The filibuster has a great history, southern Democrats (soon to become Dixiecrats, now republicans) used it to stop civil rights, anti-lynching laws, recognition of Black accomplishments etc for over a century. Yep let’s keep this MF alive.
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Biden tells DeJoy you’re fired. The new guy shows up and says Security is here to escort you out. Who exactly will do what exactly? Name names and outline the action. Is a board member going to drive over and stand in the doorway and say you shall not pass?
To us, as liberals/progressives, yes. But to the oligarchs and others in the “rentier class”, this is some scary animating shit. And, lets face it, these folks are magnitudes more politically powerful than you or I. It shouldn’t be that way, but there it is-the constitution embraces “property”-and every president, whether Republican or Democrat inherits this system as a base level. The problem is with the system itself and not any one president. What was the term? The “Green Lantern” Theory of the presidency.
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Blacks make up less than 4% of the population in Arizona and West Virginia. Manchild and Cinnamon are that cynical.
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Also known as dealing with reality as it is and not how you would like it to be. By contrast, there is another group of Democrats, many on this site, who, no matter how bad or discouraging the news is, sit around waiting for any little crumb of hope to be tossed to them. They parse and dissect every statement to find a possibility that the no they heard really means maybe or even code language for yes.
Schumer needs to hold the vote on rule change for voting rights so Manchin and Sinema can kill it. Then we can move on and spare many this cycle of fantasy delusion and mental anguish.
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One day, maybe a long time from now, people studying this moment in U.S. history will say that when Senators Manchin and Sinema could have chosen to stand up in the breach to prevent a crisis in our democracy, they chose to sit down and watch Trump and his enablers bring it crashing down.
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It just goes against everything the party tries to stand for and against who our actual voting base is, because it’s African American voters. I am not saying that either one needs to leave the party at the moment. I don’t want power to shift back to Mitch. But I we really need to elect some more Democratic senators.
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Think just Warnock in 2022.
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I recall not long ago that we were all led to believe that Biden had to nominate one or two more board members. If I recall correctly, there was an opening or two. This would have given the board the power (and votes) to oust DeJoy. This was the action but I guess it didn’t turn out well or Biden got outmaneuvered. We haven’t heard much since because what I’ve come to realize is that failure tends to go unmentioned.
Excellent piece today from Marcy Wheeler @EmptyWheel regarding the lazy, perfunctory, misinterpretation from journalists who can’t or won’t record the actual facts in political reporting. They are writing about subjects that they have no depth in and recording whatever spews out of the mouth of the current subject; no facts necessary here.
It’s even got a name: access journalism… verification not required
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Because the response from the GOP would be, “You can’t even get all 50 Democrats to sign-on to this election stealing gambit, why would we help you pass your unconstitutional, federal power grab?” We can argue all day long that the reason Manchin and Sinema won’t support it is because of the rules and blah, blah, blah, but all anyone is going to hear is that Dems can’t get enough of their own to pass the measure and are blaming the GOP.
Look at it another way. Complaining that the GOP won’t support this bill is akin to the GOP complaining that the Dems wouldn’t give them the votes to pass their “Obamacare reform” bill. For me, it just comes across like we’re whining that Republicans won’t do their opponents’ job for them. As much as I know this isn’t that, the two bills are not even remotely the same, it’s still true that if you’re explaining you’re losing. There’s no way to effectively explain to voters that Manchin and Sinema’s refusal to move on voting rights is completely different than the GOPs. It all looks the same.
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The 2 holdouts on the filibuster have convinced themselves that they are heroically saving something, something. What they apparently fail to realize is that they are saving nothing and at their own expense. When democracy fails it will be on their heads. The Republican majority will abolish the filibuster on Day 1 of their reign of terror, McConnell’s fake promises notwithstanding. They will have sacrificed everything for nothing. Will the Republicans then embrace them? Not for one nanosecond as they will still have the taint of being Democrats on them. Manchin and Sinema’s names will certainly be in history books but they will be remembered as being the ego-driven tools that they are showing themselves to be and their families will carry their disgraceful legacy.
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Describing Manchin and Sinema as gullible is very generous.
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He doesn’t have that authority due to the way the USPS is organized, and Biden isn’t the type to cross those lines.
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Manchin and Sinema are just exercising the fullness of the co-equal branch of the Office of Co-President to stop an out of control and divisive Joe Biden.
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You are absolutely right. I changed it. Thx!
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Fight who?
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Sinema/Manchin intransigence. And their epic bonehead devaluation of voting. Those two, I think, do not want Americans to hold honest elections anymore than the goddamned republican fascist death cult does. I used to have some small respect for the Goobers but not anymore/ And Sinema/Manchine are a sneeze away from being part of that camp in my estimation.
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There has been little said about the Thursday evening meeting of Manchin and Sinema at the WH
Correction: that I am aware of
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Dog whistles.