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What do stimulus checks have to do with this bill?
Manchin is explicitly open to this and Sinema hasn't ruled it out.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...uster-n1261000Under current rules established in 1975, the onus is on the majority to find 60 votes to proceed on legislation. If 41 or more senators vote against it, the bill stalls and there's nothing the majority can do. Merkley calls it "a no show, no effort, silent, invisible" blockade.
A talking filibuster would flip that onus, requiring a group of 41 senators to hold the floor and take turns talking incessantly — to air their grievances with the legislation being considered.
Eventually, Merkley explained, one of two things will happen: The majority party will lose its nerve and pull the bill, or the number of senators present will fall under 41 and enable the majority to advance the bill with a three-fifths majority.
Last edited by Winehole23; 03-13-2021 at 05:03 PM.
Both manchin and sinema, not running in 2022, could hurt Dem candidates badly in 2022
if they block $15/hour and block other For The People bills by keeping the filibuster.
Manchin already had big backlash in WVA for not supporting $15
Last edited by boutons_deux; 03-13-2021 at 05:42 PM.
updated
Manchin excludes a voting rights carve out bill, Sinema insists on a 60 vote filibuster. If that holds, HR 1 is dead.
Time to game plan alternatives.
Time running out on HR 1
Dems are not so serious about winning the midterms or the 2024 general election, it would seem.
pretty much
the Capitalist/Christian Nationalist FASCISM in evitable
Repugs and right wing hate media aren't even trying to hide it, eg:
Did Tucker Carlson just reveal his ‘deranged right wing vision’ for America?
https://www.rawstory.com/tucker-carlson-hungary
After Trash buddied with Duterte, Turkey, Bolsonaro, Orban, and sucked off Pootin, while alienating ALL of USA's democratic allies
Last edited by boutons_deux; 08-07-2021 at 09:57 AM.
GA targeting black folks for voter purge
LMAO Posting anything that race hustler has to say and proclaiming it as actual pol discussion when that dumb lies her ass off daily on tv. Joy Reid!
Crystal Ball reads the tea leaves on redistricting.
tl;dr
Dems are ed in the midterms at a minimum.
https://centerforpolitics.org/crysta...uthern-prizes/
Beyond the minimum, Dems and America are ed for decades under Capitalist/Christian Nationalist FASCISM
Repug gerrymandering, voter suppression, election fraud will purge nearly every Dem Rep from Confederate/red states,
whose population is a national minority but empowered to rule as a minority by the ed up Cons ution.
America is ed and un able (peacefully)
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