Sinema Won't Allow Rule Change for Voting Rights

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Sinema Won’t Allow Rule Change for Voting Rights

December 15, 2021 at 6:44 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 117 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2021/12/15/sinema-wont-allow-rule-change-for-voting-rights/

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“Kyrsten Sinema supports the elections reform bill that Democrats are considering a year-end push to pass. She doesn’t support a shortcut around the filibuster to get it done,” Politico reports.

“The Arizona moderate is making clear that she intends to keep protecting the Senate’s 60-vote requirement on most legislation and she isn’t ready to entertain changing rules to pass sweeping elections or voting legislation with a simple majority.”

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[Tickle]

1. Then does it matter

that she supports it?

[applegrove]

2. Because of course she does.

[Cobalt Violet]

3. Looks like we will have a republican Dictatorship then.

WTF.

[Takket]

3. someday cockroaches will be all that's left of this country...

but dammit, those cockroaches will still have the filibuster.

[brush]

5. She's so getting primaried in '24. Such a DINO.

[LiberatedUSA]

12. By then it won't matter.

[brush]

20. I don't know about that. With all Jan. 6 House committee...

revelations coming out and names sure to follow, we may yet keep majorities in Congress.

[BlueLucy]

22. Nope.

Republicans do not care how badly their own behave. It won't matter at all. Not at all.

[brush]

24. Neither you nor I know what will happen. Too much pessimism on DU...

nowadays.

[BlueLucy]

28. It's not pessimism is fact

What has it been 6-7 years of Trump now? Nothing he has not has mattered. Their voters do not care what happened Jan 6th. For them. all is alright as long as they stick it to democrats.

[CrackityJones75]

34. Just stop.

If you are going to give up fine. Stop encouraging otjera to do ao and using this forum to do it.

[Elessar Zappa]

38. Republicans aren't all powerful

and we’re not powerless. Gimme a break.

[leftstreet]

17. No doubt she already has a cu$hy job waiting for her n/t

[tenderfoot]

29. Why do people keep saying that when we're stuck with her until then?

At this point it means absolutely nothing. Imagine the shit she'll pull until then.

Having said all that, I think she's despicable.

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40. Because Az Dems won't forget how much damage she's caused.

[48656c6c6f20]

6. Coming soon to the Cinema

The Look at me I'm important shit show!

[Lovie777]

7. She is not a moderate . ..

she is a conservative to the right.

[The Magistrate]

8. So She Opposes The Bill

People who won't do what's needed to achieve a thing oppose it.

Enough of this goose-cackle.

[BlueTsunami2018]

9. So predictable.

I get a lot of guff from people for saying that the bad guys won the game but I’m not sure why. If you can’t see the writing on the wall that’s a flashing neon sign at this point, you’ll never see it.

The time to be fighting for this stuff was more than twenty years ago. Now it’s too late.

[whathehell]

14. Yeah, well if you've already given up,

what's the point?

[BlueTsunami2018]

19. There really isn't one.

I just have a penchant for attempting impossible things.

We need to start figuring out how we’re going to survive this coming shitstorm.

[brush]

21. You might be giving up too soon. Revelations and names...

coming out of the House Jan. 6 committee may have a significant bearing on the mid-terms and '24. The committee just subpoenaed communication records of several wingers like Boebert, Greene, Jordan and others.

[whathehell]

25. That's an opinion, not a fact, one I don't believe

most here share.

[Fiendish Thingy]

10. Sounds like it's time for some more protests in AZ during the recess

Maybe some more bathroom conferences with her constituents too.

Sinema does not deserve a peaceful life in public places.

[dem4decades]

13. So it's done, thanks for nothing.

[Efilroft Sul]

15. Sinema, Manchin, and their apologists are described to a T by an MLK quote.

"I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action[.]'"

[applegrove]

16. Good quote.

[leftstreet]

18. +1

[radius777]

23. Exactly, Warnock's floor speech also detailed

how so-called 'bipartisanship' and 'compromise' has historically come at the expense of the marginalized. Both political parties were united in maintaining slavery, Jim Crow, denying women's rights etc - which only changed due to movements (abolitionism, civil rights, women's rights) that forced the issue.

[DLevine]

32. +1000

[Bettie]

37. That really does cover it

completely.

Except that I don't think she does agree. Allowing only a small number of people to vote benefits unpopular incumbents.

[kairos12]

26. She's a disaster.

[Ka-Dinh Oy]

27. Along with Manchin she is helping the repukes destroy America.

She is not a Democrat. There I said it again. ( first time about Manchin )

[mucifer]

30. She talks more with mcconnell than President Biden Bought and paid for pure evil

[Emile]

31. She is not being a team player,.

Did she go to Washington to get rich or to represent her voters?

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

33. The Senator from the Church of Latter Day Saints will be kicked to the curb

in the 2004 primaries.

Her political career is over. Arizona Democrats despise this traitor.

[Vinca]

35. Sinema, like many other Democrats, will wake up the day after the 2022 election and

wonder what went wrong. Why aren't they treating this with the urgency it demands? Once the GOP takes total control it's going to be nearly impossible to get equality again. And it goes without saying Herr Trump will be installed by his minions in 2024.

[Hotler]

36. Wake up to a fascist death squad coming for anyone

that has the letter D attached to their name or, anyone suspected of being a liberal.

[Mad_Machine76]

39. Well

I guess we’ll just have to wait for 10 Republicans to care about promoting/protecting Democracy.