The sick and evil plan which Democrats cooked up “to tilt every election in America permanently in their favor,” lies dead on the Senate floor, in a pool of liberal blood. The curtain came down for good on the “For the People Act.” It was shot down by Republicans, heavily armed with assault logic on Tuesday.
Evil plan dies in Senate
Power hungry progressives were getting so desperate to enact their evil scheme that they even came up with a plan to eliminate the filibuster. They were all set to try but the RINOs were afraid to step out of line. Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski calls it a “partisan federal takeover of the election system.”
Making the problem even worse for liberals, the Democrats also had problems with DINO defectors. Conservatives are laughing at how the shoe is karmically on the other foot now. The dodge was way too lopsided for Senators to throw away the entire filibuster option over it, so the bill is DOA.
Ranking Republican Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky slammed the one-sided proposal as “Democrats’ transparently partisan plan to tilt every election in America permanently in their favor.” He added that we know “it would shatter a decades-old understanding that campaign law should have a bipartisan referee.”
Not only that, it would “turn the Federal Election Commission into a partisan-majority cudgel for Democrats to wield against their political opponents.” That is seriously not a good thing, McConnell warns. “We know that it would let Washington bureaucrats direct federal dollars into politicians’ campaign accounts.” That means spending your tax dollars on “yard signs and attack ads.”
The evil progressive plan “would let Democrats take a red pen to election laws in each of the 50 states, neutering popular precautions like voter I.D. while legalizing shady practices like ballot harvesting across the board.” Republican Senators weren’t about to let them get away with it.
The RINOs knew full well that if they didn’t back the GOP on this one, they would be met back home at the airport by a howling mob of their constituents. DINO Senators like Kyrstin Sinema got that message loud and clear too. She understands exactly how she got her job and she plans to keep it for a while. Mark Kelly is following her example and he’s on probation to start with. Because his was a special election victory he has to do it again in 2022 and will possibly be facing a conservative Republican this time.
A steak dinner to any reporter on TV or writing about the election bill who mentions even a single one of the dealbreaker provisions – the primary reasons R’s rejected it:
✅ Taxpayer funded campaigns
✅ Gutting voter ID
✅ Mandating ballot harvesting
✅ Politicizing FEC— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) June 22, 2021
Breaking the filibuster
Once again, the tried and true Senate tradition of the filibuster saved the day for the American republic. “All 50 Democrats voted for the procedural measure, but it drew no GOP support.” That left the evil plan “short of the 60 votes needed to overcome a Republican filibuster.”
The Wall Street Journal was especially surprised that the DINOs dared to defect. “Democratic centrists, most prominently Mr. Manchin and Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, have rejected ending the filibuster.” They throw their liberal readers a few crumbs of hope by adding, “though some have suggested ways to weaken it.”
The filibuster was one of the Democrats’ favorite tools in thwarting the goals of Once and Future President Donald Trump. Liberal senators “repeatedly used the filibuster to stop Republicans from advancing legislation” under Trump.
Time and again “Republicans had to hold “time-sapping roll call votes to break a filibuster and end debate on nominees.” With Trump in office, they used it “a whopping 314 times,” in comparison to “a total of 244 times under all previous presidents combined.” Suddenly, the plan to rig elections is important enough to do away with the age old Senate procedure.
After using it as their standard operating procedure for the past four years, the filibuster has abruptly become “racist.” The plan is to “cast the filibuster as racist in an attempt to pressure senators to abolish it, so they can ram through President Joe Biden’s liberal agenda.”
As Faux News reports, “Republicans took issue with imposing federal standards on state elections that they said would weaken state ID requirements. They also oppose starting a new public financing system for congressional elections and politicizing the Federal Elections Commission that enforces campaign finance laws.”
