Posted on 04/07/2021 10:34:42 AM PDT by rktman
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) has surfaced as one of the only Democrat defenders of the filibuster, having to reject attempts from her own party to persuade her in eliminating the 60-vote requirement in order to advance most pieces of legislation.
Sinema joined with another Democrat, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), to block their party from eliminating the filibuster. Recently Breitbart News reported, Manchin conveyed Democrats do not have enough votes in the Senate to pass President Joe Biden’s $2.25 trillion infrastructure proposal due to six or seven Democrats who oppose raising the corporate tax rate to 28 percent.
For this reason, pressure has started to build from their party, partly due to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) wanting to ram through bills that have come from the far-left wing of their party.
Sinema told the Wall Street Journal, “the problem is senators’ behavior, not the chamber’s rules.”
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You hit the nail on the head! It’s not about her being moderate, whatsoever. It’s that she knows her side will pass crazier and crazier bills which will disgust her constituency, and she’ll have to go along with them since the Senate is so divided. She’s hoping the Republicans kill them bills before they grow. In which case she can pay lip service to both sides.
There is no trigger to pull and the Dems have pretty much passed the bills they wanted to pass anyways, apart from removing the filibuster which will not happen thanks to Manchin and Sinema
Manchin will feel the heat, and so will Sinema.
Those two have been feeling the heat on the filibuster from long before Dementia Joe stole the elections. If anything, Manchin/Sinema are even more determined not to give an inch on removing the filibuster.
Filibuster GONE!
Happily, the filibuster is still here and the Dems attempts to remove it is doomed to failure and is going nowhere fast.
The Backlash Against Socialism: North Las Vegas Mayor Switches Political Parties
Amercan Thinker.com ^ | April 9, 2021 | Jessica Marie Baumgartner
Posted on 09/04/2021, 12:49:30 by Kaslin
On April 6th, North Las Vegas mayor John Lee announced that he is no longer associated with the Democratic Party and has, instead, switched his affiliation to the Republicans. This move is a direct result of the push for socialism from the Democrats.
The mayor explained on “Fox and Friends,” “In the Democratic Party of Nevada, they had an election recently for leadership, and four of the five people were card-carrying members of the socialistic party. It's not the party that I grew up with 25 years ago in this environment, and it's not the party that I can stand with anymore.”
Manchin lays down the law on Filibuster…
Posted by Kane on April 9, 2021 1:43 am
‘There is no circumstance in which I will vote to eliminate or weaken the filibuster’
“The filibuster is a critical tool to protecting that input and our democratic form of government. That is why I have said it before and will say it again to remove any shred of doubt: There is no circumstance in which I will vote to eliminate or weaken the filibuster. The time has come to end these political games, and to usher a new era of bipartisanship where we find common ground on the major policy debates facing our nation,” Manchin wrote.
“We will not solve our nation's problems in one Congress if we seek only partisan solutions. Instead of fixating on eliminating the filibuster or shortcutting the legislative process through budget reconciliation, it is time we do our jobs,” he said.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/manchin-lays-down-the-law/
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