Note: Before I composed this post, I found out that Clueless Joe Manchin, which is what I'll refer to him now everytime I use his name, had come out in an op-ed saying he would not support the "For the People" act, which would protect some of the voting rights that are being taken away by Republicans in states across the land. And somehow Manchin can say that Democrats are "politicizing" voting rights. Well, it Democrats are politicizing them, then Republicans are weaponizing them.
In any case, before Clueless Joe's statement, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank wrote a very smart column suggesting that if Republicans filibuster the "For the People" Act, then the Democrats should bring up its provisions one at a time and see if the Republicans will filibuster/vote against all of them, even the popular ones. And now we can find out where Clueless Joe stands, too.
Will Republicans filibuster all of this?
"After the "For the People" Act fails, the Senate should bring up its popular and unobjectionable provisions, one at a time. If by some miracle Manchin succeeds in getting Republicans to support their passage, all the better. In the likely event he fails, it will be obvious to America, and hopefully to him, that Republicans have no interest in cooperation."
Here's one of his examples.
"The bill requires states to alert each other when voters apply for a driver’s license in a new state, to avoid duplicate voter registrations. Will Republicans filibuster this?"
Yeah, that's a threat to secure elections, right? I sure would like to see if the GOP would filibuster that; and if Clueless Joe Manchin would support them. And I'd like to hear his explanation, too.
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