Michigan Democrat Calls the Senate Filibuster Racist, Forgetting That Dems Use It, Too – Opinion

Michigan Democrats are an exceptional group. It’s the same with Michigan Republicans. Maybe it is something in the water here that makes the majority of the elected officials from the Great Lake State make you wonder what these buffoons would be doing if it weren’t for the low bar to leap into elected office.

The only thing I can think about is Tik Tok’s influencer.

The latest example of a head-scratching quote or action from an elected Michigan official comes courtesy of a founding member of “The Squad,” Representative Rashida Tlaib, who is a Democrat from the city of Detroit and some of its suburbs. Tlaib had a sit-down with Axios’ Jonathan Swan and covered a number of issues — but this little nugget about the filibuster being a tool of racists is truly unique.

Also quite frankly dumb.

Starting at Detroit News…

U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Detroit, has suggested that lawmakers who fight to keep the legislative filibuster in the Senate are motivated in part by racist ends, saying its use tends to be triggered for bills “where it is about uplifting Black folks in our country and protecting them.”

“I’d look at history: There was anti-lynching legislation. It is blocked by the filibuster. The Civil Rights Act of ’57 — use the filibuster to block it,” she told Axios. “And now the freedom to vote — using the filibuster to block it.”

When asked about Democrats’ deploying the filibuster when they were in the minority to block certain GOP legislation, Tlaib said it “would have been unfortunate, of course,” had they not had the filibuster.

“But I tell you this much. Maybe it would have created the movement that needed to happen outside of Congress to demand accountability, right?” Tlaib said. “But I don’t want something to be used over and over again to stop protecting my Black neighbors. And it seems that’s when it gets triggered the most.”

So it would have been “unfortunate” if the Democrats would not have been able to block GOP legislation in the past without the filibuster but it is a racist tool so abolish it. This is a new approach to American governance.

Tlaib could have looked at the history in her own way if she was really interested. It is clear that some very bad legislation has not been passed by the upper chamber because of the filibuster, or even its threat. It has helped to focus the nation on any issue being debated on the Senate floor, which is often a positive thing for the republic.

Now, of course, being she is a member of the House of Representatives and lately, the Pelosi-led chamber has been passing crap out of that chamber faster than a Candian Goose, I’m sure Tlaib much prefers how it works over there under Democratic Party control. This non-strategic thinker doesn’t see much beyond November 2022. The polls show that this year will be terrible for anyone with a “D” after their names.

I’m sure, despite her statement from the article above…

“Even the history behind the filibuster has proven over and over again, it’s just not good for our country,” she said.

If she joins the minor party and the Senate is again controlled by Mitch McConnell, she may have a second thought.

Joe Manchin, West Virginia’s white senator from West Virginia, will probably not be as hated by the Dems of D.C. any more. I am especially worried if Manchin does indeed use the filibuster against a GOP bill.

Is the filibuster used in the past to support racist and idiotic ideas? Yup. Tlaib’s fellow Democrat and Grand Kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan — and also a close pal of Joe Biden — Robert Byrd, used it to stymie legislation, being he was a racist.

The filibuster can be used for many other issues, and it has not been used in connection with race. So to say that it is a racist instrument is ridiculous. However, this is what our Michigan minders claim once more as if they have an educated understanding of history.

Michigan needs to have more bottled water.