Kudos to Senate Leader Chuck Schumer for holding the vote anyway.

[Uncle Joe]

Short of success, I believe the silver lining from this vote was critical to the American Peoples' awareness as to how important each of our United Senators consider democracy to be and where they actually stand on the issue.

For any democratic nation to function well, the people have to be aware as to who supports what in order to more effectively hold their government accountable.

The filibuster is nothing but an enemy of accountability, smoke and mirrors meant to hide or separate cowardly Senators from the people.

The filibuster only makes it easier for Senators to be bought and paid for, or at least leased for a while by big money, because they can essentially hide their voting record from the people.

So I believe this vote will be invaluable for years to come in allowing the American People a better gauge of their Senators and will make it easier to have accountability if there is to be any.

[madville]

1. It had to be done

To put them on record as trying. It won’t hurt Manchin at all, Sinema may not care about running again regardless, she’s gonna have a tough primary if so.

[Progressive Jones]

3. The talk is she has Presidential ambitions, and she's working both sides of the aisle. nt

[madville]

5. That's laughable

She wouldn’t get 5% in either party’s primary. Now could she be a Green Party spoiler? Possibly

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

16. What real progressive would vote for het?

Not sure even the Greens want her.

[madville]

19. They are real progressives now?

I thought they just liked spoiling elections by peeling a few votes off the Democrats, figured they would just want the biggest name they can get to fundraise on.

[Progressive Jones]

2. Yeah, except that insanely large numbers of Americans have no clue as to what's going on here,

and they don't really understand what's at stake. Plus, they have the attention span of gnats.

[SoCalDavidS]

4. Shithole Nation nt

[Uncle Joe]

7. I believe we are fighting against decades of corporate propaganda

that has only served to sell the people, not actually engage them.

That's why American People in general have become more apathetic.

It's imperative that we keep January 6th front and center and all true believers of freedom and democracy do the same.

[Progressive Jones]

8. It kind of sucks that we have to count on the Jan 6th investigation to provide

some damage to the GOP, because that's the only thing that will shine a light on who is fucking everything up. It will sway some at election time, but I don't think it will help with all of the election rigging that the GOP is actively perpetrating in certain regions. Maybe I'm wrong.

[Uncle Joe]

9. I am a bit more optimistic,

despite their election rigging, I believe the Republicans will get their ass handed to them in November.

[Progressive Jones]

23. Deep down, I believe the same. Let's hope, Joe. nt

[onecaliberal]

6. They had to make all 52 republicans go on record.

[monkeyman1]

10. what record ,ya' go to do something before ya can have a record of something ?

[onecaliberal]

22. They refused to advance any rule for legislation supporting voting right. We all saw it.

[Freddie]

11. This is why McConnell would never bring anything to a vote

He didn’t want R Senators to have their names officially attached to voting against popular legislation. So yes, it did some good.

[Emile]

13. The republican voters will reward them for sticking together.

[Deminpenn]

12. Agree

In fact, in Pennsylvania every Dem who is currently running to replace Pat Toomey has pledged to vote to end the filibuster if elected to the Senate. The interesting part is that Conor Lamb, a proud moderate and centrist, is among them.

Also, jmho, but once the 1/6 committee hearings go live on TV and Americans hear the facts and the tick-tock, the fealty to Trump will collapse just like it did to Nixon during the Watergate hearings. That lead to the a tidal wave of Watergate reform candidates being elected in 1974 in both the House and Senate. I could see that happening again.

[Lars39]

17. Not sure...

Will we have any hearings if Sinema switches to Republican?!

[MichMan]

18. Even if we lose control of the Senate?

[Deminpenn]

20. It's a House committee, not a Senate committee

Control of the Senate is irrelevent. Further, the televised hearings will happen before the Nov election.
Remember the Watergate hearings happened in the summer and Nixon resigned in Aug of '74, just 2 months before the 1974 mid-terms.

[MichMan]

25. I thought you were referring to Senate candidates, since you mentioned Toomey

"In fact, in Pennsylvania every Dem who is currently running to replace Pat Toomey has pledged to vote to end the filibuster if elected to the Senate."

My question was, should any of them be elected, but we still lose control of the Senate, are they now pledging that they would vote with Republicans to get rid of the filibuster ?

[Deminpenn]

28. If Rs get control of the Senate and want

to pass something with 50 votes, they won't need any Dems to help them ditch the filibuster. They will all vote "aye" as a block like they always do.

[lindysalsagal]

14. Dems top ticket to bottom can campaign on it now.

Gonna generate lots of useful video.

[Patton French]

15. Not sure how useful it was (n/t)

[Samrob]

21. Useful to remind voters that 16 GOP had voted FOR voting rights before...

Their names ought to be on the short list for removal ASAP because they are not FOR democracy.

[totodeinhere]

24. I doubt it. A lot of stupid Americans can't even name their senators let alone hold them

accountable.

Poll: Majority of millennials can't name a senator from their home state

https://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/poll-millennials-state-senators-114867

[Uncle Joe]

26. Just keep the message simple, Republicans in Congress

voted against accountability, freedom and democracy, Democrats with the exception of two voted for it.

[pwb]

27. The two of them should be treated as spying on Democrats now

and kept out of meetings. We know Democrats and they are not.