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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTomorrow the Senate will vote on having a debate on voting rights. If it goes down it won't
be because of the republicans, but because of two Democratic Senators who refuse to amend the filibuster, Sinema and Manchin
Sinema wrote an editorial today saying that the reason she is against the amending or removing the filibuster is because it will "destroy our democracy"
Ironically, it will be because of those Senators who refuse to modify or remove the filibuster why our democracy will be destroyed
SoCalDavidS
(9,998 posts)There really is no avoiding that reality.
What are we going to do? Vote out the 2 Senators that give us the slim margin we have in the Senate? Clearly we need them, unless we can somehow pick up 3+ seats in 2022, and also hold onto the House.
And their actions will probably prevent us from doing those things.
NewHendoLib
(60,018 posts)myohmy2
(3,169 posts)...more democratic than an individual blocking the will of the majority...
...I guess you have to be a 1%er to experience American democracy...
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msongs
(67,433 posts)"Arizonans expect me to do what I promised when I ran for the House and the Senate: to be independent like Arizona and to work with anyone to achieve lasting results."
No lady arizonans u lured in expected u to be a democrat
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,480 posts)These two senators are killing democracy over their vanity and stupidity
And thier oppositional defiant bullshit.
Manchin is deluded
Senima is still a 13 year old yelling you ain't the boss of meeee!!!
If democracy dies it dies because of them..
So hang it like an anchor around both of thier pathetic necks.
Humiliate them,shame them call them what they are so everyone knows and no more coddling or nicey nicey
Anymore. .then find out what the Krotch brothers bribed them with. Look at thier funders and hold these rich bastards accountable.
Write it down in history what they caused. Put it in the Congressional record..let them be remembered as the wastes of skin they are,forever. And take missy in- de - pen - dant
And tell the whole world she is a fraud. Lied about being a Dem. There needs to be consequences.
If we lose our democracy..no forgiveness.
AZSkiffyGeek
(11,058 posts)And she's not claiming to be "AN INDEPENDENT". She's claiming to be independent, not an Independent. She's a Democrat. I have a lot of problems with her behavior this year, but she votes D (when she shows up).
CrackityJones75
(2,403 posts)Look ok it isnt great that 2 of our own arent going ti cote for it. But there are 50 republicans that wont vote for what is good for the country. If we lose our democracy it aure as shit isnt because of the Democrats!
monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)ShazzieB
(16,481 posts)she is out of her damned mind.
Bats in the belfry. Cuckoo for cocoa puffs. Looney toons. Nuttier than squirrel poo. Lights are on but nobody's home. Elevator doesn't go all the way to the top.
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Naio
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FBaggins
(26,756 posts)It will be because of several Democrats.
Sinema and Manchin are just screening the heat for the remaining few.
UTUSN
(70,725 posts)that Manchin knows what he's doing, giving Repukes voter ID that non-Whites support and polls purging, with OBAMA/ABRAMS supporting - an offer Repukes can't refuse.