House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) dug down on the distinction between the For the People Act and the John Lewis Act in a letter to her House colleagues, though the message seems tailor-made for Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV).
Yesterday I wondered why we couldn’t stop the push for the For the People Act and start working to pass the John Lewis bill. Now I know why we can’t.
So we’re back to the immovable Joe Manchin. sigh
What is it going to take? Lincoln had way less trouble getting the Constitution amended with the 13th.
Reminder that Joe Manchin was for it before he was against it.
Yeah. We ought to be able to hold legislators to that. If they co-sponsor a bill then by god it’s theirs and they have voted for it and they can’t start this cha cha with their vote.
We’re obviously going nowhere fast, so Schumer is correct to put the bills up for a vote and get it over with.
Ds will have to abandon the legislative model of government and simply focus on partisan electoral politics between now and 2022. Blame the GOP for destroying government, pass as many judges as possible with minimum consultation, do lots of investigations into 1/6 and the Trump years. The names Manchin and Sinema must never be uttered, since they will now be irrelevant, neither being up for election next year. Coons, the bipartisan squirrel, must be told to sit down and shut up. Focus everything on expanding the number of D senators in 2022 by two.
This being the only viable way forward, I think we need brand new congressional leadership, one that can be trusted to acknowledge and actually do something about the GOP destruction of our institutions and democracy. Schumer, Pelosi, etc come from a different era, and their experiences have been of decades of losing elections to the GOP. They can’t begin to conceive of what it would mean to do adversarial politics. We’ve seen that in their reaction to 1/6, which they have responded to with legislative performance art, as per usual. Time to move into the future and into battle. If not now, when?
More broadly,
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Simply rip a page from the Mitch McConnell playbook and start passing legislation and approving judges by a simple majority vote. I confess to not knowing the exact procedure necessary but Republicans had no trouble confirming Amy Covid Barrett in a pinch with Q-tip breaking the tie.
Demers has emerged as a key figure in the widening scandal over the Justice Department’s pursuit of records from journalists and political opponents as part of a leak investigation.
Nor will anything logical, legal, ethical, equitable, or moral.
Unhappily ever after…
He’s right.
Even QAnon has begun to unravel.
Nice idea, but it will never work until Manchin and Sinema start doing their F*KING JOBS which is to work for the benefit of the American people. And if preserving the free and fair right to vote does not fit that description, then I don’t know what does. They need to stop moninf and groaning about bipartisanship when it is clear the Moscow Mitch the Retug Senators have no intent on supporting anything the Dems put forth.
Remember, "One-hundred percent of our focus is on stopping this new administration," McConnell said.
Um, was Q ever really raveled in the first place?
No but they know now who it was. That took the mystique away.
And there has been a push on among evangelical preachers to get their congregants out of the cult.
Pelosi is a FOX.
In more ways than one.
She just hemmed in Joe.
Now The People make their voices known
Along with the folks in the negotiations
Yes she did. She locked that last doorway he was talking about using - the John Lewis Bill. No exits now, Joe.
they know now who it was
I obviously missed something. Who was it?
Pelosi has shut down that idea by emphasizing the months of work left to do on H.R.4, including congressional hearings to create a record that can be used to to fortify it against likely legal challenges.
Understated point.
Republicans will bring a lawsuit against HR4 before the ink is even dry. Pelosi and House Dems are formally preparing the record of “which states/counties/cities are still engaging in VRA discrimination and, therefore, should be subject to preclearance” for the SCOTUS.
Since Robert’s is no longer the swing vote, I’m pessimistic that any preclearance formula can pass muster in front of the current SCOTUS.