Posted on 01/11/2022 3:36:40 AM PST by Libloather
resident Barack Obama argued in defense of the filibuster on the Senate floor in 2005 despite now referring to the Senate tactic as a “Jim Crow relic” in a comment that resident Joe Biden echoed on Thursday.
"If the majority chooses to end the filibuster, if they choose to change the rules and put an end to Democratic debate, then the fighting and the bitterness and the gridlock will only get worse," then-Sen. Obama stated in 2005, a clip of which has gone viral on social media this week.
Obama argued that ending the filibuster would "change the rules in the middle of the game so that they can make all the decisions while the other party is told to sit down and keep quiet."
Fifteen years later, in July of 2020, Obama spoke at the funeral of civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis and labeled the filibuster as a Jim Crow relic that should be eliminated.
"And if all this takes eliminating the filibuster, another Jim Crow relic, in order to secure the God-given rights of every American, then that's what we should do," Obama said.
Biden agreed with Obama’s current stance on the filibuster Thursday in his first solo press conference since taking office.
“Yes,” Biden stated when asked by a reporter if he agreed that the filibuster is a Jim Crow relic.
"Successful electoral politics is the art of the possible,” he added. “Let's figure out how to get this done and significantly change the abuse of the filibuster rule."
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Becasue, if it weren’t for double standards, the lefturds would have no standards at all...
It’s a Democrat’s privilege to contradict him/herself.
So Obama changes his words as the revolution moves forward.
So what? Do you think you will enlighten one person or change one mind by posting this?
We need to refer to this as the Democratic Party’s Jim Crow laws.
Jim Crow laws were forced by Democrats on the nation at the federal, state and local level, even going after Native Americans.
It needs to hang around their necks every time we discuss it.
Once upon a time Democrats agreed that Mail in Voting was the least secure means of voting. Democrats also wanted paper ballots and an audit trail.
Read the Carter-Baker report from about 15 years ago.
Just look at various Democrats’ statements about mail in voting right around the time of the 2012 election. Read articles in the NY Times or other Democrat mouthpieces about how insecure mail in voting is and how we need to take steps to ensure election integrity....and that was in the last 10 years.
This is as always just another attempted power grab by Democrats.
Then Harry Reid came along and did a partial demolition on the filibuster - but at first only on judicial nominees to the lesser Federal court judges. It was on the Supreme Court justices that the Republicans also insisted, which came along to bite the Democrats in the Gluteus Maximus.
“The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.” From Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.
In 2005, Barack Obama argued in defense of the filibuster on the Senate floor and now refers to the tactic as a “Jim Crow relic” ......... a comment that resident Joe Biden echoed on Thursday.
It’s creepy how this guy Obummer thinks he gets two and three bites of the political apple.
He had his turn......he should STHU.
“Recount your stolen holdings, Bummer, and hope you’re not invested w/ a Madoff.”
Washington Post.com
Opinion: Democrats have vigorously used the filibuster. It’s pathetic they now won’t pledge to protect it.
By Marc A. Thiessen, January 26, 2021 at 4:34 p.m. EST
The good news is: Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has secured what he says is an ironclad promise from two Democrats not to eliminate the legislative filibuster. The bad news is: The filibuster hangs by a fragile, two-vote thread.
In 2017, when Donald Trump was president and Democrats were in the minority, 61 senators — including 30 Democrats — signed a letter promising to preserve the right of the Senate minority to delay or block legislation.
But now that Republicans are in the minority, just two Democrats — Sens. Joe Manchin III (W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.) — are willing to make that same pledge. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) not only refused, he warned he will not allow the GOP minority to “dictate to the Senate what we should do and how we should proceed.”
When Schumer was minority leader, he vigorously used the filibuster to do just that. Under his leadership, Democrats used the filibuster to block funding for construction of Trump’s border wall in 2019.
They used it not once, but twice to impede passage of the Cares Act — forcing Republicans to agree to changes including a $600 weekly federal unemployment supplement. They used it in September and October to stop Republicans from passing further coronavirus relief before the November election.
They used it to halt Sen. Tim Scott’s (R-S.C.) police reform legislation so Republicans could not claim credit for forging a bipartisan response to the concerns of racial justice protesters.
They used it to block legislation to force “sanctuary cities” to cooperate with federal officials, and to stop a prohibition on taxpayer funding of abortion, bans on abortions once the unborn child is capable of feeling pain, and protections for the lives of babies born alive after botched abortions.
And those are just the bills Democrats killed with actual filibuster votes. More often than not, the majority doesn’t even bring up legislation that does not have 60 votes needed to cut off debate. Just the threat of a Democratic filibuster stopped Republicans from moving forward on a host of priorities, including entitlement reforms, immigration reforms, lawsuit reforms, health-care reforms, budget cuts, expanded gun rights and the defunding of Planned Parenthood.
And Democrats have used the filibuster to force Republicans to reduce the scope of some of their biggest legislative achievements. Republicans could not make the Trump income tax cut permanent, because they had to use the arcane budget reconciliation process (which requires a simple majority vote, but limits what can be enacted) to avoid a Democratic filibuster.......snip......
Funny that Democrats never mention that THEY are responsible for the Jim Crow Laws.
https://www.history.com/topics/early-20th-century-us/jim-crow-laws
Well, not really funny. Curious.
Rats are hypocrites; no surprise there.
The Kenyanesian Usurper will do or say anything to destroy the USA.
Our Constitution had the necessary words to prevent all of this, but NOT ONE of our elected OR appointed would uphold it.
That was then, this is now. The situation is different, so now that they’re (just barely) the majority party it’s time to kill the filibuster. And if they lose control again in 2022, they’ll want to put it back in place. You can take that to the bank!
They’re banking on no one remembering that they defended the filibuster. It certainly wasn’t (and won’t be) memorialized in the media!
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