Posted on 01/14/2022 4:18:31 AM PST by Kaslin
"The next few days ... will mark a turning point in this nation's history," said resident Joe Biden in his Atlanta speech to reframe the debate in Congress on voting rights legislation and the filibuster.
He went on: "Will we choose democracy over autocracy, light over shadows, justice over injustice? ... I know where I stand. ... I will defend ... our democracy against all enemies -- foreign and, yes, domestic."
And on this issue of light over shadows, good versus evil:
"Where will the institution of the United States Senate stand? ...
"Will you stand against voter suppression? Yes or no? ... Will you stand against election subversion? Yes or no? Will you stand for democracy? Yes or no?"
"I ask every elected official in America: How do you want to be remembered? ... 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?"
Reaction was swift. "So much for unifying the country and working across the aisle," said Sen. Mitt Romney.
"Pure demagoguery," said Sen. Mitch McConnell: "The world saw our sitting commander in chief propagandize against his own country to a degree that would have made Pravda blush."
"Perhaps the president went a little too far in his rhetoric," said the Democratic Whip Sen. Dick Durbin. CARTOONS | Steve Kelley View Cartoon
The Rev. Al Sharpton dissented, describing Biden's speech, which he had urged the president to make, as "monumental."
Well, we shall see.
If Biden's purpose was to add Senate votes to build a majority for ending the filibuster on voting rights, this looks like a loser. Implying that 52 senators, including Democrats Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, are racists for the stand they have taken on keeping the filibuster does not seem like the way to bring them around.
As for calling the Republican opposition, all 50 senators, racists whose position on voting rights recalls the segregationists of the early 1960s, that would appear only to solidify and harden their opposition.
But perhaps Biden is after another game here. For what this speech did succeed in doing is to temporarily change the subject.
For months, Biden has been bedeviled by crises for which he has had no effective response:
The Afghanistan withdrawal debacle. The bleeding southern border where America is being daily invaded. The surge in shootings, killings and flash-mob, smash-and-grab robberies of elite stores.
A soaring inflation rate that is suddenly at a 40-year high. The possibility the Fed will start raising interest rates to combat it, which could tank the economy by the 2022 elections. The new surge, two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, in infections, hospitalizations and deaths.
Then, there are the polls, all of which show Biden underwater, and one, Quinnipiac, which shows his approval plummeting to 33%.
What Biden's rant against the alleged racism of his former Senate colleagues does, then, is reframe the stakes of the voting rights debate, and change the issue from Biden's transparent failures to the character of his opponents who threaten our "democracy" itself.
Put starkly, what panicked Democrats and their fearful media allies are about now is reframing a 2022 election they look certain to lose into an either/or choice election: Do you wish to see democracy destroyed, or protected, because democracy's survival is on the table now.
Consider the 180-degree turn Biden has just taken:
In his inaugural address, Biden was preaching unity and his resolve to bring it about:
Today, on this January day, my whole soul is in this:
"Bringing America together.
"Uniting our people.
"And uniting our nation.
"I ask every American to join me in this cause."
Now, at the end of his first year, Biden is saying we are not one nation or one people. Our adversaries on this bill, including presumably all 52 senators, belong in the company of slave-holders, segregationists and rogue cops of yesteryear who used horses, dogs and clubs to beat civil rights protesters.
The change in roles is not easy for Biden to bring off. For Biden's rant in Atlanta seems wildly out of character with the man we knew.
For was it not Biden himself who, during his transition, spoke warmly of old friends, colleagues and mentors from the 1970s -- Sens. James Eastland of Mississippi, Strom Thurmond of South Carolina and Robert Byrd of West Virginia -- all in their time unapologetic segregationists.
The odd thing about Biden's new position is that, in the short run, it is a loser; he is not going to get a majority for voting rights or for ending the filibuster this way. And, in the long run, it is simply unsustainable.
For if Biden loses the House and Senate this fall, would not the victorious Republicans exact retribution on an unpopular lame-duck president they once thought of as Good Old Joe but who put them in a box with Bull Connor?
Jo Jo acts like he has given up ice cream for recreational drugs. The U.S. is NOT a democracy. The song is The Battle Hymn of the REPUBLIC, not The Battle Hymn of the “DEMOCRACY”.
