{"id":1212883,"date":"2022-01-13T00:19:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T05:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1212883"},"modified":"2022-01-13T00:19:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T05:19:12","slug":"profoundly-unpresidential-mcconnell-rips-bidens-voting-rights-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/profoundly-unpresidential-mcconnell-rips-bidens-voting-rights-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Profoundly Unpresidential\u2019: McConnell Rips Biden\u2019s Voting Rights Speech\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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%2Fprofoundly-unpresidential-mcconnell-rips-bidens-voting-rights-speech%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=1212883&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Joe-Biden-Rants-in-Georgia-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) ripped into President Joe Biden\u2019s Tuesday speech in Georgia, calling it \u201cprofoundly unpresidential.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McConnell&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BCev5FCCY8U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">characterized<\/a>&nbsp;Biden\u2019s speech as a \u201crant\u201d that was \u201cincoherent, incorrect, and beneath his office.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Biden advocated for voting rights legislation and called for an end to the Senate\u2019s filibuster procedure in front of a crowd in Atlanta, Georgia. Biden&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/01\/12\/mcconnell-rips-bidens-speech-as-profoundly-unpresidential\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>&nbsp;in his address:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The threat to our democracy is so grave that we must find a way to pass these voting rights bills, debate them, vote, let the majority prevail. And if that bare minimum is blocked, we have no option but to change the Senate rules, including getting rid of the filibuster for this.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Senate<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY)&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/schumer-eyes-final-reckoning-over-voting-rights-filibuster-rule-n1287398\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a>&nbsp;earlier in the week that the Senate would vote on a pair of voting rights bills by Monday. A majority of the Senate supports both bills, but Democrats do not have the 60 votes necessary to defeat a filibuster.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s public attack on the filibuster is a change from his position last summer, when he cautioned Senate Democrats against pushing an anti-filibuster narrative.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhat I don\u2019t want to do is get wrapped up around whether this is all about the filibuster,\u201d Biden&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/07\/22\/biden-nixing-filibuster-would-throw-congress-into-chaos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>&nbsp;at a town hall in July. \u201cYou will throw the entire Congress into chaos and nothing will get done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McConnell attacked Biden for not living up to his calls for unity, calling his speech \u201cdeliberately divisive\u201d and saying it was \u201cdesigned to pull our country further apart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He went on to call out Biden for calling millions of Americans \u201cdomestic enemies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you don\u2019t pass the laws he wants, you\u2019re Bull Connor, and if you oppose giving Democrats untrammeled, one-party control of the country, well you\u2019re Jefferson Davis,\u201d McConnell&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BCev5FCCY8U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">added<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow profoundly, profoundly unpresidential,\u201d he said. \u201cLook, I\u2019ve known, liked, and personally respected Joe Biden for many years. I did not recognize the man at the podium yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McConnell also called out Biden for pushing his trillion-dollar Build Back Better agenda before drawing attention to voting rights legislation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe story is that democracy is on death\u2019s door. But he spent nine months chasing a reckless taxing and spending spree before addressing it. It must not be that much of an emergency,\u201d said McConnell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) ripped into President Joe Biden\u2019s Tuesday speech in Georgia, calling it \u201cprofoundly unpresidential.\u201d McConnell\u00a0characterized\u00a0Biden\u2019s speech as a \u201crant\u201d that was \u201cincoherent, incorrect, and beneath &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"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-1212883","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\/1212883","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212883\/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=1212883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}