Joe Biden has criticized reasonable Democrats for not serving to work across the Senate filibuster.
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In a disgraceful efficiency Tuesday, President Joe Biden went right down to Georgia to supply a disgraceful pack of lies concerning the filibuster and Democrats’ so-called “voting rights” payments.
The filibuster guidelines principally let 41 senators block most laws. Maybe Biden’s most intelligent fib was claiming he solely desires a one-time exception to the rule for the payments, which purpose to (unconstitutionally) federalize voting guidelines.
That’s utter bull: As soon as Democrats carve out an exception for one thing they declare is of utmost significance, they’ll do it once more for an additional “needed” legislation, and Republicans will proceed to do the identical for his or her prime precedence — say, a invoice to federalize abortion legislation.
What could possibly be extra necessary than defending life? they’d ask: It’s proper at first of the Declaration of Independence!
The entire level of the filibuster is to stop non permanent, skinny congressional majorities (and so they don’t get a lot thinner than what Dems have proper now) from ramming via legal guidelines that don’t have critical, long-lasting public help.
And most of the people isn’t remotely clamoring for these payments; solely lefty Democrats insist on them. But to appease the left, Biden feels compelled to push for killing the filibuster — one thing he defended all through his personal Senate profession: As lately as 2005, he praised the filibuster as being about “compromise and moderation” and denounced GOP efforts to power an “exception” as a “energy seize by the bulk occasion.”
This, though the votes to truly end-run the filibuster aren’t even there, since Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) publicly oppose the principles “exception.”
Not that Biden’s whoppers ended there. He totally mischaracterized the latest GOP-led adjustments to state voting legal guidelines as “Jim Crow 2.0,” when none of them make these states’ guidelines extra restrictive than the legal guidelines in his personal Delaware or ultra-blue New York.
By and enormous, these legal guidelines merely roll again a few of the “every thing goes” election guidelines adopted in 2020 to ease voting amid the pandemic.
But the prez painted the distinction pretty much as good vs. evil: “Do you need to be on the aspect of Dr. [Martin Luther] King or George Wallace? Do you need to be on the aspect of John Lewis or Bull Connor? Do you need to be on the aspect of Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis?”
He’s shameless. Heck, he even repeated his (totally debunked) declare to have been arrested as a younger man whereas protesting for civil rights.
The nation has actual wants proper now, from Omicron to still-messed up provide chains to hovering inflation and tens of millions who haven’t gotten jobs after dropping them amid the pandemic. An trustworthy president would concentrate on that, fairly than pitching divisive falsehoods to serve the needs of 1 faction of his occasion.
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