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    Chuck Schumer’s cynical theater of failure

    Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer promised his Democratic caucus a month of pain and failure to start the new year. Yesterday, he began to deliver on that pledge by starting debate on two partisan voting reform bills that everyone knows are going to fail.


    All 50 Democrats support both bills, but neither has the backing of even a single Republican. Schumer did take advantage of a commonly used procedural trick that allows the Senate to save time by skipping an initial vote to begin debate (this is done by having the House amend previously passed Senate legislation and send it back to the Senate as a “message”), but Senate rules still require 60 votes to end debate before Democrats can move on to final passage.


    Both Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema and West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin made it clear last week that they will not vote with the rest of their caucus to change Senate rules unilaterally, not even for these two bills that they support. Undeterred, Schumer plans to force Sinema and Manchin to vote against his proposed rule changes either today or tomorrow — depending on how long other Democrats wish to speak about the legislation.


    But Schumer can’t force just Sinema and Manchin to vote on his proposed rule changes. His effort to get everyone on record will also force other centrist Democrats in purple and red states to take firm votes either for or against unilaterally changing Senate rules without the required two-thirds majority.


    A vote against the rule change could make Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly and Montana Sen. Jon Tester enemies of the Democratic Party’s increasingly radical base. A vote for the rule change, however, will be hard to defend in states where President Joe Biden lost or is very unpopular right now. This is a no-win vote for more than a few Senate Democrats.



    The failed votes won’t end there. Schumer has also promised an up-or-down vote on Biden’s Build Back Better agenda, a plan Manchin said he would not vote for in December. Then, Democrats will reportedly begin breaking up the Build Back Better legislation into smaller pieces, voting on government-run pre-K, alternative energy subsidies for billionaires, and free money for nonworking parents as separate items.


    Manchin will most likely vote with Republicans on each of these smaller bills as well, setting up a never-ending cascade of Democratic failure, pouring down into the spring and summer months of 2022 as far as one can see......snip~



    Chuck Schumer’s cynical theater of failure | Washington Examiner



    Schumer is taking the votes today. I heard of calling for a vote to put the other party down on record. But not for putting its own memebers down on record. Schumer tried to use a trick and got caught. The Deviant is the worst Senate Leader of all time.


    Btw he is doing this after Tom Cotton Humiliated him using his own words to not get rid of the filibuster. Now the Deviant is singing a different tune.


    Manchin and Sinema have already told the Deviant they wont get rid of the filibuster or change the rules. So its dead on arrival. Which means Deviant Schumers plan for the Unconstitutional Voting Rights bill is dead in the water.
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    I wonder if the typical Dem voter understands how harmful the Dem political agenda is.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    I wonder if the typical Dem voter understands how harmful the Dem political agenda is.
    Uhm. That would be a no. Think of Jet.
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    Influential PAC Emily's List vows to pull support for Sinema if she doesn't back filibuster change
    Influential PAC Emily's List vows to pull support for Sinema if she doesn't back filibuster change
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    Schumer: Hell Yes, We're Going to Try and Fail to Nuke the Filibuster Over 'Voting Rights'

    Schumer: Hell Yes, We're Going to Try and Fail to Nuke the Filibuster Over 'Voting Rights' (townhall.com)
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    Quote Originally Posted by MMC View Post
    Schumer: Hell Yes, We're Going to Try and Fail to Nuke the Filibuster Over 'Voting Rights'

    Schumer: Hell Yes, We're Going to Try and Fail to Nuke the Filibuster Over 'Voting Rights' (townhall.com)
    Their plan isn't voter rights. It is an unconstitutional power grab.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Their plan isn't voter rights. It is an unconstitutional power grab.
    Validating that Democrats are a threat to the Republic and Democracy. Which Repubs and all on the Right should be calling them out as such. Then the American People can start hunting them down.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    I wonder if the typical Dem voter understands how harmful the Dem political agenda is.
    They’re desperate.
    When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.“ - Benjamin Franklin.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    I wonder if the typical Dem voter understands how harmful the Dem political agenda is.
    If President Biden (or his puppet controllers) really wanted to Unite the country after four years of Trump then they would have figured out enough compromise to work with a 50/50 Senate and a House with a slim Democrat majority. Instead they chose to go full blown far left acting as if the other side did not matter at all.

    Like Reagan, he could have shown his ability to get things done across the aisles but he blew it and so did this congress. And they know what is coming in the Fall of 2022!
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