The voting rights struggle continues:
Senate Democrats united on Tuesday around a pared-down voting rights bill, escalating their efforts to build a case for aggressive action by Congress to push past Republican opposition and counter a rash of new G.O.P.-written ballot restrictions in states around the country.
Why do Republicans write all these voting restrictions? Because they can’t win if everyone can vote without interference.
Senator Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky Republican and minority leader, quickly dismissed the measure, reiterating his view that the legislation represented unnecessary federal meddling in elections that have historically been the province of the states.
Yes and historically some of the states allowed slavery, too. Fuck “historically.”
“There is no reason for the federal government to take over how we conduct elections,” Mr. McConnell, a longtime foe of Democratic election and campaign proposals, told reporters on Tuesday. “It is a solution in search of a problem, and we will not be supporting that.”
Oh really? No reason at all for the feds to protect voting rights?
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13 responses to “In search of a problem?”
Thank you for the photograph. And thank Whatever for people like Stacey Adams, who understands from experience what institutional racism is. It intrigues me why people who are, oh, so eager to quote Frederick Douglass & Thomas Sowell, cannot simply look about them and see what is there.
McConnell is an opportunist and a grub.He is the greatest argument for appointment of politicians by random nomination followed by a selection process: as with appointments to juries.
He arguably issed his vocation. He should have been born in North Korea.
Omar, ‘issing’ your vocation sounds so much better than ‘missing’ it! I know it was a mistyping, but it’s splendidly serendipitous!
I think it’s because there’s quite a choice of consonants you can put before ‘issing’.
Well, what if we give you a problem, then?
Time for some of the states to pass laws requiring the display of a valid vaccination card before being allowed to vote. Watch the Republicans spin on a dime.
“…a solution in search of a problem….”
This from the most powerful man in the party that obsesses over “voter fraud”.
Or that pretends to obsess over “voter fraud”; they know perfectly well the fraud is all theirs.
Sastra, I like that idea. When we consider how many poll workers are elderly, it seems almost prudent. They should have the right not to have the unvaccinated intrude into their personal space when they are working for the good of the community.
Ophelia,
Yeah, that’s why I used the scare quotes.
Yes, and they also know Trump lost the election, but won’t admit it. Cowards.
I know, but it’s so fraudulent that it’s fraudulent in more than one way – they pretend it’s fraud and they pretend to obsess about it. It’s impossible to tell the whole truth about them without using an absolute rash of scare quotes.
Why bother engaging with them at all? Just ask Manchin to write a Voter Rights bill (or rather someone who works for him) that he’ll consider weaseling around the filibuster for and do that. He and Sinema are the only ones they actually need to convince.
If you ask me, McConnell is out there just issing in the wind. ;-)