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I Wish The Congressional Republicans Had Some Courage

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President Trump was elected by a large majority. The American voters approve of his agenda. So why in the world hasn’t Congress passed that agenda into law? Why has the SAVE Act, which 80+ percent of Americans support, not been passed? The Democrats are already saying that if they win the midterms that they will end the filibuster, so why haven’t the Republicans ended it to get President Trump’s agenda through? The primary elections on Tuesday showed voter support for President Trump’s candidates. Do the Republicans in Congress have any interest in representing the voters?

On Tuesday, Breitbart reported:

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Weeknight,” Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) argued that if Democrats take control of the Senate, they should get rid of the filibuster, “and no arcane Senate procedural rule should block people’s ability to be heard in their democracy.”

Warnock said, “I’m proud of all that we did when I first entered the Senate, it was the 117th Congress. We passed a lot of legislation. We cut child poverty by 40% for six months. We did infrastructure. We did clean energy, the biggest clean energy bill in human history, a whole lot of good, coming right out of the pandemic. I have to tell you, looking at what’s happening to our democracy right now, it was a mistake not to take voting rights first, to get the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act over the finish line. I’m proud of all that work we did. If I could, I’d trade all of that for the democracy, for the people’s voice.”

We are not a democracy–we are a representative republic.

These are some of the provisions of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act:

  • Restores provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that were invalidated by the Supreme Court.
  • Requires states with a history of discrimination to obtain federal approval before changing voting laws.
  • Expands access to early voting and vote-by-mail options for all voters.
  • Mandates that states enhance voter registration processes, including same-day registration.

Voting by mail is the least secure method of election. It is also responsible for a lot of the fraud in the 2020 election. The bill simply wants to bring back cheating.

The Republicans need to end the filibuster NOW!

The Truth Evidently Doesn’t Matter If You Are Raising Campaign Money

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Yesterday Just the News posted an article about a campaign email put out by the group 3.14 Action. The email was signed by Senator Raphael Warnock.  The email was about the new Georgia election law and contained false information. A spokesman for Senator Warnock’s campaign has explained that the Senator signed the email before the bill was actually drafted into law and that was the cause of the misinformation.

That is probably true, but it raises some questions. Why did the Senator sign the email before the bill was passed? Could he have not waited to see what was actually in the bill that was passed? Why was the focus of the email on the controversial items (that eventually got taken out of the bill)?

The article notes:

The email said that the legislation nixed no-excuse mail voting and restricted early voting on weekends, according to the Washington Post. However, those part of the legislation were in early proposals and never became law.

Georgia Republicans who drafted, passed and enacted the law say it attempts to secure the state’s voting system. Critics say the law, which now requires ID to request an absentee ballot, restricts voting, particularly for minorities.

Meanwhile as a result of Georgia’s attempt to promote election integrity, Major League Baseball has moved its All-Star Game to a place with more voting restrictions than the state it left. It moved the Game to a place with a less diverse population, hurting minority businesses in Georgia. That seems an odd move for people who were claiming that the Georgia voting law was racist.