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It's Over: Senate Republicans Defeat Corrupt 'For the People Act'
Townhall ^ | Jun 22, 2021 6:23 PM | Reagan McCarthy

Posted on 06/22/2021 6:15:08 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Senate Republicans torpedoed the "For the People Act," a federal takeover of elections, on Tuesday night. The legislation received 50 affirmative votes along party lines, with no Republican support. Democrats were unable to overcome the GOP filibuster to move forward with the legislation.


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To: bwest

No, not on this type of legislation.

But we’re only 49 right? What D voted against it?


21 posted on 06/22/2021 6:40:33 PM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix) )
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To: LS

50.

Not 49.


22 posted on 06/22/2021 6:42:41 PM PDT by jdsteel ("A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it." Sorry Ben, looks like we blew it.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Biden will still do it through “regulations.”


23 posted on 06/22/2021 6:44:13 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Praise God and pass the ammo.


24 posted on 06/22/2021 6:45:34 PM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Why Schumer brought this up for a vote puzzled me for a bit until I listened to the enemy media a bit, and now it makes sense.

The "strategery" has been to sacrifice this bill as justification for eliminating the filibuster, and by going full retard woke.

I expect they will pour it on and try to ruin this 4th of July.

25 posted on 06/22/2021 6:47:01 PM PDT by SecondAmendment (This just proves my latest theory ... LEFTISTS RUIN EVERYTHING !)
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To: ImpBill

So it’s not dead?


26 posted on 06/22/2021 6:48:30 PM PDT by caww ( )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Must have occurred to them that if the law was passed there would be no more Republicans in Congress.


27 posted on 06/22/2021 6:48:49 PM PDT by Spok (There are many more things that frighten us than can cause us harm.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Dems are moderating with an eye toward the midterms. Little to none of the radical agenda is going to get done. No court packing. No DC statehood, etc. They’ll continue using the administrative state and executive orders to appease their base.


28 posted on 06/22/2021 6:49:57 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Like hell its over.

They’ll try to get the filibuster overturned and then take a bill like this up again. They got abt a year and a half to do it.


29 posted on 06/22/2021 6:57:07 PM PDT by crz
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"It's Over: Senate Republicans Defeat Corrupt 'For the People Act'..."

.... Don't kid yourself ..... It's NEVER Over ......

30 posted on 06/22/2021 6:57:29 PM PDT by R_Kangel ("A nation of sheep will beget a nation ruled by wolves")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

A Federal takeover of elections is unconstitutional from start to finish. Wonder why no one has contested it on those grounds. The Constitution has to be changed first.


31 posted on 06/22/2021 7:13:57 PM PDT by odawg
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Pray they cut off the evil monster’s head.


32 posted on 06/22/2021 7:15:15 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation πŸ™πŸ»πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Now that manchin stepped in the dog crap hes certain to keep tracking it back into the senate chambers again and again.


33 posted on 06/22/2021 7:19:15 PM PDT by patriot torch (Ashlie Babbitt-say her name)
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To: odawg

“A Federal takeover of elections is unconstitutional from start to finish. Wonder why no one has contested it on those grounds. The Constitution has to be changed first.”

That’s ADORABLE Civics 101 and while you may be right, it would help you and the many others here to understand that Democrats AND THEIR JUDGES simply don’t give a shit about the Constitution when it gets in their way of imposing their dictatorship on this country. The ONLY use they even have for the Constitution is to use it DESTROY conservatives who might get in their way, such as saying that ‘free speech’ is their ‘Constitutional Right’ even when the speech is calling for violent overthrow of our government.

The bottom line is that if the Democrats ever get the VOTES they need in Congress, and control the White House, THEY WILL get what they want, and no damn piece of paper will stop them. We need to ACCEPT that fact, and stop wasting our time even referring to the Constitution. For our side, it means everything, for them, it’s a JOKE.

...so if people here really want to stop them, then SUCK IT UP and vote Republican in November elections and remember that even the WORST RINOS, including Murkowski, Romney, and Collins are against the destruction of our our electoral system (as they showed today)...while Manchin and EVERY other Democrat is on THEIR SIDE.


34 posted on 06/22/2021 7:37:33 PM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

I agree, the left will never give up. At least we’re done with this for now. But I also agree with others, it’s way past time to vote out the RINOs and get true conservatives into the Senate in their places.


35 posted on 06/22/2021 7:46:00 PM PDT by ducttape45 ("Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people." Proverbs 14:34)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Never think “it is over”.


36 posted on 06/22/2021 7:46:45 PM PDT by lastchance
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To: odawg

Did not have to be changed to let the ineligible Kenyan from Indonesia in.


37 posted on 06/22/2021 7:51:00 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Votes like these leave politicians wondering who’s holding the bag.

It’s wonderful.


38 posted on 06/22/2021 8:12:39 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

“The left never give up.”

Never.

I credit them only with persistence and commitment.


39 posted on 06/22/2021 8:15:16 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This battle was won, but the war is continuing. We need to fight until we get them defeated.


40 posted on 06/22/2021 8:21:48 PM PDT by ConservaTeen (Rush, this young conservative will miss you. I'll miss your talent...)
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