After President Joe Biden’s big voting rights speech in Georgia Tuesday, Senate Democrats are mapping out a strategy to hold votes on rules changes.
Schumer and Biden walk the Green Mile.
So your world view is based on King’s “damned if you do. Damned if you don’t” novel?
No wonder you express such Misery.
Any chance of one or two gooper senators jumping in?
Will butterflies fly out my butt?
Schumer to Manchinema:
“Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”
Manchinema to Schumer:
Well, you’ve got to respect Schumer’s persistance, if not his effectiveness.
The Shelby decision just made it easier for racist Republicans to vote that way. That and Obama being POTUS pushed their racist base over the edge.
As an Arizonan, I can’t tell you how upset I was to see Mark Kelly go all mealy mouthed about the filibuster a few days ago.
The pharmaceutical companies have been buying millions of dollars worth of ads for Sinema here, and a lot of them are encouraging people to let Kelly know he needs to be more like Sinema. They keep talking about what a “brave independent” voice she is in Washington.
Hey big pharma, I need an anti-emetic!
This is just another battle in what will be a long war. Let’s be patient and let things work themselves out.
I really think this whole thing is to put Manchinema on the record, with a vote on MLK Day, that they prioritize the filibuster over civil rights. If they manage to reach an accommodation between now and then, great. If not, they take all the blame and the Senate muddles forward towards an election that will hopefully make their obstruction irrelevant.
Agree to the first part, but not the second. We the people have a role in this drama too.
Schumer gave us our cue: tell Manchin and Sinema that nice, respectable suburbanites feel passionately about voting rights and ask them why they’re not on board yet.
The hands-off treatment of the 50 Republicans has been remarkable and a stunning display of control.
I think persistence is an underrated quality in politics.
Also, while Sen. Schumer is no Nancy Pelosi, I can hardly fault him for that. I wouldn’t call him ineffective.
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
The two goopers will jump in after butterflies fly out your butt. Not before they fly, not while they fly . . . only afterwards. And only on the condition that every single butterfly had a safe landing and enjoyed his or her flight.
Said the rock to the dripping water.
The House would strip out the [NASA] bill’s guts, replace it with the Freedom to Vote Act and send it to the Senate, where it could be taken up more quickly.
First off how dare you.
Secondly, WHAT. If the name and the shell are the same, you can just pop in another set of text and pretend it’s the same bill? Good god our system is dumb. Why doesn’t every bill begin as the Puppy Protection Act then?
Biden spent time contrasting today’s GOP with yesteryears’ GOP. Why do that if McConnell gets no attention about this…'cuz reasons, Murika, etc?
The idea is procedurally zany, but not ultimately all that important. Republicans can still filibuster the bill itself.
No question, but getting the bill debated on the floor is way better than its not even getting there at all. (That a motion to proceed can be filibustered may be the most ridiculous thing about Senate rules. You’re keeping debate open on whether or not to debate a bill.)
It’s easier for the media to ignore a bill that doesn’t get to the floor. And the media will treat a cloture vote on the bill as being the same as a vote on the bill, so everyone will be on record.
Manchin and Sinema will vote for cloture, so it’ll be strictly the GOP blocking the bill. Time to get some focus on their intransigence; if they weren’t united against voting rights, Manchinema’s games wouldn’t matter.
I suppose were Schumer allocated a hundred years to wear down Manchin, et al that might be an apt reply.
