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The controversial Arizona senator will not back the filibuster rules change.
The Democratic senators Karen Sinema of Arizona and Karen Manchin of West Virginia have been thorns in President Joe Biden's side. Despite the attempts by Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to force a floor vote on the Build Back Better agenda and voting rights, it's blocked by the 50 Karens in the Republican conferences and these two Karens in the Democratic caucus.
These two Democrats are destructive to the very course of democracy.
A majority of Americans believe democracy is trouble. Since the insurrection, we seen Republicans pass more partisan voting restrictions to keep people from voting. We seen the Supreme Court down policies towards health and safety.
We have Republican members openly calling for the assassination of federal workers.
We have a handful of news networks freely pushing extremism on a national stage.
Black people voted for Biden to win.
We didn't vote for Karens.
Sinema and Manchin went to the Democratic luncheon with their hands cross and their mouths completely shut when Biden urged the party to get on board with changing the filibuster.
He said now is not the time to be complacent to the status quo.
The Democrats have a slim majority in the Senate. Had the former president had that, I bet you money, the opposition leader McConnell would have quickly pushed forward an elimination of the filibuster to pass legislation to roll back the Affordable Care Act, restrictions to a woman's body, sending immigrants back to their home countries despite not being there when they were children and who knows.
Sinema believes that if we take away the filibuster and go through simple majority, the consequences will be equal. Don't worry bitch, McConnell will find a way.
Matter of fact, the goal is to reinstall the former president.
Washed Up 45 or anyone can be the U.S. Speaker of the House. The Republicans can impeach Biden and Vice President Harris and thus the former president if chosen to be speaker could be president.
Republicans take control of the senate and throw out the filibuster and thus remove Biden and Harris.
Then Republicans can rule with an iron fist and cause another insurrection.
They will prey on the stupid by telling them that the economy is bad, Blacks are dangerous, immigrants are getting handouts, radical Islam on the rise, they want to silence your voice. They are stirring the ingredients of a white nationalist revolution in which the dying race is being replaced.
Leading will be Murdoch's bullshit peddlers on primetime and the internet thanks to Mark Zuckerberg and his ilk.
And when the day come, we can thank her and Manchin.
She said removing the filibuster would not guarantee "that we prevent demagogues from being elected" and that getting rid of it would merely be treating the "symptom" of partisanship and not the underlying problem.
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Sinema said while she continues to strongly back Democrats' elections legislation she will not support "separate actions that worsen the underlying disease of division infecting our country ... There's no need for me to restate my long-standing support for the 60-vote threshold to pass legislation."
"When one party need only negotiate with itself, policy will inextricably be pushed from the middle towards the extremes," she added, noting that she does not support that outcome, and she knows "Arizonans do not either."
Sinema's position has been consistent throughout recent negotiations on voting rights but is a fatal blow to her party as they tried to strike a unified tone in backing legislation on the issue, ahead of a self-imposed deadline Monday to act.
Arizona Rep. Ruben Gallego called out Sinema by name for supporting the filibuster over the wishes of Biden, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and other progressive Democrats. Gallego has not ruled out running against Sinema in the 2024 Senate primary.
"We won't shrink from protecting our democracy and the voting rights of all Americans," he said on Thursday. "It's past time for the US Senate and Senator Sinema to do the same."
Arizona Democratic Party chair Raquel Terán also criticized Sinema, saying the organization was "disappointed to say the least that she has chosen to protect an antiquated rule over her constituents."
Sinema acknowledged some states are passing laws that make it harder for voters to access the ballot box, and said she supports civil rights groups challenging those laws in court, and she said she will support voting rights bills coming from the House. However, she is not going to back a change to the filibuster.
Sinema argued the country needs a "sustained robust effort to defend American Democracy." She outlined some ways to do this, including supporting state and local candidates who represent the values enshrined in our Constitution and ensuring "we have a judiciary that is less lopsided in its political leanings." She also said that it is key the nation "confront and combat the rise of rampant disinformation."
Sinema drew praise from her fellow moderate Manchin who said he listened to Sinema's speech and that she did an "excellent job."
"I think it's the points that I've been making for an awful long time, and she has too," he said, when asked if he agrees with many of the points she made in her floor remarks.
Republicans also praised Sinema. McConnell told CNN that her remarks were an act of "conspicuous of political courage." He added: "She saved the Senate as an institution."
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