Senate Democrats wanted to manufacture a political optic using the hot button issue of abortion. The senate pushed a bill for a massive expansion of abortion, far beyond Roe -v- Wade, to the floor. However, the bill needed 60 votes to pass cloture, end debate.
Embarrassingly, and in a pure political stunt, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer summoned Kamala Harris to the upper chamber in the event she was needed for a “tie-breaking” vote. However, cloture requires 60 votes, not 50, so the optics of Harris only highlighted the insufferable politics.
The cloture vote failed 49-51, far short of the 60 votes needed to end debate and attempt to pass the bill. Democrat Senator Joe Manchin voted with republicans to block the cloture effort. The federal abortion legislation now disappears back into the filing cabinet from which it came.
WASHINGTON – […] In a 49-51 vote, the Senate rejected the Democratic legislation, with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and all Republicans voting against the measure. While the outcome was no surprise and mirrored a similar vote on abortion protections the Senate took in February, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer suggested the court’s draft opinion, published by POLITICO last week, had raised the stakes.
“Today’s vote is one of the most consequential we will take in decades because for the first time in 50 years, a conservative majority, an extreme majority on the Supreme Court, is on the brink of declaring that women do not have freedom over their own bodies,” Schumer said in a floor speech Wednesday morning, adding that the decision “will live in infamy.” (read more)
According to Manchin’s earlier statement, “Democrats are “trying to make people believe that this is the same thing as codifying Roe v. Wade. And I want you to know, it’s not,” he argued, referring to the bill’s ban on some state restrictions on the procedure currently allowed. “This is not the same. It expands abortion.”
Kamala Harris has a sad moment in the Senate, created by Chuck Schumer {Direct Rumble Link} WATCH:
The people running the Democratic Party are not looking for anyone who is both compos mentis and a moderate. That rules out Joe Manchin. Joe Biden is relatively moderate but his mind is gone and he’s not running anything. Marxists behind the scenes are running the so called “Biden Administration.” Anyone mentally there enough to actually be president would need to be a radical.
It appears that they chose him as the puppet because the true radicals behind the strings would terrify the American people enough to shut er down! He’s a puppet but also seems like an actor! He does NOT look the same as he did years ago!!!!!!!
He hasn’t aged well and the plastic surgery job(s) didn’t help! He looks like he’s 130 y.o. The two strokes should have put him out of commission. He is NOT fit to be living let alone the leader of the free world. The USA is a joke around the world.
I love….Kamala has a sad moment!!!!!!! lol
Love the picture of the baby. I think the Conservative’s #1 – have a great sense of humor and #2 – are better looking mainly because they are happier and have a positive attitude. Just look at some of those protestors. You can see the anger ugliness in their faces.
I respectfully disagree.
Sundance, I don’t think you needed to publish that picture to make your point. It is gratuitous.
We say that all the time: conservatives are happier and have a sense of humor. The only time the left is happy is when they are ruining our lives.
Good.
I’ve been a lifelong Democratic and I have no idea what has happened to my Party. I know I didn’t vote for ANY of this. Drain the Swamp.
Tell all your friends!! Welcome aboard the freedom train !!
Get all your Dem friends to watch 2000 Mules, they’ll understand how Biden didn’t get 81 million votes. He got 81 million ballots. They cheated and rigged the 2020 election.
Many States have passed laws limiting and/or denying abortion.
And these get pursued in the Courts over and over again.
It’s a sure sign the previous ruling was not in line with what States and US citizens had in mind.
So what better way than to allow States to make their own laws regarding abortion?
Alito is right. Not only to put it back to the States but insisting elected officials, not SC, decide these types of issues not gteed by Constitution.
Democrats trying to pass laws is the same as trying to make a milkshake with a chainsaw.
Kamala is no AOC. Can’t summon tears on command for staged photo op.
Missed it by …that much!
I guess it’s back to the inkwell for Chuckles the Clown …