President Joe Biden is meeting with the Senate Democratic caucus Thursday, applying some pressure in a seemingly ill-fated push to pass voting rights legislation.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) set the wheels in motion Wednesday night, using procedural strategy to ensure that the Senate will debate the two major voting bills before the Republicans inevitably filibuster their passage. That’s the point at which the conversation will shift fully to chamber rule changes — something Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) seem as resolutely against as they were a year ago.
President Joe Biden is meeting with the Senate Democratic caucus Thursday, applying some pressure in a seemingly ill-fated push to pass voting rights legislation.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) set the wheels in motion Wednesday night, using procedural strategy to ensure that the Senate will debate the two major voting bills before the Republicans inevitably filibuster their passage. That’s the point at which the conversation will shift fully to chamber rule changes — something Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) seem as resolutely against as they were a year ago.
I interrupt the regularly scheduled programming to send out an especially hearty “Fuck Sinema!” if she shits all over President Biden’s visit to Capitol Hill this morning.
Sinema must be awfully confident that the GQP base is going to vote her back into the Senate.
ETA: That, or someone has promised her a very lucrative payout to hold the line.
Yay, Sinema. That speech will certainly play well for future historians.
Somebody really needs to check her bank accounts for either Bitcoin or Ruble deposits.
As disgusting and vile as it is, one reason why the GQPers get a lot of stuff through is because, for better or worse, they hang together and STFU if they don’t agree. Yes, there was the Tea Party kerfuffle, but otherwise it seldom happens that they sabotage their own goals.
Dems, on the other hand…
If I believed in Hell, I would wish for a lightning strike and this vile woman finding herself in the deepest depths for the rest of eternity.