{"id":594634,"date":"2021-07-17T05:06:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T09:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=594634"},"modified":"2021-07-17T05:06:13","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T09:06:13","slug":"democrats-find-a-filibuster-they-can-get-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-find-a-filibuster-they-can-get-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Find a Filibuster They Can Get Behind"},"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%2Fdemocrats-find-a-filibuster-they-can-get-behind%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=594634&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\/2021\/07\/texas-losers-on-plane.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Democrats, who have been toying all year with the idea of nuking the legislative filibuster in order to jam through a left-wing wishlist on party lines, have finally found a form of obstruction they support.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Texas Democrats who fled the state for D.C. in order to derail their own legislative session received a hero\u2019s welcome from President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, who praised their courage and compared them to the abolitionist hero Frederick Douglass. &#8220;As American as apple pie,&#8221; the vice president declared.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Texans may have failed in their mission\u2014more on that later\u2014but they succeeded spectacularly in exposing the hypocrisy of their party on minority power.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The group was looking to stop the Republican majority in the Texas legislature from passing a package of voting reforms by taking the extreme step as a minority party of leaving the state altogether. Without enough present members, the Texas House of Representatives shuts down. <\/span>Their departure temporarily robbed Republicans of the ability to move legislation.<\/p>\n<p><span>But <\/span><span>their only hope for a permanent solution was to press party leaders in Washington to abolish the filibuster, clearing the way for a piece of federal legislation\u2014the For the People Act\u2014that would supersede the Texas bill. And in a <\/span><span>shameless political about-face, <\/span><span>the group immediately began lobbying Democrats to eliminate the minority\u2019s power in Congress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Things haven\u2019t gone the way they had hoped. Determined to give Harris a run for her money in the realm of absurd historical comparisons, President Joe Biden said Tuesday that Republican attempts to change election laws represent &#8220;<\/span><span>the most serious test of our democracy since the Civil War.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But the party he feebly controls has moved on. The <i>Washington Post <\/i>reported on Friday that while congressional Democrats offered fulsome praise for the Texas legislators, they have <a href=\"https:\/\/mailtrack.io\/trace\/link\/32dd96134a2a0f397dfad939b004386f0621e2fc?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fpolitics%2Ftexas-democrats-find-voting-rights-are-a-tough-sell-as-capitol-hill-turns-its-focus-to-bidens-economic-agenda%2F2021%2F07%2F15%2Ff881e386-e570-11eb-8aa5-5662858b696e_story.html&amp;userId=6348687&amp;signature=b1756c6682770bc0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">turned their full attention<\/a> to passing a $3.5 trillion spending bill.<\/p>\n<p><span>Convincing centrist Democrats to abandon the filibuster was always a fool\u2019s errand\u2014Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (D., Ariz.) and Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) have been made it abundantly clear they\u2019re not willing to pay the political price back home for joining a Democratic power-play.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Texans will have to stay out of the state until August 6 to wait out the entire session. Republican leaders have vowed to arrest them and bring them to the statehouse for a vote when they return.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>At least they got a free vacation out of it. The rest of us got a searing demonstration of the Democratic Party\u2019s lack of seriousness and principle when its members carp about Republican obstruction.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>We couldn\u2019t have scripted it better ourselves.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats, who have been toying all year with the idea of nuking the legislative filibuster in order to jam through a left-wing wishlist on party lines, have finally found a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594634","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\/594634","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594634\/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=594634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}