Posted on 01/13/2022 12:13:25 PM PST by 11th_VA
Kyrsten Sinema publicly and bluntly reaffirmed she would not support any change to the filibuster rules on Thursday, effectively killing her party’s hope of passing the most sweeping voting rights protections in a generation.
Sinema took to the Senate floor around noon on Thursday and said she would not support any changes to the filibuster, the Senate rule that requires 60 votes to advance legislation.
“While I continue to support these [voting rights] bills, I will not support separate actions that worsen the underlying disease of division infecting our country,” said Sinema, a first-term Democrat from Arizona.
“We must address the disease itself, the disease of division, to protect our democracy, and it cannot be achieved by one party alone. It cannot be achieved solely by the federal government. The response requires something greater and, yes, more difficult than what the Senate is discussing today.”…
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That bill protects the voting rights of the dead, illegal aliens, and people too lazy to get up off the couch and go to a polling place.
Election fraud enabling would be more accurate.
Yes. It says the same minorities who can get a drivers license or show ID to get into a bar, are too stupid to bring it with them to vote? How insulting! They should be rioting against the insufferable patronizing Democraps who ALWAYS assume minorities are stupid, helpless babies. Why do minorities keep voting these people in?
We allow them to call it voting rights protection which it is anything but.
This brings up an interesting conundrum. 48 Democrat Senators do support ending the filibuster. How will they fair in the next election?
Eligible people of all racial, educational, and financial levels (including minorities) can and do get ID's and open financial accounts for any number of other things. There is no worldly reason (barring natural disaster or personal hardship; i.e. an incapacitating health condition; etc.) for any eligible American not to be able to vote. The only people I know who don't vote are the ones too lazy to get out there and do it.
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