In a party-line vote the Senate did not get enough votes to advance cloture of the federal election takeover bill. The senate voted 50-50 to advance the bill; however, 60 votes are needed to invoke cloture and continue. Effectively, the republican senators have blocked the advancement of the bill using the filibuster. Even for BlackRock republicans the ramifications of this bill were too toxic and too well known.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is now left with a decision of whether to change the rules of the Senate and eliminate the filibuster. The severe left-wing of the Democrat party want Schumer to eliminate the filibuster and make simple majority legislation the rule of the Senate. The pressure on Schumer will now intensify as the the federal takeover of election bill will be used as an example for their position.
WASHINGTON DC – Senate Republicans blocked Democrats’ sweeping elections and ethics reform bill on Tuesday, renewing calls from progressives to nix the legislative filibuster.
In a 50-50 vote, the Senate failed to move forward on the legislation, a top priority for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The path forward is now murky at best on an issue that Democrats say they need to resolve before the 2022 midterms.
Following the vote, Schumer vowed that Democrats would explore “every last one of our options” and pledged that the issue would come up for debate again in the Senate.
“Democrats are going to keep going all summer, all fall, as long as it takes,” Schumer said. “This concerns the very core of our democracy. So we will not let it go. We will not let it die. This voter suppression cannot stand. And we are going to work tirelessly to see that it does not stand.”
Republicans, however, remain vehemently opposed, arguing that the bill — which Democrats designated S. 1 to signify its importance — would amount to nothing more than the federalization of the U.S. election system. That means that Democrats would need to change Senate rules in order to pass the legislation. (read more)
If you want to get a gauge for the sentiment of the nation, check out the comments at the C-SPAN YouTube link.
Today was a staged event to give the impression Republicans are fighting the left.
To many RINOs have had their decepticon identity revealed and backlash and anger is growing. This was all a performance to give the impression that Republicans still have fight.
All of it was a smoke screen and distraction.
I don’t trust these RINOs for a second.
DD
Ditto. This is kabuki. McConnell doesn’t give a rat’s behind about anything they’re projecting right now.
This is a set-up for something even worse to come. Can’t wait to see what “compromise” the filthy Rinos roll out in order to be “bipartisan.”
*Spit*
Agree … the tragedy … imagine what could have been accomplished for America if these filthy RINO traitors had worked WITH President Trump during his 4 years in office ?!?!!
Friendly correction: Trump’s eight years in office.
He’d have served two (consecutive) terms if Republicans were actual patriots. ?
Join the GOP and take one of the 200K unoccupied Precinct Chairman positions. If we can make those positions MAGA positions – we will take over the Party!
I called and was a Precinct chair the next day. It did not cost anything and it plugged me into a network of people who feel just like me.
The day is soon coming when protests will need the cover of the GOP party just to walk down the street.
Let’s hope Blackrock Republicans catches on: more trenchant name than Corporatist.
Like Copperhead Democrats in the Civil War.
What the RINOs see is that, in “defeating” Trump, they’ve dodged a bullet that threatened their cushy sinecures.
If a bill’s name sounds enticing, it is full of toxic sludge. This bill is another Patriot Act. Actual patriots will be redefined as terrorist and the Patriot act used against them.
Trump has really yanked the rug off the criminal enterprise of Congress.
Alright DD I gotta ask, believe this comes from a place of bewilderment and fog. I am not trying to invoke any sort of facetious reasoning.
Hypothetically let’s say this holds. The laws stiff and the right takes back the House 2022. There’s even rumor that PDT may run for a Seat in FL. This would be a brilliant strategy as it would galvanize the right for the midterms. Trump may even become speaker. Old Chuckie would hate dealing with him.
So let’s not meander into 2024 and work with what we got. I would feel pretty good in that scenario; I could at least let the pressure off the lungs. My question if this did indeed happen what would it be classified as? The Deep State moderating the political balance stopping the left from ending the filibuster? Again we have to get there first before we go out on any limbs. But this article gave me the perfect scenario to question TPTB behind the curtain. Hope that makes sense; see what happens.
