They know that the only way their pro-life, rigged election, racist, bigoted, anti-LGBTQ+ agenda wins is if they cheat by making voting as hard as climbing Mount Everest.ĭid Sinema utter such foolery about the democratic leadership because she has been living in a cave on Mt. Republicans in Congress have zero interest in tampering with state-level voting restrictions passed by their fellow Republicans. I don’t even know where to begin after a statement like that without stating the obvious. I wish that were not the case just as I wish there had been a more serious effort on the part of Democratic leaders.” Sinema lied through her teeth on the Senate floor when she said, “I share the disappointment that we’ve not found more support on the other side of the aisle for responses to state-level voting restrictions. There are no such things as sins for her. Her dagger, dripping with the blood of democracy, slashed at all of the little guys, blocking voting rights for people of color, disabled people, elderly people, Black people, and poor people. If she’s indeed become a Christian, then she’s required to look out for the little guy as Jesus Christ did. But now she's wearing a cross, while posing as a Republican.” Can you think of anything, outside of naming a post office after Jesus Christ?Īnd speaking of Jesus, Michelangelo Signorile tweeted yesterday that Sinema famously didn't swear on a Bible when she was sworn in, “because she is the first senator who said she has no religious affiliation - a pose from back when she was in the Green Party. We may never see 60 senators agree on anything ever again. McConnell knows that getting 60 votes in an impossibly divided Senate is simply impossible. But why a fool? Because when the Republicans take over the Senate next year - and they will now that the vote has been rigged in their favor - the first thing the vindictive Mitch McConnell will do as majority leader is get rid of the filibuster. Traitor because she gave zero consideration about how her stance would betray the right to vote. Sinema will be looked at as a traitor and fool. President Biden said that history will look back to see who kept democracy alive by upholding the right to vote. Her dagger's slashes now leave democracy on life support. The democracy of the United States has been under extraordinary stress since 2016, teetering on January 6, 2021, and wobbling wildly for the last year. Sinema is not only the dagger at the throat of democracy in her speech on the Senate floor, she literally took that weapon and stabbed with it. It will be a free-for-all that will crush the vote, the very heart of democracy. And it will also give clearance to other states to pass similar constricting laws. Further, her decision will let stand the nearly two dozen and counting voting restriction laws that have been passed by Republican majorities in state legislatures around the country. Now, because of Sinema, the Voting Rights Act has crashed into a barrier. Since 1965, it has been validated by bipartisan majorities, including in 2006 when the Senate voted 98-0 to reauthorize and President George W. What’s ironic about this entire catastrophe is that reauthorizing the Voting Rights Act isn’t some dangerous conspiracy or even partisan. Day holiday, which coincidentally is on Monday. And Sinema represents a state that fought tooth and nail against the Martin Luther King Jr.
The filibuster and the 60-vote threshold that it protects and was cemented during the Jim Crow era were saved by a white bisexual woman.Ī person who upholds the rights of a minority in the legislature to control actual minorities of which she is neither is galling.
Kyrsten Sinema gave a full-throated endorsement of the filibuster, thereby crushing any hope that voting rights laws will pass Congress. President Biden, during his speeches at Statuary Hall in the Capitol on January 6 and in Georgia on Tuesday, sais some were “holding a dagger at the throat of democracy.”
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