Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA), one of Congress’ most outspoken advocates for changing the filibuster to pass Democrats’ voting rights legislation, on Martin Luther King Jr. Day pressed the senators who have poured cold water on filibuster reform to understand the urgency of the situation amid waves of state GOP anti-voting laws.
For the GQP, it’s an 1865 moment…
Warnock is right.
How low we have fallen…from Mean Joe and the Coke commercial and Magic Mike with the slam dunk to:
We don’t want people like them to vote.
I honestly believe that the Other Side sees nothing inconsistent with this.
I could have used examples in law, medicine, education, etc. but the idolization of sports figures makes the inconsistency more glaring and hypocritical
Sadly, Senator Warnock’s sentient comments will not move the needle for the cons-tards
Yeah, and they’re the ones opposing Lincoln.
The party of John Wilkes Booth.
It’s also a 1965 moment for them since it’s when the fulmination of the southern strategy began. Goldwater and Reagan opposed the civil rights and voting acts while the Rockefeller types supported them.
And for Sinemanchin, it’s an “All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up” moment.
If Schumer gets the voting rights bill to the floor for a vote, we’ll have a repeat of Sinema giving her inane thumb’s down again.
Senator Warnock frames this perfectly.
“We have the tools to do it. It’s a defining moral moment in America, and everybody needs to show where they stand.”
From the Article:
[Warnock’s remarks come a day before the Senate is set to reconvene on Tuesday, when Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) plans to have the chamber take up the voting rights legislation, which GOP senators are posed to kill via the filibuster. Schumer also aims to have a debate over changing the filibuster rules to bypass the Republicans’ block, but he does not currently have the votes to enact the proposed changes thanks to Sinema and Manchin.]
(1) The original voting rights protections were weakened.
(2) The GOP has passed restrictive state laws
(3) We need to enact these protections up for a vote
Is she balancing a book on her head? Perfect posturing.
Focus less on Sinema and Manchin and more on the point of the legislation passed in Georgia and elsewhere. Voter suppression laws aim to block entire groups from access to voting and therefore the benefits of full citizenship.
We need to drag down GOP who won’t vote for this. Never too early…
“…we’ve seen the mushrooming of all of these terrible voter suppression laws all across the country.”
Critically, Warnock fails to see these laws are not terrible from the point of view of 52 Senators.
Manchin and Sinema don’t care.
If the Founders had wanted everyone to have full citizenship they would have written it into the Constitution.
“We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” ― Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from the Birmingham Jail
Autocorrect is not your friend.
I hope you’re right and that the result for that side is the same.
