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The Right Side of History
The American Mind ^ | 01/12/2022 | Spencer Klavan

Posted on 01/12/2022 11:33:58 AM PST by PoliticallyShort

At a speech in Georgia yesterday, President Biden charged all U.S. Senators with deciding “where they stand, not just for the moment, but for the ages.” The Senate filibuster, which Biden defended passionately in 2005 and again last year, is now apparently a neo-segregationist atrocity because it stands in the way of the president’s legislative agenda.

Biden wants federal power to veto election laws in certain states, because he is on the right side of history. Of course this means if you oppose him, you are on the wrong side. “At consequential moments in history, they present a choice,” he said. “Do you want to be on the side of Dr. King or George Wallace? Do you want to be on the side of John Lewis or Bull Connor? Do you want to be on the side of Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis?”

George Wallace, an actual segregationist, is like the filibuster: Biden used to like him. Now, not so much. In 1987 the Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Biden “bragged of an award he received from George Wallace in 1973.” In 1975, then-Senator Biden added: I think the Democratic Party could stand a liberal George Wallace—someone who’s not afraid to stand up and offend people.”

Here we have a president who constantly needs to distance himself from views and relationships which have come to seem morally toxic in the span of just one lifetime. You would think that experience might make him more circumspect about declaring what future generations will think of today’s political debates. Not so. In fact, it is singular that as progressives become more drastically revisionist about America’s history, they also become more passionately confident about who will be viewed favorably in the future.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; blogpimp; filibuster; votingrights

1 posted on 01/12/2022 11:33:58 AM PST by PoliticallyShort
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To: PoliticallyShort

Joe “Squinty” Biden is a member of The Biden Crime Family.


2 posted on 01/12/2022 11:37:14 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: PoliticallyShort

Sounds like someone wants to trample States’ Rights into the ground...


3 posted on 01/12/2022 11:39:28 AM PST by econjack (I'm not bossy. I just know what you should be doing.)
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To: PoliticallyShort

The villains of the DNC and their servile media are the very people that HUAC was rightly a false justly convened to keep from having influence and power.

Racism of the past was bad … but the socialism and wokeness of the current DNC is worse.


4 posted on 01/12/2022 11:48:12 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: PoliticallyShort

Nobody takes the senile pedophile seriously.


5 posted on 01/12/2022 11:48:47 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: PoliticallyShort
Stop the mail in voting. It will ALWAYS be subject to cheating.

We have to get back to what is the American way...you get your a** in gear and get to the polls.

6 posted on 01/12/2022 12:01:20 PM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; azishot; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; ..

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excellent post


7 posted on 01/12/2022 12:05:45 PM PST by bitt ( <img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: All

In November 2021, Americans gave Biden a negative 36 - 53 percent job approval rating

Then Biden made a rousing speech about those horrid J6 people “threatening democracy.”

Et voila..... today Biden has an even LOWER negative 33 - 53 percent job approval rating,


8 posted on 01/12/2022 12:30:26 PM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: PoliticallyShort

Here we have a president who constantly needs to distance himself from views and relationships which have come to seem morally toxic in the span of just one lifetime. You would think that experience might make him more circumspect about declaring what future generations will think of today’s political debates. Not so.
***Good writin’ ✍


9 posted on 01/12/2022 12:33:52 PM PST by Kevmo (I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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To: PoliticallyShort

Biden is not a BA, MS or PHD. He is n ASS!(Cum Laude)


10 posted on 01/12/2022 12:57:08 PM PST by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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To: PoliticallyShort

The party that supported slavery, Jim Crow, lynching of blacks, and still supports killing preborn people, sexual perversion, and the mutilation of children’s genitals. Not my party.


11 posted on 01/12/2022 3:01:23 PM PST by libertylover (Our BIGGEST problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: BenLurkin
Nobody takes the senile pedophile seriously.

Perhaps, but it's still, "Stroke of the pen, law of the land. Kinda cool."...

12 posted on 01/13/2022 9:11:39 AM PST by null and void (81 million votes ≠ 81 million voters)
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