I mean, I want a partisan witch-hunt, so I can understand the Biden administration not wanting to do partisan witch-hunt things.
Lessons learned: zero
https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1390496414413754373?s=21
https://twitter.com/__equality9/status/1390497473299243012?s=21
The answer ā that a small subset of Democrats who have the power to block the bill feel that the seditionists should be on board with curtailing their power ā makes me want to beat my head against a fucking wall, it is THAT stupid.
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GOP is already doing enormous damage. They donāt want to do anything. They want to prevent Dems from doing things. Dem programs are immensely popular once implemented and would be very difficult to repeal, eg ACA, thatās why Republicans always nibble at the edges and erode the foundations through courts and regulatory capture, not repealing laws. Also, Iād say dare the Supreme Court to overturn the bill, or just pack the court to make the pint moot.
Lol at three. Rs are probably better off long-term with a filibuster, but if they cook something up that requires it and has 50 r senators it is gone.
Of course they might strip the filibuster, pass a bill, then reinstate it in hope that the Dems will still look to preserve that norm still.
Interesting
My view is they already got rid of it for judges, where it is useful for conservatives, they can do tax cuts through reconciliation, and even progressive light legislation is very hard to repeal once in place. They canāt repeal ACA and will have trouble rolling back the child credits just instituted, they are too popular. If Medicare for all passed once with 50 votes, it is never getting unwound. It is better off used as a bipartisan propaganda point than for anything else for Rs
It is so damn frustrating that the message isnāt filibuster is gone because filibuster for lifetime judges but not legislation is untenable, but instead is āwe only will do infrastructure that we can pay forā
Of all the terrible takes out there, āthink of what the GOP will do without a filibusterā is among the worst.
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Especially since if they decide they donāt want it when they are in power theyāre just dumping it!
Also a big l for your pony.
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Your pony is gonna need to take a big L right along with them.
Edit: Ponied on a pony, thatās well deserved I suppose.
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Where do things stand w the voting bill? Are they really going to let Republican state legislatures all over the country pass these bills and have no response? Iām sure they have people in their ears saying this is existential for the party, what gives?
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Manchin thinks the answer to Republicans rigging elections is to work with Republicans, or something.
Yes, they are indeed going to do nothing.
Because America is The Greatest Country In The World. Whatever terrible fascist nightmare people are imagining Could Never Happen Here because Shining City On A Hill.
I wish I was joking.
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And all the boomers will die just in time to escape any consequences, very on brand.
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