With the demise of any Voting Reform Legislation…
And?
Republicans working overtime to cast doubt on voting results like Donald Trump wants….
And?
Working on State and Local levels to install ‘trusted’ people to count the votes next year?
Joe Biden, The President….
Has been pushed to get involved…..
As best he can….
At the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, in a room filled with images of Benjamin Franklin and quotes from Daniel Webster and Theodore Roosevelt, Biden compared the new laws to voter suppression by the Ku Klux Klan and to the Jim Crow-era laws that disenfranchised nearly all voters who were not White and male. He railed against laws that restrict access — calling them “raw and sustained election subversion” — and said that the 2022 midterm elections could highlight the damaging effects of the new laws.
“This is a test of our time,” he said to a crowd of 300 civil rights advocates, top advisers, and local officials.
“Hear me clearly,” he added. “There’s an unfolding assault taking place in America today, an attempt to suppress and subvert the right to vote and fair and free elections. An assault on democracy, an assault on liberty, an assault on who we are.”
He urged Americans to channel their concern into action.
“We’re facing the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War,” he said. “That’s not hyperbole. Since the Civil War — the Confederates back then never breached the Capitol as insurrectionists did on January the 6th. I’m not saying this to alarm you. I’m saying this because you should be alarmed.”
Biden also mounted a robust defense of the election that led to his presidency, one that Trump and his allies have repeatedly and falsely said was conducted fraudulently….
image…Leah Millis / Reuters
Great Presidential speech yesterday.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/562877-harris-emerges-as-main-gop-foil-on-campaign-trail
Meanwhile Republicans are targeting the Vice President instead. As we all remember they did from 2009-2017.
Oh wait they almost never targeted the VP as super scary then. Only now. Hmm it’s almost like there’s a reason there I can’t white, I mean quite put my finger on
Yes on the Biden throwdown
He needs to keep at this
Congress won’t do a damn thing and the Supreme’s made it worst…..
McConnell on the Biden attack on Republican voting suppression efforts…
Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) knocked President Biden’s voting rights speech as “utter nonsense” for calling the fight over voting laws the “most significant test to our democracy since the Civil War.”
“What utter nonsense. It would be laugh-out-loud funny if it wasn’t so completely and totally irresponsible,” he said.
“This is our new president who promised to lower the temperature, bring America back together and rebuild a civil society where we can dialogue as fellow citizens,” McConnell added….
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McConnell is completely correct on this.
The threat to Democracy now is GREATER than that of the civil war. If the Union army lost the civil war, the remaining states would still have democracy.
I don’t have the slightest doubt in my mind that many in the GOP would not be willing to honor the election results for the Presidency and even some senate seats if they felt the results were unfavorable.
America has never had a major political party as authoritarian as the GOP is today. And history will remember the complicity of McConnell in all of this.
I would say that Zreebs is completely correct on this, not Moscow Mitch.
Everyone knows what Scott is talking about here. The demonization of our Vice President is well underway.
Why she’s even referred to as “mixed race” on this blog, an offensive label that needs to go the way of all those Confederate monuments they’re tearing down since the term is just as old and derogatory.
Additional on Biden and Voter Suppression and Reform…
…Mr. Biden, a veteran of the Senate who for decades has believed in negotiating on the particulars of voting rights legislation, has faced calls to push Democratic senators to eliminate the filibuster, which would allow the two major voting bills proposed by the party to pass with a simple majority. The president and his advisers have repeatedly pointed out that he does not have the votes within his own party to pass federal voting legislation, and does not have the power to unilaterally roll back the filibuster even if he supported doing so….
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Broadly, Mr. Biden’s advisers insist that the administration is committed to protecting access to the ballot and passing two federal bills: the For the People Act, an overhaul of federal election laws that was considered more of a political statement than viable legislation when it was first introduced in 2019, and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which would restore important parts of the Voting Rights Act that the Supreme Court stripped away in 2013.
Republicans have castigated the For the People Act as overreaching and partisan. And Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the minority leader, has said there is no need for a bill restoring parts of the Voting Rights Act.
White House officials privately note that even if Mr. Biden came out in support of ending the filibuster, moderate Democrats, including Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia and Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, have publicly resisted such a move. Mr. Manchin has also called the For the People Act a piece of “partisan” legislation….
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(Again…The filibuster isn’t going anywhere and neither is a stand alone Voting Rights Bill)