CBS News and Senator Elizabeth Warren, D-MA, spent Monday night and Tuesday morning together in open partnership. They strategized over 23 minutes how to move forward with their so-called “voting rights agenda”, removing the filibuster and primarying Democrats who disagree with them. “anti-Democratic” Senate.
Let’s start with The Late ShowStephen Colbert is hilariously dull. Boasting “it’s always a shot in the arm to have you here,” He asked her to tell him. “how did we get back here that we need” Voting rights protections, as far back as 1957 “Martin Luther King Jr. called voter restrictions”As in the actual one “a tragic betrayal of the highest mandates of our democratic tradition.”
Warren created a cartoonish scene of arguing in America. Until 2013, voting was mostly unaffected and bipartisan. Shelby County v. Holder decision.
Putting aside how, as we’ve pointed out, The entire concept is falseShe added, “Republican state legislatures…are trying to outdo each other to keep people of color” And “college students from voting” while stealing elections through means like gerrymandering (even though Warren’s state has a 9-0 Democratic House delegation).
Before a break, Colbert demanded to know why Democrats didn’t first focus on voting (versus, say, COVID-19): “[V]You must have oting rights first. Everything else will be a waste of time.[T]If these restrictions on voting rights are passed, there won’t actually be representation of the American people. It’s not fourth or fifth. Why is it where it is?”
Colbert had two Warren meltdowns. comparedOur time is not the same as it was in mid-1960s. Blood Sunday happened then. We don’t know if there will be more violence before these things improve. “Are things going to have to get much worse before they get any better? What is going to break, in your opinion, this moral failing, this deadlock?”
Colbert asked Warren straight out if she would end filibuster. She answered, “Yes, I will,” which lead her to say that not only would she, but also would. falsely claim doing so wouldGo to a government controlled by people to truly honor the vision of the founders. “majority rule.”
Colbert will be the final block. went down the terrifying road of insisting that, if Democrats don’t get their way, the Senate should be killed because it’s “the most anti-Democratic institution next to the judiciary” and he doesn’t “understand what possible, positive purpose [it] provides” (click “expand”):
COLBERT: Hey, everybody! Here we are again with Senator Elizabeth Warren. If you can’t get rid of the filibuster, what about — and just hear me out and try to hear this objectively.
WARREN I’m ready.
COLBERT – What if the Senate were to be red? [LAUGHTER]It is 100% serious. It is the most anti-Democratic institution next to the judiciary because the judiciary is only the way it is because the Senate is —
WARREN: Because the Senate —
COLBERT: — the way it is. No one would drop a single tear — you’ve already got tenure, you can go back to your other job. You’ll be fine, spend more time with Bailey and Bruce, okay?
WARREN: [INAUDIBLE]
COLBERT: I don’t understand what possible, positive purpose the United States Senate provides right now.
(….)
COLBERT: But how would you feel — how would you feel about the filibuster then if you were on the sort of business end of that?
WARREN: My money is on democracy. [APPLAUSE] If they have a majority —
COLBERT: But it’s not —
WARREN: — so be it.
COLBERT: — it’s an anti-democratic institution. That’s just it.
WARREN: No, but that’s —
COLBERT: 41 million Americans are represented more by — by your side than the Republicans and, yet, they could get one more vote.
Things didn’t get any more adversarial on Tuesday’s CBS Mornings.
“Look who’s in our green room. This is Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren. She’s here to talk about the roadblocks standing in the way of President Biden’s agenda. We have questions and she has answers,”In a tease, Nate Burleson boasted of his co-host.
In another tease, co-host and Democratic donor Gayle King peddled Warren’s false claim about “democracy” being “on the line.”
Co-host Tony Dokoupil did open by citing Biden’s low poll numbers and wanted to see if she agreed “voting rights legislation…is dead without” Manchina, Sinema
Warren lied about the GOP “keep[ing] people from voting,” But Dokoupil, his associates, plowed ahead.
After he followed up by asking if she thought Sinema “[had] a point” that eliminating the filibuster would worsen the partisan divide, King expressed frustration their team wasn’t successful (click “expand”):
KING: Senator, it seems that people stop hearing you after a while. This just feels like there is a lot more screaming, hooting, and na na na na. It is also difficult to implement the Build Back Better Plan, as Senator Sinema or Senator Manchin.
WARREN: Yep.
How do you get past this obstacle? You all seem very positive and believe you cannot give up on hope. But after some time, reality sets in and you need to move in another direction.
WARREN: Okay, sol, look, let’s do a little reality.
KING: Okay.
WARREN: What were our conditions a year ago? In the United States Capitol, we were still sweeping up blood and glass.
KING: Yes.
WARREN: There was an armed rebellion.
BURLESON: Mmm.
KING: Yes.
WARREN: People couldn’t get into line for vaccines. That is now over. Vaccines and boosters can be found everywhere. Get your booster and vaccine.
KING: Yes.
WARREN: They work if you don’t have them, and we also approved a rescue package.
King swayed to constructive criticism and offered Warren the chance to offer his opinion. “break [Build Back Better] up so you can get something accomplished”Dokoupil suggested that the child tax credit might be an option.
Burleson worked his way in, asking about primarying Manchin and Sinema with Dokoupil wondering what they’ll do with likely only a year left in control of Congress (click “expand”):
BURLESON: In — in 2024, should Manchin and Sinema be primaried?
WARREN
BURLESON: Okay. I want to ask you about 2024. Are you convinced that Vice President Biden can do the job?
WARREN I will support him.
KING: His approval ratings are some of the lowest that they’ve been for a very long time.
WARREN: I — I understand that. We’ve only just completed the first quarter. This is the beginning of the second quarter. We have a lot to do and a lot more time.
DOKOUPIL: But you only have probably less than a year —
KING: Yes.
DOKOUPIL: — before you lose both the Senate and the House.
WARREN – Ah, bit your tongue.
DOKOUPIL: All the polls —
WARREN: Keep your mouth shut.
DOKOUPIL: — the polls are very, very bad, right? Gallup’s poll showed that Americans preferred Republicans over Democrats by five points.
WARREN: It is me.
DOKOUPIL: The year began with insurrection, a nine point advantage and the DOKOUPIL. Now, in the fourth quarter, it was a five-point advantage to the Republicans, so something’s not right here.
“[W]Why doesn’t it get done? You can see that individual ideas within the Democratic Party…are extremely popular if you take a look at polls. Then you look at Democrats and often they are not popular,”Dokoupil was later added.
Headed into a local weather break, Burleson thanked Warren for her “passion” and “for continuing to fight.”
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