The family of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has been turning up the heat on Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) as the senators clutch onto the filibuster, which dooms any chance of passing Democrats’ voting rights legislation.
OT, sorry, but I keep saying this and occasionally get some sneering pushback, as if I don’t grasp the obvious. If you don’t believe me, then, believe the conservative voices saying it ever louder:
I’m glad those two are being publicly shamed even if they still refuse to do the right thing. There’s a price to be paid for helping mitch and the repubs in their efforts to disenfranchise and silence the voice of so many Americans. I just wish the price were higher.
Ha! She’s contemptible but she’s been exasperated and done with him for a long time and for reasons that aren’t wrong. It’s a question of being willing to say it and have enough guts to stick with it. Liz Cheney comes to mind.
Sinemanchin “support” the voting rights bill. They just don’t support passing it. Manchin is all in for the filibuster, about which, as he made publicly clear, he knows next to nothing.
In a sane country the national media would be pointing and laughing at these “silly and perfidious” people (thanks JM) 24/7. Which is to say, in a sane country, they wouldn’t exist. In this country, they have a death grip, pun intended, on the fate of the republic and democracy.
These two Democrats have decided that it is much more important to them to protect the voting rights of the minority on the Senate floor than to protect the voting rights of minorities in this great country of ours, the minorities that made it possible for them to be in the position that they’re currently in,” Representative James E. Clyburn, Democrat of South Carolina and the majority whip, said on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday. “So, I hope, but I don’t think, that we will change their mind.”