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| Grumpy old men. The two white nationalists in Washington vow to oppose the For the People Act. |
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Behind closed doors, the Republican Party is scrambling to find ways to sink the John Lewis For The People's Act, otherwise known as HR 1.
Republicans long sought to undermine the election results by claiming that rampant voter fraud happened in the closely watched races in Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Nevada.
President Joe Biden rebuilt the Blue Wall and picked off Georgia and Arizona, two states Washed Up 45 was hoping to capture in his failed reelection bid.
Now with Stacey Abrams mounting a voter registration campaign and Jaime Harrison leading the Democratic National Convention, the Democrats are mounting an offense to take on Republicans going into the midterms.
While the far-right is distracted with Biden stumbling on the stairs, trying to keep transgender girls from playing female sports, crying over Dr. Seuss pulling books, Warner Media canceling Pepe Le Pew, Disney slapping warnings on The Muppets Show classics, Hasbro scrapping Mr. from Potato Head and Barack Obama's NCAA brackets, the Democrats have managed to push forward gun reform, voting reform, a tax hike proposal for infrastructure and possible changes to the filibuster.
The House has passed numerous bills and they're getting stalled in the Senate. Despite Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) being the Minority Leader, he still has power to hold up legislation. The Democrats are getting fed up with the blatant hypocrisy and games being played.
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| President Biden wants Congress to pass bipartisan legislation. However if Republicans continue to obstruct it, he will encourage the eliminating of the filibuster in the Senate. |
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is hoping to convince Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE), Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) and Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) to support abolishing the filibuster.
Biden has hinted that the filibuster needs to go but stopped short of saying it. He said that the rules need to be changed to make any attempts at a filibuster be done through live speaking on the issue and not having staffers on floor or senators reading something outside of the proposal.
H.R. 1 seeks to abolish hurdles to voting, reform the role of money in politics and tighten federal ethic rules. The key proposals to the bill is to overhaul the nation's election systems. It will allo no-excuse mail voting, at least 15 days for early voting, automatic voter registration, restoring voting rights to those who served time in the iron college. It will hopefully acknowledge the U.S. territories. The five occupied U.S. territories cannot vote in the presidential elections. H.R. 1 hopefully will change the narrative.
Republicans oppose it because according to McConnell it's a "power grab" that could tilt the election for years to come.
McConnell rammed through Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. He has no room to talk about tilting. He packed the federal courts with inexperienced jurists and cronies. He delayed Barack Obama's federal nominees including Merrick Garland. Garland, the Attorney General of the United States was nominated to be on the Supreme Court. He was held up by McConnell during a presidential election year. Barrett was quickly pushed in a presidential election year. It was a factor to why McConnell lost the Republican majority.
With COVID-19 cases slowly declining, the Democrats are hoping to get the country back on the right track.
Republicans fear voter turnout. Their policies are not really popular. With religion on the decline, the attempts to push forward legislation to favor a radical Christian base is not going to work this time around. The talks about nationalism isn't going to work. Cheering on foreign dictators and corrupt leaders will make Republicans look unpatriotic. Crying about cancel culture while trying to cancel out voting, transgender rights and immigrants is going to fail as well.
The insurrection is a testament of why it's very important for the Democrats to pass legislation to change the status quo.
Out of the last eight elections, Democrats running for president won the popular vote. Only Al Gore, John Kerry and Hillary Clinton won the popular vote but failed to win electoral college.
ABC News reports that Republicans fear the passage of this law will damage their chances in 2022 and 2024.
"If the Democrats pass H.R. 1, it's going to be absoluting devastating for Republicans in this country," said Jay Williams, a Republican strategist in Georgia, a state that is trying to pass voter restrictions.
"They're just going to basically just shaft so many Republicans in places where they would actually have opportunities to pick up.
Schumer warns Republicans that the House bill will be on the floor and any attempts to filibuster or block it will force their hand.
So it's appears the time has come to eliminate the filibuster. The Republicans have abused it to a point where now it's worth the risk to change it. The filibuster is a relic of the Jim Crow era. An era that Republicans seem to cherish.
The Republicans are struggling. The old fart Rush Limbaugh died, so there's powerful figure in the party to push an agenda. Washed Up 45 is banned on social media. The Republicans have no major attempts to win back the suburban voters who flocked to the Democrats.
Let's keep the pressure on the Republicans. Let then talk about distractions. Watch them lose.
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