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Voting Rights - The Democrats' ONLY PLAY

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The Democrats have many issues now to deal with: infrastructure, gun control, climate change and many others.  But the foundational issue is voting rights.  With Republican state legislatures passing laws in many states limiting voting options for many groups of American voters and the Republican senators showing that they will block all attempts to pass voting rights bills, there is only one option the Democrats have:

Democratic senators and House members must tell President Biden that they refuse to move on any and all other legislation, including infrastructure, until voting rights legislation is passed.  This means getting rid of the filibuster. No amount or  persuasion will get Republican to come to their side. Hence, it is critical that Manchin, Sinema and others be shown that they will not work on other bills no matter how important until there is at least a carve-out to eliminate the filibuster at least when it comes to issues relating to the preservation of democracy.

President Biden has tasked the Vice President to address this issue.  There is no strategy that she has, or that she can concoct that will successfully convince Republicans to join Democrats in this effort.  The only play available is to pressure Sinema and Manchin to agree to this carveout.  Persuasion will not work.  They have shown they are impervious to such efforts.  The only play is for all Democratic officeholders to tell Biden they are not going to move forward on any aspects of his legislative agenda until the voting rights issue is addressed fully.

If Biden is going to accomplish anything more than what has already been accomplished (covid relief bill and covid distribution), then the Democratic officeholders in Washington must tell Biden they refuse to move his agenda.  There is no other play that is available.

If anyone disagrees with this view and has other options, I would love to hear it.  But I defy anyone to devise a strategy that has a better chance of achieving the goals of getting either the John Lewis bill, the For the People Act or the Manchin bill passed absent this strategy.

  


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