Those placing all their eggs on the 2022 or 2024 elections, may have those eggs crushed by the current communist regime rhat seized power through a well planned coup de’tat against our nation. Those that lie, cheat and steal to get their power and wealth, are not likely to give up peacefully. They’ve been rigging elections for decades, this last time the curtain was pulled back enough to see the little man in the curtained booth that pulled all the levers. They’re being exposed, but we have to face the thought that we will never have another free and fair election in our country if they get their way!
Your correct, they will not give up peacefully.
Very good questions and interesting strategy.
It probably is a staged event, even one that the Senate, politicians from both parties, needed so each can continue their media whining in order to generate campaign donor funds but
today it’s a Win.
Perhaps this weekend’s rally in Ohio and next week’s visit to the border by President Trump can push the energy of this Win into a more permanent reality.
Everything that can keep these politicians second guessing their status with the voters in their home States, throwing that sand in the machinery, might just pull it off. I truly think the parents making their voices heard at the local school board meetings is having a huge impact on all the politicians knowing the entire House is up for election next year.
Today’s win is perfect timing for President Trump to re-enter the scene.
100%. Just to get everyone’s mind off and THEN it gets slam dunked.
AND DO NOT THINK those that remain in jail from Jan 6th, IS NOT THE MESSAGE, you white, conservatives BEST NEVER, EVER, DARE COME TO DC AGAIN and PROTEST US, ANYTHING, THE govt? GOT THAT!! They will ROT in those jails forever and then tried and convicted OF SOMETHING…..YET, blacks can riot, loot, destroy, maim, kill ALL SUMMER and cost $BILLIONS and we turn the other way, let them walk loose and MAKE UP DAMN EXCUSES……LOOK at the DC destruction that took place before Trump left office….statutes destroyed, buildings destroyed, church burned, HOW MANY WERE ARRESTED And CONVICTED?????????
Better wake up people….see the trans Olympian….HER/HIS GOAL: WIN a medal and BURN THE AMERICAN flag on the podium…let that happen and see America go crazy…..just let that BS happen…..
See what school boards…little ole local school boards…SEIZING public education……destroying history…
THIS GOVT is CORRUPT from the White House to EVERY agency within the govt..and now include the military…
The federal law will take over b/c NOBODY can do anything any longer b/c EVERYTHING IS RACIST and RACISM…..
So, we kotow to any, every living soul in the name of racism REGARDLESS OF WHAT IT IS….
I’m DONE….voting doesn’t matter, Republicans can’t pee w/out getting Dem permission or told how to do it. They don’t fight, they don’t care, they don’t represent, THEY ONLY WANT $$$…I get 5/6 emails per day from every republican PAC, senate cmtee, house cmtee, presidential cmtte, RNC…and using everyone’s name under the sun: Sometimes Trump is asking, DeSantis is now asking, Majorie Greene…just begging, pleading for $$$ in the name of somebody that will trigger my wallet….YOU WILL GET ZERO……………ZILCH, burn in hell….
I’ve stopped watching Fox, Tucker, Ingraham….it’s a game everynight…it’s drama, it’s programmed, it’s a play to us…I don’t listen to Breitbart any longer, the 6-9 am show was ok for a while, but now that’s a one-note song…Marlowe wrote a book (like ALL the other conservatives that get peddled to us conservatives to make them rich) and now every segment, every story has to be a plug for, ‘I write about it in my book’……DONE…over…don’t play me to make yourself rich. IF you want to save us and the country, you don’t peddle books on me….
NOBODY is watching out for We The People NOR the Country…NOBODY.
