Democrat Desperation Has Now Become Dangerous by David Catron

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Democrat Desperation Has Now Become Dangerous
Their panic is driving the unconstitutional attempt to seize control of national elections.
by David Catron
January 12, 2022, 10:28 PM


President Biden’s “voting rights” speech in Atlanta has been widely criticized for dishonesty and demagoguery, but its real significance involves what it told us about the increasing panic that pervades the Democratic Party. Biden’s sudden pivot from the Build Back Better Act (BBB) to “election reform” betrays a very real fear that his party will lose its tiny majorities in Congress unless they seize control of our national elections. For well over two centuries the states have played the primary role in the administration of congressional elections. Yet Biden and the Democrats now insist that this time-tested system somehow constitutes a threat to democracy itself.

This is self-evidently false, considering that it is the same system that gave the Democrats their small but all-too-real majorities in the House and the Senate. Yet, in his Tuesday speech, Biden portrayed this purported menace in weirdly Manichean terms: “Will we choose democracy over autocracy, light over shadow, justice over injustice?” The specific bills that Biden says will deliver us from evil are the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S.4) and the Freedom to Vote Act (S.2747), both of which are stalled in the Senate due to their inability to garner the 60 votes necessary to overcome Republican filibusters. Predictably, Biden reversed his oft-stated opposition to vitiating Senate filibuster rules:

I believe that the threat to our democracy is so grave that we must find a way to pass these voting rights bills, debate them, vote. Let the majority prevail. And if that bare minimum is blocked, we have no option but to change the Senate rules, including getting rid of the filibuster for this.… The filibuster has been weaponized and abused…. Today I’m making it clear: To protect our democracy, I support changing the Senate rules, whichever way they need to be changed.

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[Fishrrman]

Romney has already stated that he won't vote to change the filibuster rules.

But... that still leaves Murkowski and Collins.
What will they do...?

[Cyber Liberty]

Romney has already stated that he won't vote to change the filibuster rules.

But... that still leaves Murkowski and Collins.
What will they do...?

It takes 51 votes to make the procedural change, and the VP cannot cast a tie-breaker on procedural changes.  As of now, the Rats only have 48 votes, and if Manchin & Sinema stick to their positions (Not a sure thing), two RINOs can vote for it and it still only gives them 50 votes.

The Motion would then fail.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

It takes 51 votes to make the procedural change, and the VP cannot cast a tie-breaker on procedural changes.  As of now, the Rats only have 48 votes, and if Manchin & Sinema stick to their positions (Not a sure thing), two RINOs can vote for it and it still only gives them 50 votes.

The Motion would then fail.

Good to know