Posted on 01/13/2022 8:19:10 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi have hatched a whole new scheme to federalize elections. How? They gutted a NASA bill that had already been passed by the House and had made its way to the Senate floor, stripping out the language and replacing it with language that federalizes our elections.
ACLJ Director of Government Affairs Thann Bennett explained how this bill was stripped down to be used for hyper-partisan legislation:
"Can you imagine being the supporters of that NASA authority bill right now when it is now being used to take over elections, move state control of elections to the federal government? You and I both know how hard it is to move a bill through the legislative process. Imagine getting a bill through the United States Senate and it sitting in the House, may even have enough votes to pass in the House, they call it up and remove all of the language that you care about and put in a federal takeover of elections. . . . That is how insistent Washington D.C. Democrats are in taking over control of the elections. It doesn’t even remove that 60-vote threshold, it just pushes it a couple of days later, but that’s how desperate they are to move it down the line."
Thann added that the substance of the bill is still the same as H.R.1 that we warned you about:
"It is a federal takeover of elections plain and simple. They changed the bill name from S. 1 the For the People Act, now it is numbered S. 2747 the Freedom to Vote Act and they put Joe Manchin’s name on it. They did very little to change the substance of this. The federal government would still be in charge of everything – to voter registration, to voter location, to voter hours, to when those polls have to be open, to ballot box security, redistricting would even be under the purview of the federal government now. I am telling you this is as sweeping as H.R. 1 was, they just changed the name and tried to make it a little bit more palpable. . . . The only thing they did with that sleight of hand was get it to the Senate floor. There will still have to be a vote on whether or not they will change the filibuster to actually get it over the line."
Senator Schumer is pushing to get rid of the filibuster, yet he used to have a very different opinion on the matter. Senator Tom Cotton pointed that out:
"Constitutional scholars will tell us that the reason we have these rules in the Senate – unlimited debate, two-thirds to change the rules, the idea that 60 have to close off debate – is embodied in the spirit and rule of the Constitution. . . . This is what the Constitution is all about, and we all know it. . . . The bottom line is very simple. The ideologues in the Senate want to turn what the Founding Fathers called the cooling saucer of democracy into the rubber stamp of dictatorship. . . . Those are powerful words – but they’re not mine. Every word of my speech today was originally spoken by my esteemed colleague, the senior Senator from New York, Chuck Schumer."
What changed? What changed is that Sen. Schumer and the Left fear the fast-approaching midterm elections, and are terrified of losing their power. They want to federalize elections while they still control the House, Senate, and White House.
Corruption pure and simple. I have become convinced our Government in DC is no longer legitimate and the people of this country need to hold a vote of “no confidence” to clean out Congress.
Say what you want about Manchin, but he’s made it clear he doesn’t respond to being pushed around. Slapping his Mae on the bill seems
Mocking to me and I don’t see him taking it well.
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All theater. Biden, Schumer and Pelosi all know it won’t go anywhere but they’ve made such a big deal, and they owe Jim Clyburn, so they gotta go through the motions. That’s what Biden’s trip to Georgia was all about. I think if they keep pulling this sh!t with Mancion he may just tell them all to go pound sand.
Heard about this today. The other side calls it the “shell bill.”
a bill like this cannot override the constitution
states are in charge
sorry charlie
Is there ever a point where we can speak of what the founding fathers put in the constitution to combat tyranny without getting in trouble for threatening elected officials
That’s the same scam they used to pass Obamacare.
Pelosi knows that trick stone cold; it’s how crap gets rammed through the Legislature in CA without voters knowing until afterward, when it’s too late.
The disgusting practice is called “Gut and Replace” and it’s been used OFTEN to pass one thing and enact something else.
EVERYONE involved should be pushing up daisies by Sunday morning; it’s the very ANTITHESIS of the Oath of Office.
They are running out of time. Even now, closet “moderate” Dems in purplish districts and states must fear going home to campaign. I seriously doubt that the 50 or 48 that they had is really there any more. And if the libs have actually done any good recently, they did unify the Republicans to an amazing degree.
Why are they so desperate? Because they stole a Landslide election! If they lose power they risk retribution. The China Virus was an act of war. They conspired with the enemy. The penalty for treason is death.The traitors are fighting for their stinking lives.
This is fantasy BS and won’t happen. There are gonna be all sorts of antics and breaking news about the bill between now and next Tuesday. Ignore it.
There are two opportunities to block a bill in the Senate via a filibuster. The first opportunity comes when a motion is made to proceed to consider a piece of legislation ÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂàthat is, to open up debate on the bill. Previously, votes on motions to proceed to debate voting rights legislation (both the John Lewis bill and the Manchin sponsored Freedom to Vote bill) failed to get 60 votes, stopping the bills in their tracks.
SchumerÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂs strategy gets around the need for 60 votes just to open debate.
But there has to be a second vote to close debate. And that will still require 60 votes.
When it fails to get 60 votes, Schumer will call for a vote on the nuclear option ÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂàa ruling that 60 votes are not needed to close debate on voting rights legislation. Presumably Manchin and Sinema will vote yea on the motion to close debate. But the question is whether, after that vote falls short of 60, will they support the nuclear option.
when oh when do we lock these scumbags up
Federalized our elections.
Democrat Marxism nearing it even has some democrats scrambling.
kinda how obamacare came about
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