Hypocrisy and lies from politicians are so rampant in Washington that hardly anybody pays them a lot consideration anymore. Maybe that’s the reason our cynicism about so many issues political deepens and mistrust of our establishments is pervasive.
A co-conspirator in all of that is Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who has set the center of the month as his goal for altering the filibuster rule that requires 60 votes to go most laws. That Schumer has opposed what he now proposes is well-documented for anybody taking the time to do even minimal analysis, which a lot of the main media seems unwilling to do.
In 2005, Schumer claimed that eliminating the filibuster would flip the nation “right into a banana republic, the place if you happen to don’t get your manner, you modify the principles. Are we gonna allow them to (presumably he meant Republicans)? It is going to be doomsday for Democracy if we do.” Nicely, then, has “doomsday” arrived and is Schumer its captain?
In 2017, Schumer stated if you happen to can’t get 60 votes “you shouldn’t change the principles.” Does anybody critically suppose that if Democrats had been the minority social gathering, which they doubtless can be after the subsequent election, that he would nonetheless favor elimination of the filibuster?
On the similar time, throughout affirmation hearings for Neil Gorsuch to grow to be an affiliate justice on the Supreme Court docket, Schumer stated of then Majority Chief Mitch McConnell, “He’s sure and decided to alter the principles and trample on Senate custom” to get a conservative nominee accepted.
Because the conservative Federalist Society accurately notes: “Our system leaves the small print of the election administration to particular person states. These particulars embrace the specifics of election day guidelines such because the time for opening and shutting polling locations, absentee poll procedures (together with emergency absentee balloting), early voting, registering to vote, and the regulation and prosecution of election irregularities and election crimes.”
Schumer jogs my memory of a quote from the late Groucho Marx: “These are my ideas and if you happen to don’t like them, effectively I’ve others.”
The Schumer initiative is an influence seize. The left, which now controls the Democratic Celebration, desires to federalize elections, eradicating from states their proper to resolve how they want to conduct their election procedures. Democrats are framing this as a civil rights and “equity” subject, however it’s not troublesome to see what their true objective is: the creation of an electoral system that can permit them a everlasting majority on the federal degree.
Already Democrats have succeeded in a variety of areas, together with prolonged voting hours and poll drop packing containers. The invoice backed by Schumer would get rid of the voter identification requirement and permit ballots that arrive after Election Day to be counted, amongst different adjustments. This will solely deepen the general public’s mistrust of election outcomes. If we predict it’s unhealthy now with the big quantity of people that proceed to imagine, with out proof, that the 2020 election was “stolen” from Donald Trump, wait till this monster is handed. It is going to solely divide us additional if that’s potential.
Luckily, there are some Democrats, corresponding to Senators Joe Manchin (WV) and Krysten Sinema (AZ) who’ve said their assist for persevering with the 60-vote requirement. One hopes, as with their opposition to President Biden’s huge social spending invoice, that they are going to keep on with their ideas.
A Wall Avenue Journal editorial bought to the center of Schumer’s hypocrisy and his try and hyperlink the disingenuously labeled “Voting Rights Act” to final 12 months’s Capitol riot. The editorial concluded that “is like evaluating felony justice progressives to those that attacked police and property at Black Lives Matter protests final 12 months. His intention is to not defend democracy, however to explode Senate guidelines for partisan achieve.”
Precisely.
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