"This is it!", "They've gone too far this time!", "This is a bridge too far!", "The Republicans

[Atticus]

won't let this slide!" "The reasonable Republicans will support nation over party!"

How many times have we heard these impassioned bleats? How many times have some of us thought or said equivalent things?

Today, EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN SENATOR voted against even DISCUSSING the voting rights bill upon which the survival of our democracy depends.

There IS no "bridge too far"for them. There is no obscenity they will not "let slide". There are no "reasonable Republicans" in the Senate---possibly none anywhere.

Whither goest thou now, contrarians? Is "preserved the filibuster but destroyed democracy" what you want in the first paragraph of your obituaries?

[msongs]

1. well not to worry since manchin supports their filibuster 100%...so far nt

[Bev54]

2. I truly believe McConnell wants the Dems to get rid of the filbuster

Everything he has done since January has been to show that is the only thing they can do

[Kaleva]

3. He can blame the Dems for doing what he actually wants to be done.

[dflprincess]

18. We don't have to get rid of it

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Just go back to the rules that they have to stay in the Chamber listening to whoever is speaking until that person falls over.

This deal where only 1 senator has to object and then they all go home & needing 60 votes to override that one objection have got to end.

[uponit7771]

20. +1,

[czarjak]

4. First paragraph of obit should read Locksteppers lockstepped.

[SergeStorms]

5. Any republican with an ounce of integrity...

has left the Party of Trump already. Those who remain loyal to the GQP are Trump loyalists to the bone.

After TFG has abandoned politics, for any of 1000 reasons, they'll all say, "what could I do? I'd never get re-elected if I took a stand against him".

That's the point, you fucking cowards. If you didn't have the courage to choose your country over the fascist tendencies of one demented egomaniac, how could anyone ever trust you again for any reason!

You made your stinking bed, now die in it.

[joetheman]

17. There are none. Liz blew hers today. nt

[monkeyman1]

6. time to dissolve the republican taliban ! TFG has turned into a cancer of the U.S. !

no need to say more !

[BoomaofBandM]

7. Republicans use their voting rights to take away voting rights of others.

[ancianita]

8. Mother Jones and Ari Berman's being right + a bus token will get us across town.

Give Michael Steele a shot.

After watching Democrats work with Republicans for years, Michael Steele weighs in on his fellow analysts' frustrations.

Start at the 5:58 mark

"...The question becomes, all right, Dems, what do you want to do? This is raw power. That's what this is...
so the reality for Democrats is how do want to play the power. What are you waiting for? ... But when it comes down to power and getting your agenda through ... Mitch McConnell wouldn't take a second breath to think about jettisoning the filibuster if it meant the GOP agenda wouldn't get through otherwise ... I don't get it.

70% of Americans support the Freedom To Vote Act.
41 Senators representing just 21% of the nation can block it.

25:15 mark: Michael Steele: We know the Democrats won't act... Democrats won't call their bluff.

Are we gonna hand wring over this? Or do a Mitch McConnell?

[bucolic_frolic]

9. I think we'll know more about voting after the Virginia election

Maybe Democrats just need to get Democrats in the HABIT of voting. Off year elections have been a big bugaboo

[JHB]

10. How Politburo of them.

Just part of the ongoing Sovietization of the Republican Party.

[Baked Potato]

11. Their violent constituents have turned them into quivering rubber-stampers.

And, I don’t think they GAF. Check still rolls in and they don’t have to run from car to house in fear of their own crazies.

[rpannier]

12. The reasonable ones have all quit the party, or are about to

They have no real power, so their quitting gets overlooked.
See the two former state officials in Oklahoma who left that party.
Is it getting national news at all?

[Joinfortmill]

13. Anti democracy

[budkin]

14. They know without their voter suppression they would hardly win another election ever again

It's just the way it is. They have refused to evolve and are just trying to hang on.

[Patton French]

15. Do you really think they're thinking that far ahead?

I’m not sure they know whither they goest beyond tomorrow.

[Sherman A1]

16. Aaaaah,

just catching on to that?

[hadEnuf]

19. The Republicans hate our guts

Absolutely, completely, hate our guts. They will do absolutely anything to screw Democrat's over.

Destroy democracy? Piece of cake.

Install a madman as dictator? Done.

Talk their own into getting a killer virus? No problem.

We've been having the conversation of why the Dems don't give it back to the GOP in spades for 20 fucking years.

What will it take and will we be able to give it back to them when we finally figure it out?