Greetings. I am a voting constituent in rural west Texas.
Happy to report that my stimulus check has today appeared in my bank account. No thanks to you.
How many other of your constituents may feel the same way? Y’all sure made a miscalculation on this one. I’m not sure you could have proven that your political calculations top helping the country and its people back on its feet any more clearly.
To that end, I’m watching the wrangling over changes to the filibuster. It seems apparent to more than myself that if one half of our political system refuses to act in any semblance of good faith in order to govern, that something needs to give.
Especially if that lack of good faith is a direct and calculated effort to disenfranchise American voters in order to consolidate undeserved power.
“Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell today warned Democrats in the Senate not to get rid of the filibuster to pass voting rights legislation.
“Nobody serving in this chamber can even begin, can even begin, to imagine what a completely scorched-earth Senate would look like,” he said. But, in fact, they can, because it was McConnell himself who got rid of the filibuster to hammer through Trump’s Supreme Court nominees, and who pushed through Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, which benefited only the very wealthy, by using a technique that avoided the filibuster.
McConnell warned that, without the filibuster, he would defund Planned Parenthood, pass anti-abortion legislation, and create national concealed-carry gun laws. But all of these measures are quite unpopular in the nation, so it’s not clear that these are threats the Democrats want to avoid. It’s entirely possible that permitting the Republicans to push through those measures would hurt the Republicans, rather than the Democrats.”
After such a long time of majority rule by the minority of the country, it’s gotta be tough to have the shoe on the other foot.
But as politicians are so fond of pointing out, elections have consequences. And boy are y’all proving that those consequences are deserved.
