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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy is infrastructure next when our democracy is in jeopardy?
Am I missing something?
47 states are trying to make it harder to vote and/or pointless to vote.
Now the QOP is attempting to penalize companies who speak out against the Jim Crow 2 laws. This will likely cause many companies to stay silent on this issue. How is this OK?
This is a 20 alarm fire!
Right now, we have the WH, Senate, and House. The Democratic majority we have in the Senate could be lost at any moment due to a death or unexpected retirement! Move on this NOW!! No more excuses!
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Fullduplexxx
(7,811 posts)Unless sb1 is passed
MaryMagdaline
(6,848 posts)is leaving us behind in infrastructure. Its 5O years overdue. We can have both.
Crunchy Frog
(26,539 posts)Fullduplexxx
(7,811 posts)Lunabell
(5,889 posts)I believe they are able to multi task.
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)WarGamer
(11,973 posts)HR1 will be a war.
Will take months.
And no indication that Manchin and Sinema will throw the filibuster off the cliff.
Strategically smarter to pursue infrastructure now because it's NOT the "Hill to die on" for the GOP
Oh and... Barf, GoodHair, Handmaiden, Sleepy, Scalito and JR will probably toss it in the trash if it were to pass.
mahatmakanejeeves
(56,713 posts){edited to note that Lunabell expressed the same sentiment}
milestogo
(16,829 posts)I mean what kind of legislation that's likely to get passed?
essaynnc
(791 posts)I believe that the infrastructure bill can be passed with a simple majority, due to reconciliation, and the HR1 has to overcome the filibuster. Please correct me if I'm incorrect. Let's accomplish a few more good things, then it'll be even more disastrous for the GQP to try to block.
Patterson
(1,525 posts)ProfessorGAC
(64,184 posts)Passing a popular bill that creates jobs, improves roads & other travel will get swing voters to want to stay the course!
ecstatic
(32,532 posts)as they see fit. Where will all these new votes come from? trumpers?
Honestly, if these Jim Crow laws aren't stopped through some sort of federal action before Georgia's next election this fall, I'll view it as a betrayal.
I'm not saying this as a threat, I'm saying I will be genuinely hurt and potentially unable to look past the fact that my right to vote wasn't a priority for the party I worked so hard to elect.
uponit7771
(90,193 posts)... to get through the appeals process's with the courts.
It's being held up with Manchin and the other assholes who have convinced themselves the kGQP still want democracy; they don't.
csziggy
(34,115 posts)Which will make Democratic candidates more popular and more likely to be elected.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)both a giant weapon against the enemy, and to inspire those who've indifferently letting our democracy slip away to believe it's worth holding onto after all.
meadowlander
(4,351 posts)Haggard Celine
(16,813 posts)That's the people's focus right now. They needed the stimulus to help them through the crisis and the unemployment benefits and now they need jobs. The infrastructure bill will do it in a big way. It's what people need and it will get us votes from a lot of people so that we can overcome those bullshit voting laws.
onecaliberal
(32,373 posts)Shermann
(7,313 posts)Assuming border security is completely off the table, most of the rest shouldn't be highly partisan.
Roads, bridges, water, schools...it's about America.
That said, I expect some bickering about mass transit and energy.
PortTack
(32,491 posts)neither are quick to give lip service. Amy told Rachael they had a plan and did not really expand on it.
It has been discussed by legal scholars that the filibuster is unconstitutional. Maybe thats the direction they are going. The filibuster is not a law..just senate rules