Posted on 01/12/2022 8:21:10 AM PST by Mariner
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s decision to call for changing the Senate’s rules to pass voting rights protections was a long time coming. Perhaps — in the view of his most disaffected supporters — too long.
A self-proclaimed institutionalist who spent more than three decades abiding by those rules as a senator, Biden repeatedly defended the often-arcane procedures of the Senate, even as Republicans used them to block his agenda and he came under increasing pressure from liberal activists in his party to rethink his position.
Those rules, he said with admiration more than a decade ago, were about “compromise and moderation,” a core part of his political identity. To support changing them would be to admit that the principles he so cherished had withered in a city now consumed by partisan rancor.
On Tuesday, he made that admission.
“The threat to our democracy is so great that we must find a way to pass these voting rights bills,” he said in an impassioned speech in Atlanta on the grounds of Morehouse College and Clark Atlanta University. “Debate them. Vote. Let the majority prevail. And if that bare minimum is blocked, we have no option but to change the Senate rules, including getting rid of the filibuster.”
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They are terrified they'll have to vote on it.
Sounds like hypocritical demented Brandon is going full blown Leftist. He knows his administration has about a 6 month window to ruin the country.
Has Michael D. Shear ever considered what would happen if the Republicans got a simple majority in the Senate and the democrats no longer have the filibuster to block GOP legislation?
No. That would be similar to self reflection, not a strong point for Dems.
No brainer! If the democrats succeed in changing the filibuster rule and push through the H1 Federal Election reform legislation, the communist democrats will secure political power in perpetuity. The only way that can ever be reversed is with sacrifice and blood by those Americans who cherish liberty and freedom.
Whatever his “constitutional” principles might have been decades ago, today he’s an old man with moderately advancing cognitive decline. In 2022 he simply says what his marxist handlers whip up on his teleprompter. I doubt he even remembers his defense of Senate rules. That was a different time when his mind was more functional.
“Has Michael D. Shear ever considered what would happen if the Republicans got a simple majority in the Senate and the democrats no longer have the filibuster to block GOP legislation?”
I’m pretty sure Mr. Shear sees what we see. The GOP would never push their advantage. The GOP is, after all, comprised of mostly assistant Democrats.
“..The GOP is, after all, comprised of mostly assistant Democrats....”
We call UniParty hacks around these parts.
> Sounds like hypocritical demented Brandon is going full blown Leftist. <
Joe Biden was always a bum, and a fraud. But in the old days he was his own man. Now he’s just a sad puppet. He’ll read whatever they tell him to read, and say whatever they tell him to say.
Yep, they must love how obedient he is.
Biden has not been truthful about his bgrnd:
<><>Biden befriended segregationist senators during his many years in the Senate,
<><>he opposed school busing,
<><>he backed Clinton’s law for punitive minority jail time,
<><>he called Delaware that put him in office for years a “slave state.”
Biden, Kamala Harris and the Dem hit squads have spent the last 30 years attacking the United States as racist, oppressive, homophobic, etc.......decrying it’s creation by “evil religious white men” solely to oppress anyone who was unwhite.
But on Jan 6, she, and the Party of Never Miss a Political Opportunity, suddenly “saw the light.”
The knee-jerkers crassly played the “give a damn card.”
Harris: “What the extremists who roamed these halls sought to degrade and destroy was not only a building, hallowed as it is,......they were assaulting the institutions, the values, the ideals that generations of Americans have shed blood to establish and defend.”
Too bad they don’t govern as if they believed all that.
Bidens flagrant abuse of power and trust is one thing. The openly contemptuous
departure from functions of government and rule of law is another thing altogether.
FOR INSTANCE In 2005, Barack Obama argued in defense of the filibuster on the Senate floor and now refers to the tactic as a “Jim Crow relic” ......... a comment that resident Joe Biden echoed on Thursday.
It’s creepy how this guy Obummer thinks he gets two and three bites of the political apple. He had his turn......he should STHU. “Recount your stolen holdings, Bummer, and hope you’re not invested w/ a Madoff.”
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You say that, but it is exactly what Mitch used to get Trump’s judges thru during Trump’s 4 years (so far!). The Republicans did in fact use it to their advantage.
And the whole thing was Harry Reid’s idea to get Obama judges past GOP blockage.
Oopsies!
“You say that, but it is exactly what Mitch used to get Trump’s judges thru during Trump’s 4 years (so far!). The Republicans did in fact use it to their advantage.”
You got me there. Yep, there was that one time...
Rest assured if the dims thought they would lose control of the sinate they’re reinstitute the filibuster to “save democracy!”
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