President Joe Biden honored Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday with a speech that tied the civil rights icon’s legacy to the importance of passing Democrats’ sweeping voting rights reform, which currently endangered by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) refusing to change the filibuster.
Winners win ! Biden is on a loosing streak pushing voting rights legislation that does not have a snowballs prayer in heck. That makes him look a looser no matter how good the cause. And loosers keep on loosing- no surprise there. Biden and the Dems have to- HAVE TO- rack up a bunch of wins on winnable topics.
Are you calling President Biden a loosey-goosey?
In other news, filed under “OH SH*T!!!”:
Biden’s fault, as he just can’t get along with the ever cooperative, diversity-loving, equal rights champions GQP.
Sad!
He’s just not bipartisany enough!
He should take a page from Obama – have the minority’s leadership over for drinks, or what not.
I’m sure it’d work out just as well.
You know who else is a loser? Those who can’t spell “lose” and its variants. Biden has a political requirement to publicly fight for deserving legislation. Better to fight and lose and be remembered for having fought and what you fought for, than to cede the field uncontested.
This holiday makes me sad I missed the Lincoln-King-Frederick Douglass debates when ESPN televised them. I hear Johnny Unitas is doing great things these days.
Biden should really hammer that MLK himself decried a minority of Senators trying to use the filibuster to block the original Voting Rights Act.
The base of the Dem party is black voters. They are the ones being most directly targeted by GOP voter suppression laws. Dems have to get their backs and they will get the Dems’ backs at the ballot box. That’s how it works.
News flash: Ballot boxes will be accessible by those with a gate pass and current with their dues at the tennis club.
It looks as though Schumer will commence debate on the voting rights bill tomorrow, which means that Manchin and Sinema are providing their votes to start debate, but will not support a filibuster change to alter the vote threshold to end debate from 60 to 51. This puts Manchin and Sinema in a position to take the blame for the failure of the bill. They could just block the opening of debate and avoid it, but they’re not.
I wonder if Manchin and Sinema are talking to the WH about a scaled back BBB that focuses on climate change credits, tax rate adjustments, and ACA fixes. That would probably be under 1T, still be one the most significant pieces of legislation in the past decade and could get done before the SOTU.
“I know where I stand. And it’s time for every elected official in America to make it clear where they stand,” Biden said on Monday.
It takes a Villages to steal an election…
Uh, I think that’s the opposite. The bill will fail due to the GOP filibustering, and that will be the message. That manchinema refused to lift a finger to prevent that filibuster will be buried somewhere on page 31 below the tide tables. This way they get to look like they’re supporting the bill, when they’re actually not.
Somewhat OT
He may as well have been asked how to rewire a lamp.
Pass an amendment, of course, to declare him El Presidentissimo for Life. But even he knows you can’t say that.
Does he know that? I’m doubtful. All that’s in his empty melon is past grievance. The future doesn’t exist other than he thinks about his next berder.
