Posted on 09/15/2022 12:58:44 PM PDT by cotton1706
After more than two months of private negotiations over legislation that would codify same-sex marriage rights nationwide, the leading broker for the bill announced on Thursday that a vote on the bill would be postponed until after the midterms—a move, sources close to the negotiations said, is intended to win additional Republican supporters once the issue can’t be weaponized during campaign season.
“I’m still very confident that the bill will pass, but we will be taking the bill up later, after the election,” Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) told reporters after a caucus lunch with fellow Democrats.
Baldwin, who alongside Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) led efforts to convince moderate Republican senators to back legislation securing same-sex marriage rights nationwide, had recently predicted that the bill would come up for a vote as early as next week—despite most recent whip counts indicating that only six Republicans would back the measure.
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A lame-duck session is literally as far away from the next election as possible.
“...they mean its safer when they’re no longer accountable...”
RINOs play that game, too.
Ever get the feeling that it’s THEM against US? ;)
Those are the Democrats’ priorities: codifying every moral ill such as abortion and same-sex “marriage”.
The current bill expires after this session of congress, so they’ll have to start over. And with a (hopefully) conservative Republican congress or senate, that ain’t happening.
Biden is a one-term lame duck president from the getgo, so his entire administration has been without accountability.
The only thing holding Dims back has been the midterms. After they lose, Nov 7 to Jan 3 will be a legislative, anti-American massacre.
Oz is ready to support the rainbow gaystapo. Yay PA.
This years lame duck is about as scary as it gets. If Manchin decides he is toast in WV he could let the filibuster die and it will be as you said an -anti-American massacre.
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