Posted on 01/07/2022 3:31:07 PM PST by bitt
Have Democrats found the issue on which they can break what’s left of Senate traditions and parlay a 50-50 split into partisan domination? It’s far from clear that anything will be enough to move the two recalcitrant members of their caucus — Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., — to change their minds about voting to change the chamber’s rules that require a majority of 60 in order to invoke cloture and end filibusters. But if anything will do it, it might be the claim that passing their game-changing federal voting rights bill is the only way to defend American democracy against Republican insurrectionists.
Manchin and Sinema’s opposition was the rock on which the Biden administration’s effort to pass their trillion-dollar “Build Back Better” spending bill broke in December. The pair felt comfortable resisting presidential pressure as well as a storm of abuse from leftists on legislation that would likely sink an already shaky economy and fuel record inflation.
But with their ambitious spending plans blocked, Democrats are pivoting in the new year to a renewed effort to pass something that is likely even dearer to the hearts of their left-wing base: changing voting laws to make it easier for Democrats to win elections. They are tying the “nuclear option” on the filibuster and passage of voting bills to their attempt to turn the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot into a festival aimed at demonizing all Republicans as “insurrectionist” traitors who present a threat to democracy.
With their cheering section in the corporate media treating “Insurrection Day” observances as if it were a new national holiday and more important than 9/11, they’ve created more leverage that could shift their two holdouts. If it does, that would allow Vice President Kamala Harris’ tie-breaking vote to
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If the Rats get their legislation through, then there is only one thing to do. Beat them at their own game. If it is a choice between destroying America and implementing more socialism, then I will have zero scruples. I have no problem cheating to do the right thing. They started it. We finish it. Fight dirty, every single GD day.
Don’t be fooled by the bait. While everyone is watching the BBB bill, the Dems will be hard at work changing rule by rule, law by law, in each state they can.
Everything that worked in 2016 was compounded in 2020 - so expect that 2022 and 2024 will each be compounded further, especially since nothing from the 2020 election was fixed, changed or modified.
...especially since nothing from the 2020 election was
recognized, fixed, changed or modified.
The Democrats and the Republicans both swear nothing out of
the ordinary happened.
Why would we expect anything to be fixed, changed, or
modified?
for One Party Rule
the democrat party will henceforth be known as THE party
The last time I believed we could vote our way out was 2016.
Bingo
We will never win playing by the rules the Democrats set for Republicans.
I said this right after the 2020 election and Biden was given the White House. Note I did say given not elected to. I’ve been telling anyone who’s interested that the rats found a way to steal a national election and they’re going to turn it around and use it in 2022 to try and steal a lot of the local ones to maintain their majority in the house and get a majority in the Senate.
I said this right after the 2020 election and Biden was given the White House. Note I did say given not elected to. I’ve been telling anyone who’s interested that the rats found a way to steal a national election and they’re going to turn it around and use it in 2022 to try and steal a lot of the local ones to maintain their majority in the house and get a majority in the Senate.
Figures, cheating is the only way Dims can win.
If democrats get this passed it's the end of free elections - the end of our country as we know it.
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