Kamala Harris tells WPR she supports eliminating the filibuster to restore abortion rights
Kamala Harris tells WPR she supports eliminating the filibuster to restore abortion rights
Said Manchin: “Shame on her. She knows the filibuster is the Holy Grail of democracy. It’s the only thing that keeps us talking and working together. If she gets rid of that, then this would be the House on steroids.”
Eat shit, Manchin. People's lives are at stake.
Manchin's not even on the ballot in 2024. He's ditched the party to become an independent, while his seat is polling 64/28 Republican favoring the outgoing governor Jim Justice to a small town mayor from Wheeling named Glenn Elliott.
Sinema, the other walking "we can't because" excuse by the Dems, quit to dedicate herself fully to drinking with other lobbyists in wine caves. Arizona is polling significantly better for Dems (49/43 or thereabouts) now that the GOP is running an outspoken fascist Kari Lake in a majority-minority state.
But the Senate map still favors the GOP by one seat. Dems need to defend Montana and Ohio to hold an even 50 seats. Otherwise, they'll have to scrounge a pickup from seething gasp Texas or Florida. So, it could very well not be an issue in 2024. The GOP could retake the Senate and spend the next two years holding the national economy at gunpoint with a government shutdown.
Shame on Manchin. He's power hungry and knows he and sinema get all the power this way.
She did stop short of promises simple majorities would translate to getting the votes to do it, and I'm glad they're being more realistic this time.
But she needs to actually use the bully pulpit if we have the majority but the votes still aren't there.
If there's some Dems who don't support this, then they need to be named and shamed so they either fold to peer pressure or their voters know they need replaced in the next primary.
We can't keep hiding who these Dems are by avoiding the vote. Make them go on record for not supporting the party platform
The old blue dog dems that held up the ACA until it was neutered and who opposed other progress when they were rhe deciding vote had no issue with the publicity. There werre recent discussions about getting rid of the filibuster and Dems were openly opposed to it.
So feel free to name and shame, they don't care.
You say that, but Sanders went to WV and talked to Manchins voters, and got him to support the party platform more than once.
You don't just use the bully pulpit from the White House to address the whole nation.
You pick it up and go to the voters and tell them the person they voted for isn't just holding them back. They're holding the whole country back.
That works. And it works a lot better when it's the president doing it than a random senator from another state.
It’s more than name and shame that is required. Just doing that will enable the media to dull the impact and sweep it under the rug at the next 24 hour news cycle, nobody will hardly know.
What is needed for these corrupt politicians to come around is to go to their home districts and campaign loudly against them, and in favor of legislation which will help the voting working class. This will force them to play nice, or cost them their seats if done correctly.
Not just Harris - but we should have folks stumping for her on these policies too. Like Obama, Biden, Waltz, AOC, Sanders, and whoever else.
How about just abolishing it entirely?
Fuck the filibuster.
In its current form, anyway. I don't really have a problem with it if it's employed in its original intended method, i.e. the senator in question actually has to keep talking and cannot yield the floor for the entirety of the amount of time he wants to block something. And preferably, we put him in TV in real-time while he's doing it. Under very bright lights.
The way it works now where anyone can just say, "We declare filibuster" serves no purpose other than to allow whoever is in the minority (but let's not kid ourselves, usually Republicans) to infinitely block anything forever without consequences, which is prima facie undemocratic.
I don't follow what you are saying when that's what would have to happen to do this?
In 2022, she's also said she supports removing the filibuster to get voting rights acts and other things through as well
Republicans got rid of the fulibuster for only judicial nominations so they could stack the courts after years of using the filibuster to deny Dem nominations. It isn't an all or nothing thing.
The wording of getting rid of the filibuster for abortion was previously floated as a one time exception and then keeping around for everything else. This sounded like the same thing, just ending it for the one topic, not ending it in general.
Supports it until the day she's sworn in. We've seen this movie before and know how it plays out.
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Also add two more states plz.
Three more. Then we'll have 53, a prime number, and truly be one nation indivisible.
Not sure about two but Washington D.C. should have statehood.
Which states? Iirc most Puerto Ricans don't want statehood.