Absolutely! It’s the Uniparty! The RINO’s have leveraged this for $$ and 2022. McConnell is the head of the serpent in the RINO Senate. Time to pull his pants down and expose his dirty laundry. Especially his benefits associated with his in-laws and China, not to mention the NCoC
HAD 4 emails about this overnight. FUNDRAISING…is ALL this is about for the R’s…..the country will be lost unless WE act now…we need HELP, we need to take back the House, Senate (THAT YOU HAD 100% in 2016, REMEMBER, and DID NOTHING????).
It’s a CHANNEL for the republicans to raise $$$ and act like they are doing something, when they are doing nothing and have done nothing since Reagan days, other than get defeated….
Smucky Schemer would look better with a Dirty Hairy Reid-style black eye.
I think you mean Shucky Choomer
50/50? Doesn’t the VP of the USA break that tie? Humm.
They need 60 for cloture. Heels Up is irrelevant right now. That’s why they want to eliminate the filibuster.
Horizontal is irrelevant every day of the week and twice on Sunday. ?
Suspicious cat should be on high alert.
it DOESN’T matter for a “cloture” vote…MAYBE you have heard of the end result they typically call it a FILIBUSTER which requires 3/5 of those present to close debate on the matter
What is Schumer’s goal? Is it to turn New York City into a third world hellhole? Does he want his grandchildren to have an armed escort with body armor when they go shopping for school clothes in Manhattan. Do these people see what destruction the end game is going to have when they finally destroy White Christian America!
Yes , yes and yes.
Agreed… oh and ad power and money! That’s actually what drives everything.
When the threat of a filibuster causes a Senate bill to be pulled……
Keep it up until the DEMocRATs actually work across the aisle and propose bi-partisan bills.
If they pass this, voting will be irrelevant, unless we get in the cheating game as well. We need bigger truck and bigger boxes with more fake ballots to deliver. We need an army of cheaters all over the country. Otherwise. Why bother voting?
One side cheats the other gets cheated.
Schumer is saying that he has a year to wear down the fake opposition and claim victory.
Maybe he’s correct. Hope not.
If ever there was a time to email, phone, write, fax, or text, your (R) reps and let them know how you feel, this is it.
If the Demoncrats drag this abomination over the line, there’s not much left of a Republic.
Have you actually TRIED calling…KNOW what you get…a damn answering machine. And from a staffer, know what happens at day’s end. ALL those msgs get DELETED……..
I have found that I get a live person if I call their state office. They often have more info on where the rep stands on an issue.
This foreigner wants to get this straight.
So you need 60 votes to pass legislation, but 50 + VP to cancel the 60 vote rule.
This is nonsense on stilts
Filibuster is not in the constitution, it is just a tradition to protect minority rights. And traditions are not really respected anymore.
Need 60 votes (cloture) to end the filibuster and move the bill to the floor for a vote.
Use to require 67 votes (2/3) to end the filibuster. Democrat controlled Senate lowered the threshold to 60 in 1975 in the aftermath of Watergate.
60 votes are required to start debating a bill. The point of this is you have to have bipartisan support to even discuss legislation in the Senate – the Senate is supposed to be where the compromises are worked out. Or stupid bills dies. There’s a lot of stupid right now.
you need 3/5 of those present to end the debate on the matter (cloture)…the MATTER, in this case, was floor debate on the bill to try to unconstitutionally implement federal rules for STATES’ elections
With the cadre of decepticons we have it won’t take much for Schuuuumer to get his way.
It is to early to pass this Bill. The bill needs passed closer to the 2022 election cycle.
I don’t have much faith in the courts, but if the bill is passed to soon then the courts may have time to determine the bill/law unconstitutional before the 2022 elections. No Democrat and some Republicans would not want that to occur. Pass the bill late in the election cycle and provide very little time for the bill/unconstitutional law to make it through the corrupt court systems.
It also gives more time for Biden to seat/seed some more corrupt judges onto the court benches.
Clever. Snakes.
Could States just ignore the Bill if it is unconstitutional?
