Joe Biden gave an alarmingly far-left speech on Tuesday in Philadelphia, in which he lied about voter integrity laws being passed in Republican states across the country, referring to them as “21st century Jim Crow assault,” among other names. This from townhall.com.
Katie Pavlich covered the highlights from that day.
Yet it wasn’t enough for some liberals. You can probably guess why that is.
It’s because Biden didn’t reference the left’s boogeyman, the filibuster, as Hanna Trudo and Amie Parnes highlighted in a piece on Saturday for The Hill.
“This is really the first place that Biden risks losing the base,” said one top Democratic strategist. This from thehill.com.
Without moving Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin (WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (AZ) to abandon their defense of the Senate’s legislative filibuster, the legislation will not advance.
“The silence was deafening on the filibuster question that would make it a reality,” said Joseph Geevarghese, who leads the left-wing group Our Revolution.
The White House has effectively shuffled the question about how to handle the filibuster to the upper chamber. Press secretary Jen Psaki recently called it a “legislative process tool” that’s “important” and “warrants debate.” But she stopped short of taking a stance about any future tweaks, saying that “determination about making changes will be made by members of the Senate, not by this president or any president.”
It’s discomforting that so much is dependent upon Manchin and Sinema. And it’s a damn shame that two, likely more, U.S. Senate seats are situated on the democrat side of the aisle as a result of unequivocally stolen elections.
President Trump you are missed, sir.
