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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here you go, OP. Just what you wanted!
[twitter]https://mobile.twitter.com/RonBrownstein/status/1484025993513693185[/twitter][/quote]

Sorry..... this is hyperbole and crap. 
Historians will note that despite Democrats calling this bill "voting rights" it is not about voting rights at all. 
They will also note that Biden was unable to get two bills that the Democrats consistently referred to as "vitally important" across the line and the country didn't fall apart. 
The tweet is unconvincing.  [/quote]

Yes, and by embracing this breathtakingly stupid strategy Schumer has put 48 Democratic Senators on the record as supporting the removal of the filibuster.

We will very likely have a new president in less than three years, and that new president may be a Republican, and that new Republican president may control the senate by a seat or two.

By forcing this vote Schumer has greatly increased the odds of the filibuster being eliminated... while failing even to capitalize on its elimination.

If you were to go full Machiavelli you might argue that the filibuster will be eliminated at some point and so it might as well be your party that does it and takes advantage of having done so to ram some legislation through, but Schumer hasn't even achieved that.  He has lowered the bar considerably for the Republicans to eliminate the filibuster and didn't even get a win out of it.  All these idiotic tweets about the filibuster existing to support "white supremacy" are going to come back up too btw.

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It wasn't "the removal of the filibuster" - it was a carve out to make it a talking filibuster. Let's please be accurate in what happened so when Mitch actually does eliminate it, we can be accurate about how we got there.[/quote]

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