Yes. And they should. An unconstitutional law is not a law.
Hmm, now this observation sounds right on the money.
So, lefties? Is Biden still the ‘lesser of two evils’?
Seems to me it was evil versus your own hatred.
Presumably Republicans have lawsuits AGAINST this unconstitutional BILL ready to go if it is passed?
Im sure in a separate reality. The uniparty said no, so expect a little kabuki, and then its back to the peoples work!
I’m sure Ronna’s on it.
Why would Ronna be on it? She has nothing to do with passing legislation.
Everything’s connected, one way or the other. Ask Stacy.
No Republican Senator has sued Biden yet for forcing our country to rejoin the Paris Agreement despite the fact that in order for treaties to go into effect, they must be ratified by the Senate.
A loud MAGA warning straight ahead, The Perfectly Timed Trump Rally this Saturday and the first against a decepticon Republican…
The voter fraud act, better known as the people act, failed to get the votes to open debate. Even the rinos that might have thought of joining the democrats, realized that the democrats would do away with the Republican Party if the people act ever became law. Elections at every level would be democrat controlled, and this great country, would become just another third world disaster, made so by the ever incompetent, but power hungry democrats.
it not only attempts to federalize universal mail-in voting and banishing voter ID, but would require congressional approval for federal candidates to even run…if they are deemed to have disseminated “misinformation” they can be removed from the ballot
Who’s watching the Watchers, though?
And if they jam their agenda through, it’ll really be the end for them because, come the next election, it will be a landslide and the same measures they used can be used against them; it will be all out political civil war. And this time, they’ll lose.
I think this sentiment fits in – yes, they will lose:
If this passes, the only landslides occurring are for the Democrats and pretty much endlessly at that.
Some talk of theater and it might be accurate. The danger is the poison of “compromise” and the insane willingness of the GOPe to accept the premise of any lame-brained stupidity presented by the lefites; no one of any stature is standing for the Constitution.
To steal the midterms and have permanent rule they need this to pass asap!
They stole the last mid terms w/o it.
The only thing between them and their next theft is US.
This is a stepping stone. They are carefully moving toward eliminating the filibuster rule and there is nothing the republicans can do to stop them other than make some sort of deal that lets the democrats get their way without eliminating the rule. The uniparty leaders have it all plotted out and their media accomplices will start the propaganda machine to brainwash the sheeple. Letting your government cheat in elections and get away with it has consequences. We are following the same footsteps as Venezuela.
Good! The “For The Cheaters Act” went down in flames AGAIN.
It’s not that the Democratic party is so repressive, it’s that they’re so open about it!
I have told people for a long time that Bernie was just their warm-up act.
“Even for BlackRock republicans the ramifications of this bill were too toxic and too well known.”
All the comments suggesting this is theater by the RINOs and there’s something worse they have agreed to in the offing isn’t logical.
There’s nothing hidden under the plate when it comes to the Republicans. If this bill passes they will lose every election going forward and be barred from the trough of government largesse. They aren’t going to surrender their share of the power and profit.
They didn’t do it for us or the good of the country, but rather as a means of self-preservation.
Schumer has another consideration.
By 2022 most MAGA republicans will have learned how the 2020 election
fraudstealfortification was accomplished.Those MAGA republicans are very likely to do what the socialists did in 2020.
Pres Trump won a whole boatload more counties than either Obama or JoeBama.
How many MAGA county election boards will fortify the 2022 election as the socialists did in 2020?
The Democracy that Schumer and Pelosi constantly proclaim they are protecting is a myth. Democrats in Congress only represent those two, not the people who sent them there. And those two follow orders from outsiders.
Checked my hometown newspaper this morning, in reliably blue western PA. The AP-penned headline screams, “GOP Votes Voter Rights Bill”. Not a mention of the federal power grab, oh no. Just gnashing of teeth over “minority access to balloting” and yada yada. The leftards are nothing if not consistently ignorant and duplicitous.
