The following is from a press release from Leader Bolding’s office [emphasis added]:
PHOENIX – House Democratic Leader Reginald Bolding released the following statement today following Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema’s floor speech defending the filibuster over renewed protections for voting rights.
“At the Arizona Legislature, we are at the front lines of the radical right-wing’s war on voting rights. New and more excessive restrictions on eligible voters are being introduced every day. The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and the Freedom to Vote Act would reinstate a federal legal backstop to reign in politicians and special interests who are intent on rolling back civil rights and ending democracy itself in our country. While Senator Sinema gives speeches, those enemies of democracy make more progress by the minute.
Senator Sinema defends the antiquated Jim Crow-era filibuster by arguing that any rights granted by passage of a new voting rights act under regular order could be rolled back in future years if Republicans regain power. I challenge her to step outside the DC bubble and take a closer look around her state and her country. Those rights are being systematically rolled back right now — here and in state legislatures around the country.
Given the choice to cement the legacy of John Lewis or stomp on it, I will never understand the speech Senator Sinema delivered today.”
If Democrats think the filibuster is a racist Jim Crow relic, then why did they just use it to kill a Ted Cruz bill that had 55 votes to sanction companies the were involved with the Nord Stream 2 pipeline? And why did they use it to kill over 300 Republican bills during the last year of the Trump administration? Talk about hypocrisy.
Why did the Dems use the filibuster?
Really?
Did you really ask that question?
Because it’s there, you freakin’ feeb.
Maybe you’re the dumbest man on the internet who doesn’t understand that the filibuster is undemocratic and un-American and needs to go?
No matter who uses it.
It’s a bad rule for everyone, you half-wit troll.
Good lord, it’s late, I’m at work, what are you doing trolling at one in the morning?
Maybe you just need some sleep, maybe you had a little too much scotch, IDK, Troll Boi, because you are not only missing the point, you are doing so in a public forum where other people can read your comments.
Delete your accounts and stop embarrassing my state, FFS.
And of course…
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You misspelled ‘common sense’ as ‘hypocrisy’ there, Johnny the Blog Jester. You really think everyone else is a moron with these arguments, don’t you?
I had to come back and double check my work.
And yes, it stands.
John Kavanagh is the dumbest man on the internet.
I still can’t believe he posted this on the WORLD WIDE WEB.