New words come into our lexicon constantly, but one of my favs coined by ‘President Dubya Bush’, was “strategery”. One current talking point is, “President Biden waited too long to begin pushing for voting-protection legislation”, which is nonsense. Do you feel you have good critical-thinking skills and are a strategic-thinker? So, with this all-out brawl going on in Congress, do you really think Biden should have led with the legislation that will undoubtedly require a filibuster carve-out to pass, especially since Manchin & Sinema have declared they will NOT support a rules-change? In Biden’s first year, his administration distributed billions of vaccines, which by summer of 2021 were free & widely available to all. At this point around 75 percent of adults, 64 percent of ages 12 – 17, and 26 percent of kids aged 5 to 11 have at least been partially vaccinated. In 2021, two big bills passed, helping many Americans: $1.9 T Covid-19 Economic Relief Plan & the $1 T Infrastructure, Investment & Jobs Act. The unemployment rate & inflation were both decreasing until the Omicron variant hit & surged. With continued high demand for goods and supply lines still slowed, we see ‘pandemic-inflation’.
Biden wanted to bring cooperation & bipartisanship back to Congress. Dems have tried to build consensus for voter-protections for months. Nineteen GOP-controlled states passed laws in 2021, fueled by The Big Lie, to repress voters & enable election-subversion. Senate Majority Leader Schumer is calling for a voting rights debate on 1/19, then will call for a rules-change for that bill, then will call for each senator to cast a Yay or Nay vote. Each must go public with their stand! Under President George W. Bush, in 2006, by a vote of 98 – 0, the Senate approved (and President Bush signed) another 25-year extension of the Voting Rights Act, which President LBJ signed in 1965. The John Lewis bill would restore the VRA after it was gutted by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2013, in Shelby County vs Holder. Senate Republicans have blocked 3 different voting rights bills, Dems introduced in 2021, from reaching the Senate floor. The 16 GOP senators still present, who voted for the VRA in 2006, must now vote their conscience or stand in lock-step with ‘Trumpists’. Senator Lindsay Graham announced last week that anyone not solidly behind former-president Trump, cannot go forward in their party! Many won’t run again; the path forward will be strewn with deserters. The debased RNC announced that it will no longer support presidential debates, and will require candidates to sign a contract agreeing they’ll NOT debate!
Trish Forsyth Voss
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Jan 19 2022
Voting Rights or Bust!
New words come into our lexicon constantly, but one of my favs coined by ‘President Dubya Bush’, was “strategery”. One current talking point is, “President Biden waited too long to begin pushing for voting-protection legislation”, which is nonsense. Do you feel you have good critical-thinking skills and are a strategic-thinker? So, with this all-out brawl going on in Congress, do you really think Biden should have led with the legislation that will undoubtedly require a filibuster carve-out to pass, especially since Manchin & Sinema have declared they will NOT support a rules-change? In Biden’s first year, his administration distributed billions of vaccines, which by summer of 2021 were free & widely available to all. At this point around 75 percent of adults, 64 percent of ages 12 – 17, and 26 percent of kids aged 5 to 11 have at least been partially vaccinated. In 2021, two big bills passed, helping many Americans: $1.9 T Covid-19 Economic Relief Plan & the $1 T Infrastructure, Investment & Jobs Act. The unemployment rate & inflation were both decreasing until the Omicron variant hit & surged. With continued high demand for goods and supply lines still slowed, we see ‘pandemic-inflation’.
Biden wanted to bring cooperation & bipartisanship back to Congress. Dems have tried to build consensus for voter-protections for months. Nineteen GOP-controlled states passed laws in 2021, fueled by The Big Lie, to repress voters & enable election-subversion. Senate Majority Leader Schumer is calling for a voting rights debate on 1/19, then will call for a rules-change for that bill, then will call for each senator to cast a Yay or Nay vote. Each must go public with their stand! Under President George W. Bush, in 2006, by a vote of 98 – 0, the Senate approved (and President Bush signed) another 25-year extension of the Voting Rights Act, which President LBJ signed in 1965. The John Lewis bill would restore the VRA after it was gutted by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2013, in Shelby County vs Holder. Senate Republicans have blocked 3 different voting rights bills, Dems introduced in 2021, from reaching the Senate floor. The 16 GOP senators still present, who voted for the VRA in 2006, must now vote their conscience or stand in lock-step with ‘Trumpists’. Senator Lindsay Graham announced last week that anyone not solidly behind former-president Trump, cannot go forward in their party! Many won’t run again; the path forward will be strewn with deserters. The debased RNC announced that it will no longer support presidential debates, and will require candidates to sign a contract agreeing they’ll NOT debate!
Trish Forsyth Voss
j
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