{"id":1194856,"date":"2022-01-06T17:06:58","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T22:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1194856"},"modified":"2022-01-06T17:07:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T22:07:10","slug":"mcconnell-democrats-are-trying-to-exploit-january-6-to-advance-partisan-policy-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcconnell-democrats-are-trying-to-exploit-january-6-to-advance-partisan-policy-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"McConnell: Democrats Are Trying \u2018To Exploit\u2019 January 6 \u2018To Advance Partisan Policy Goals\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmcconnell-democrats-are-trying-to-exploit-january-6-to-advance-partisan-policy-goals%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1194856&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) released a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.republicanleader.senate.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/mcconnell-statement-on-january-6th-anniversary\">statement<\/a> on Thursday morning that both reflected on the \u201cdark day\u201d of the Capitol riot a year ago and criticized Democrats for politicizing the January 6 anniversary.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJanuary 6th, 2021 was a dark day for Congress and our country,\u201d McConnell said. \u201cThe United States Capitol, the seat of the first branch of our federal government, was stormed by criminals who brutalized police officers and used force to try to stop Congress from doing its job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After reflecting on the seriousness of the criminal behavior of that day, McConnell focused his attention on the Democrats\u2019 treatment of the January 6 anniversary. \u201c[It] has been stunning to see some Washington Democrats try to exploit this anniversary to advance partisan policy goals that long predated this event,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is especially jaw-dropping to hear some Senate Democrats invoke the mob\u2019s attempt to disrupt our country\u2019s norms, rules, and institutions as a justification to discard our norms, rules, and institutions themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While McConnell doesn\u2019t specify exactly what \u201cnorms, rules, and institutions\u201d the Democrats are trying to discard, it\u2019s likely that he is referring to recent Democrat attempts to change Senate rules to pass voting rights legislation. On Monday, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said he would move to change Senate rules by January 17 unless Republicans stop blocking Democratic efforts to pass their voting rights bill.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If Republicans continue to block our efforts,<\/p>\n<p>The Senate will debate and consider changes to Senate rules on or before January 17, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, to protect the foundation of our democracy:<\/p>\n<p>Free and fair elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenSchumer\/status\/1478046352852627461?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fight for the ballot is as old as the Republic. Over the coming weeks, the Senate will once again consider how to perfect this union and confront the historic challenges facing our democracy,\u201d Schumer wrote in a dear colleague letter on Monday. \u201cWe hope our Republican colleagues change course and work with us. But if they do not, the Senate will debate and consider changes to Senate rules on or before January 17, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, to protect the foundation of our democracy: free and fair elections,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday in a speech at the Capitol, after Vice President Kamala Harris made the morally bankrupt comparison of January 6 to Pearl Harbor and 9\/11, she stated, \u201cWe must pass voting rights bills that are now before the Senate.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kamala Harris in Jan. 6 speech: &#8220;We must pass voting rights bills that are now before the Senate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/charliespiering\/status\/1479094368069996545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A portion of Harris\u2019 speech can be viewed here:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Vice President Kamala Harris begins her remarks on Jan. 6, remembering dates when &#8220;our democracy came under assault.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nwVb1gx4dT\">pic.twitter.com\/nwVb1gx4dT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 USA TODAY (@USATODAY) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USATODAY\/status\/1479093789197324292?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, McConnell is having none of the Democrats\u2019 attempts to use January 6 as a political game to pass their voting legislation. \u201cA year ago today, the Senate did not bend or break,\u201d he commented. \u201cWe stuck together, stood strong, gaveled back in, and did our job. Senators should not be trying to exploit this anniversary to damage the Senate in a different way from within.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) released a statement on Thursday morning that both reflected on the \u201cdark day\u201d of the Capitol riot a year ago and criticized Democrats for politicizing the January 6 anniversary.\u00a0 \u201cJanuary 6th, 2021 was a dark day for Congress and our country,\u201d McConnell said. \u201cThe United States Capitol, the seat &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1194856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1194856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}