They started off describing this last week as bad for Biden. In detail, and harsher than I have heard a leftie TV show like Beat the Press than I have heard. More like Fox News than the nice democrat MSM.
They showed majority democrats jumping all over Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema for refusing to vote to kill the filibuster. Filibuster, for those of you just coming to this story, is a Senate rule allowing any Senator to require a 2/3rds majority to pass most bills. It protects the minority from the tyranny of the majority, something that has been a problem for democracies since Pericles ran Athens. For the majority to push thru something that the minority is against, the filibuster requires a good solid majority, not a tie vote broken by the vice president. The current 50-50 split of senators makes calling for a filibuster a bill killer. The democrats have some bills they want to pass that will never get 60 votes, so they want to scrap the filibuster and allow anything to pass with 51 votes. Fifty democrats plus a democrat vice president will get them 51 votes.
Frankly, the way things look today, the democrats will be in the minority by next year. At which time they will need a filibuster to prevent the Republicans from walking all over them with track shoes. Manchin and Sinema seem to understand this, Chucky the Schumer and Nasty Pelosi seem oblivious.
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