It’s not a day without a Y if some Democratic Party elite isn’t fearmongering about Democracy In Peril, eh?
Harris: US won’t be ‘role model’ of democracy if voting rights legislation isn’t passed
Vice President Kamala Harris said the United States may lose its standing as a role model for the world – and democracy itself would be put at risk – if voting rights legislation is not passed.
Harris, who has taken the lead on voting rights, said during a wide-ranging interview broadcast Sunday on CBS News’ “Face the Nation” that people around the world are watching the United States “because we have held ourselves out to be a model of … the ability of a democracy to coexist with an economic strength and power.”
But Harris warned that if lawmakers don’t pass legislation to preserve voting rights, the United States’ standing could be in jeopardy.
“We have been a role model saying, ‘You can see this and aspire to this and reject autocracies and autocratic leadership,’” Harris said. “Right now, we’re about to take ourselves off the map as a role model if we let people destroy one of the most important pillars of a democracy, which is free and fair elections.”
These are the same people who are 100% against voter ID and any measures to restrict voting to one person one vote. These are the same people who want to allow non-citizens, including illegal aliens, to vote. The Freedom To Vote act is essentially a federal takeover of all voting, and would certainly be challenged at the Supreme Court as an overreach of Legislative authority and the Constitution. It would register all felons to vote immediately. It would federalize all elections, it would limit free speech and association, and weaken protections.
But, if Kamala is so worried about Democracy (which we do not have, of course, but, a federal republic), what her hyper-leftist folks?
U.S. Rep Jayapal asks Biden to continue focus on ‘Build Back Better’, urges executive action
U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal, a leading liberal House Democrat, has asked President Joe Biden to continue focusing on his social spending legislation and urged him to use executive action despite Senator Joe Manchin’s public rejection of the plan.
In an opinion piece in the Washington Post on Sunday, Jayapal, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), wrote that the CPC will soon release a plan for some actions like lowering costs, protecting the health of families, and tackling climate action.
“The Progressive Caucus will continue to work toward legislation for Build Back Better, focused on keeping it as close to the agreed-upon framework as possible”, she wrote in the newspaper https://wapo.st/32jgLRb. (lots of whining about Joe Manchin, who’s putting his constituents and what they want over Party)
“Taking executive action will also make clear to those who hinder Build Back Better that the White House and Democrats will deliver for Americans”, Jayapal wrote.
Wouldn’t the Executive Office doing things not authorized by Congressional legislation, except by finding tiny little phrases, be Bad For Democracy? That’s why we have a separation of powers.
Here’s an idea: break up the Build Back Better (yeah, right) bill up into all the different sections and have votes on each one. Let’s see where that goes.
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