When are we going to get full and fed up with pandering to “minorities?” If they can’t wipe their butts after 60 years of integration, “un”Civil Rights, and affirmative discrimination, umm, action, let them lie in their filth.
Schumer is incapable of speaking the truth. Democrats are always putting their power first, we the people second. He sickens me.
Kind of keep an eye on the Washington DC Statehood issue, reappearing like a poisoned mushroom.
This bill was a step too far, but the Uniparty agrees on one thing: prevent President Trump from reelection in 2024.
It’s all scripted folks
Our so called elected or should I say appointed leaders are basically crisis actors.
They think they are great at solving crisis that don’t exist or that they themselves create.
Gallows at the national mall would be a great start
Never forget how we arrived at this point: The gutless weasel weak kneed slimy low down fake conservative Repubs thats how. Dung Zhou Mitch should be screaming every day how the election was stolen and the Kid From Deliverance is illegitimate. Why isnt he? Wheres Salon Boy McCarthy.. why isnt he doing the same? Collusion.
So the democrats would be ok with “the Russians” submitting ballots via the US Postal Service?
Needs more than just a change of Senate rules…It would need a CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT passed FIRST, to take the administration of elections, guaranteed by the US Constitution to the STATES, and give that to the feds.
FIRST…
Its illegal and impossible to amend the Constitution without a constitutional amendment! Its the Supreme Law of the Land. That means it CANNOT be changed by any law less than an amendment.
And not ONE of our elected representatives will stand on that ground!
Disgusting. Frightening.
This is staged and never meant to pass. Defeat allows the left to continue to lie with the media complicity, simply as a ploy for 2022. If it did pass they know it would not be liked by America and it might cause a backlash. No, it was meant to fail because the left can only win on lies. The truth is never in their favor.
And talk about lying liars, senator Blumenthal claiming that republicans have abused the filibuster and dark money is the problem, has just been crowned “king of liars” for that whopper. And they say these things with full confidence the media will help spread the narrative to the perpetually uninformed who will then vote/cheat for them.
All this talk about eliminating the filibuster, and the drama and intrigue of the 50-50 vote on this bill is total nonsense.
The “For The People Act” would be an amendment to the Constitution, since it asserts federal control over the administration and governance of elections, which is clearly and plainly stated as a power of the states in the US Constitution, as well as in the constitutions of the various states.
A simple Congressional majority cannot amend the Constitution, even if there was no filibuster rule in the Senate.
The Democrats would need 2/3 approval in BOTH HOUSES to amend the Constitution–which they clearly do not have.
The “For The People Act” is an illegal, unlawful, unconstitutional power grab by the Democrats.
WHY DOES NO ONE SAY THIS??
Maybe we’re now accustomed to a utterly useless Roberts Supreme Court, which has 3 times ruled in favor of the unconstitutional ObamaCare, and refused to EVEN HEAR the evidence of voter fraud and election theft in California v. Pennsylvania.
It is hard to believe that even Chief Justice Roberts can reasonably argue that this bill is not a direct violation of the Elections Clause of the US Constitution.
Nobody is saying that because the Constitution allows Congress to make election laws that override those made by the States.
Article I
Section 4
Clause 1
The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.
Well… lol… maybe the Republican RINOS are getting the message loud and clear. We hate you guys *more* than we hate the Democrats right now. You betrayed us lock, stock, and barrel on January 6th. Mike Pence, Liz Cheney and their ilk can eat cake. Even Donald J. Trump can’t pull the Republicans back from the edge of the cliff right now.
All 50 Democrats in the Senate and most in the House voted to federalize elections which is unconstitutional. Yet they all voted for it.
Murky and Collins, can’t you see that reps aren’t voting on the merits? They are strictly partisans. Do you think not one of them has a conscience and would vote their conscience like you claim to do? That means you have to be partisan to defeat them. It’s not about right and wrong. Get a clue.