The clock is ticking. And ticking. It’s an election year, with every seat in the U.S. House of Representatives on the ballot, and about one-third of Senate seats to be decided.
You’d not know this, though, to watch the doings of President Joe Biden and Democratic leaders in Congress. To see them in action – or not in action, more accurately – one could be forgiven for believing that all is going swimmingly and that their majorities are likely intact as far as the eye can see.
Well, for those who are quite nearsighted, maybe.
On Tuesday, Biden traveled to Georgia to give a much-hyped address on voting rights. The right to vote is fundamental, he stressed.
True enough. But completely missing the moment.
Unless Senate Democrats move to blow up the filibuster, employing what is known as the nuclear option, changing the rules with a simple majority vote, Biden’s talk will add up to nothing. And since Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat from West Virginia, has said plainly that he’d not support nuking the filibuster, this is a done deal.
Biden is wasting his breath, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is wasting time, as he’s been yapping about scheduling votes on the filibuster and voting rights.
You’d think that Biden, Schumer and other Democrats would have learned from their failure on the mammoth social spending bill called Build Back Better. Manchin had said repeatedly that he had serious problems with the measure and wouldn’t be able to support it as written. Did they think he was joking? Do they think he’s not serious about his position on the filibuster?
A not-so-radical suggestion for the president and congressional Democrats: When a member of your caucus says he’s not on board, don’t imagine that he’ll change his mind once he comes to see how righteous is your cause. Instead, take him at his word and plan accordingly.
Another suggestion: Take a look at the calendar, at Biden’s lousy approval ratings and at history. It won’t be long before everyone in Washington is focused on the midterm elections. When that happens, the time for legislating will effectively have passed.
If congressional Democrats are hoping not to be swept out to sea in an electoral tsunami of historic proportions, they’d do well to get a few things done for the people. Now.
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Quicksand joe and his band of rogues are desperate. Let’s just watch them sink further and further into the loose ground they have tilled.
That’s exactly what we want to see—THE POLITICAL TSUNAMI OF TSUNAMIS !!!!!
I would love to STICK THEN ALL IN THE MUD, and wait for a REAL TSUNAMI to wash over them all….
One would think that with midterms at hand the President and Democrats as a whole would tone down the rhetoric, the vitrial which turning off just about everybody. They keep pressing all these radical changes in government that are wildly unpopular the general public while ignoring the real concerns of all citizens no matter which party they vote for. Lumping people who disagree with infamous Democrats is not a wise comparison because those cited shaped the Democrat Party in the past. Lots of people disliked Donald Trump’s rhetoric but he got things done! Democrat rhetoric of today is worse and they are getting nothing done but irritating all who hear them.
The reason Joe is so confident, Soros has assured him no matter how many votes Republicans get, his computers sold to Blue State governments to count the votes have already been preprogrammed to cancel them out, and they are printing hvea corrupted mail-in ballots being printed for harvesting in the fall. If you have a covid relative that dies between now and November, there is a good chance he will be voting mail-in for The Democrats come fall.
I’ve thought the same… That the dems KNOW their fraud machine is going to be in full swing.