustrated base, prospects for legislative success still look grim.
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The White House has been considering connecting the voting rights drive with the upcoming first anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, making the case that the most sacred tenant [“tenant,” lolololol, the next time you want to complain about our copyediting, remember this] of America’s democracy remains under siege one year after the insurrection fueled by the election fraud lies told by former President Donald Trump.
To strongly make that case, the president and his team had been hoping to clear the legislative deck by the Jan. 6 anniversary. But the president’s social spending bill, known as the Build Back Better Act, appears stalled for the foreseeable future in the Senate, with Manchin’s refusal to commit to the $1.75 trillion legislation seemingly certain to push the measure into early 2022.
Biden signaled on Wednesday that he’d be fine with prioritizing election reform for the time being, saying: “If we can get the congressional voting rights done, we should do it. … There’s nothing domestically more important than voting rights.” But, previously, White House aides had consistently signaled that they wanted the social spending bill first and voting rights second.
Two days ago, Biden meandered his way into trying to make a case for overturning the US Constitution in favor of a monstrous and illegal Democrat bill that will centralize control of voting within the most Democrat-infested parts of the federal government. The full speech is below, and the full remarks are at the end of this post.
The struggle is no longer just who gets to vote or making it easier for eligible people to vote. It’s about who gets to count the vote and whether your vote counts at all.
If that line sounds familiar to you, it should. One of Joe Stalin’s personal secretaries, Boris Bazhanov (not to be confused with Boris Badenov), fled the USSR in 1928 and wrote a book about his experiences. He quoted Stalin as describing elections this way. ‘I regard it as completely unimportant who in the party will vote and how, but it is extremely important who will count the votes and how.’
Bingo. That is precisely what is at stake in the so-called “John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.” The first rule in this game is that you need to pay attention to what they are saying when they tell you what they are planning to do.
The Democrats are going in the opposite direction for exactly the reasons articulated by Stalin. If you ever wondered why George Soros invested in electing state secretaries of state, this is it. They are adulterating the poll books with hundreds of thousands of voters who no longer reside in the precinct where they are registered; sometimes, they live in no precinct at all (Virginia Man Sentenced to Prison for Registering Core Democrat Constituency to Vote). They want to send activists into assisted living facilities and collect “absentee ballots.” They want ballots to be counted without regard to when they arrive. They want “voter intent” to be a real thing. They want to keep partisan and third-party observers away when votes are counted. They want us all to ignore massive blocks of single-party ballots dumped into the system at critical times. The Democrats and their “voting rights” bill aspire to make elections meaningless. The idea is that you vote, and then the Democrats tell you the outcome.
What does this even mean? Not a single Republican was going to vote for this. This was entirely in the Democrats' hands.
“Bingo” what? Zero Republicans were going to vote for his, and zero were going to vote to end the filibuster. This was entirely in the Democrats’ hands. There is no “couldn’t” or “wouldn’t” involved in this as far as the GOP.
In an age when the Russian government is more reliable than the US government, and when we have to rely on maverick democrats to protect us from feckless rinos, then I guess all things the possible.
Here we go again, spoiling another false, made up narrative...
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