January 20, 2022

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WASHINGTON (AP) – Voting legislation that Democrats and civil rights leaders say is vital to protecting democracy collapsed late Wednesday when two senators refused to join their own party in changing Senate rules to overcome a Republican filibuster after a raw , emotional debate.

The outcome was a stinging defeat for President Joe Biden and his party , coming at the tumultuous close to his first year in office.

Despite a day of piercing debate and speeches that often carried echoes of an earlier era when the Senate filibuster was deployed by opponents of civil rights legislation , Democrats could not persuade holdout senators Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia to change the Senate procedures on this one bill and allow a simple majority to advance it.

“ I am profoundly disappointed ” Biden said in a statement after the vote.

However , the president said he is “ not deterred ” and vowed to “ explore every measure and use every tool at our disposal to ~~stand up for democracy~~ to permanently rig future elections for my party’s victory ”…

Voting rights advocates are warning that Republican-led states nationwide are passing laws making it more difficult for Black Americans and others to vote by consolidating polling locations , requiring certain types of identification and ordering other changes.

( Why ? … Do the Dems think the Blacks are too stoopid to understand how to get proper ID ? … Maybe you should look into that !!! ) …

Vice President Kamala Harris briefly presided over the Senate b, able to break a tie in the 50-50 Senate if needed , but she left before the final vote. The rules change was rejected 52-48 , with Manchin and Sinema joining the Republicans in opposition.

The nighttime voting brought an end , for now , to legislation that has been a top Democratic priority since the party took control of Congress and the White House.

Both Manchin and Sinema say they support the legislation , but Democrats fell far short of the 60 votes needed to push the bill over the Republican filibuster. It failed to advance 51-49 ( and here’s the ‘ game ‘ being played here in regard to the above mentioned ‘ for NOW ‘ ) on a largely party-line vote … Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer , D-N.Y. , cast a PROCEDURAL VOTE against , so the bill could be considered later …

This tactic gives the far left wingnuts a bit more time to either ‘ convince ‘ ( or bribe ! ) Manchin and Sinema , or figure out some conniving way to threaten them financially or otherwise ! …

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