Bull Connor and George Wallace were both Democrats.
Poor old Joe, since our schools no longer teach real history, no one under 65 even knows who Bull Connor is.
Nothing draws a nation together like an attack on the homeland by a foreign power and/or a Presidential State Funeral. I cannot help but wonder, which the Democrats & their Republican allies are planning.
Biden’s speeches reveal what he thinks of Americans
He is deeply disappointed in the country and annoyed with those who live here.
Biden doesn’t cajole voters. He harangues and berates them. He patronizes them and issues threats.
“You people caused the corona pandemic. You’re stupid and selfish.”
During his entire first year in office, Joe Biden did virtually nothing to improve the actual lives of actual American citizens. And he didn’t because he didn’t even really try.
Making voters happy is not a feature of the Biden equity agenda......inflicting pain, dispensing rough justice.....and wallowing in victimhood is.
GWB’s speechwriter penned a scathing Op-Ed criticizing Biden for repeatedly morphing into a “victim” and invoking son Beau’s death...... but only when his political chips are down.
Op ed: “Biden is not a Gold Star father and should stop playing one on TV’...........
Beau Biden was a noncombatant lawyer reservist .......he died 15 years ago of brain cancer after returning home from a one year tour as JAG in Iraq.
Biden himself had six draft deferments for school and marriage during the Vietnam War, he never served.”
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..... Biden sunk to an even LOWER negative 33 - 53 percent job approval rating.
But wait.....Biden’s Georgia speech on Democrap voting laws that legalize fraud indicated he thinks voters are filth. Biden must be obeyed......or else.
And his new numbers are?.......snx.
True.
And MLK and Rosa Parks were Republicans.
We cannot say if the 2020 election was rigged or fair.
There has been no independent audit of the results allowed.
I do not trust politicians who tell me it was fair or that it was rigged. Both want to manipulate their base for personal gain.
Supposedly, a record number of votes were cast in the 2020 election. There is no evidence of voter suppression based on that.
The Democrats do not hold a majority in the Senate.
The Democrats cannot attract enough votes to pass the federal takeover of elections.
The Democrats want to end the filibuster to ram their federal takeover of elections down our throats.
Fine.
When Republicans take over, we can ram Voter ID through, repeal the rest of the federal rules and turn election authority back to the states with a simple majority vote.
Then put the filibuster back in place.
President Meat Puppet only says what’s written in front of him. Until you get rid of Ron Klain, Valerie Jarrett, Susan Rice, and their staffs, it’s only going to get worse.
This may be a bad time for Meat Puppet, but his handlers are happy with the results and looking forward to the US becoming a vassal state of Red China.
True.
And MLK and Rosa Parks were Republicans.
When democrats like "KKK LBJ" realized the black vote could be had they rushed to the front of the civil rights movement and pretended it was theirs. Then democrats steered the civil rights movement toward violent thugs, away from black protectors who had safeguarded blacks through slavery and Jim Crow and moved in with 'Great Society' crap that broke up black culture.
It is not business as usual Pat. They stole a landslide election and more importantly half the country knows it. They stole it with an evil alliance with Communist China using germ warfare. The penalty for treason is death. Damn right they are desperate and scared!
This was an Obama speech all the way. Biden is just mouthing Obama’s words.
Just another racist Democrat. You know, just like Josef Robinette Biden.
“I cannot help but wonder, which the Democrats & their Republican allies are planning.”
Looking at the new huge concrete barriers that are going up around the grounds of our White House may be a clue as to what is coming.
“And MLK and Rosa Parks were Republicans.”
Did both of them remain Republicans or did they become Democrats in the 1950’s or 1960’s?
The reason I ask, is because my County Republican website has a “Rah Rah MLK” biography up. Which is weird he if died a registered democrat.(I don’t know the answer, I didn’t read the biography)
We usually like Party registration to move the “other way,” it helps win elections. You know from former democrat to the Republican camp.
Stalin’s DNC imperils the American republic.
The problem with this plan is winning that election. How do you do that when they can steal them all? This is why the RATs are pushing this. They want nothing less than a permanent dictatorship . They crossed the Rubicon by stealing a landslide election. They must sieze power permanently or face retribution. Using Germ Warfare in a pact with a known enemy to do it only makes their situation even more dire.
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