Johnson can say that, but I wouldn't hold my breath. In addition to women and anyone else who can't put their hands on a passport or birth certificate in time for the election, that act is going to hit rural areas hard. Simple farmers. People of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know, Republicans.
gop knows that passport services are very limited in rural or even red areas. even in a blue area passports are quite limited to a few areas: only the passport agency and a smattering of USPS office, which are often booked months in advance. if its a first time passport, they have to go extra steps.
birth certificate might easier or harder depending on your path, you can get it online, but it cost more than in person.
Though many GOP senators warn against blowing up the filibuster and empowering a potential future Democratic-led Senate from more easily pushing through their priorities, others, like Trump ally Sen. Ron Johnson, argue that Democrats would nuke the filibuster on their own.
Oh to live in a world where the Dems have even half the guts that Republicans think they do.
They don't think the Democrats have any guts, they're just making the most convenient argument to do the thing they want in the moment. It's not good faith.
“America is back, and we want to keep America great, and we will do so by approving the SAVE America Act,” he said to a crowd gathered on the National Mall, which included several Republican lawmakers.
Ridiculous. We're all paying lots of money for gasoline, in my town $5+ per gallon, food costs are up, and the GOP congress has failed to hold the Trump admin responsible for starting a war without congressional approval.
where are you cause in Florida it's 3.60
they won't nuke the filibuster. that's a dangerous move that many even on that side won't make.
i suspect that they will instead do what trent lott did in 2001 to push some bush bullshit through... fire the senate parliamentarian. that has been elizabeth macdonough's job since 2012. and she's already gotten "in the way" of dipshit's agenda before.
part of the parliamentarian's duties is to make sure bullshit doesn't sneak into filibuster-proof 'reconciliation' bills.
they are already planning to rig midterms anyways.
I don’t care if the nuke the filibuster, whether or not they do that the next times dems are in power they need to use the immune executive to burn all these traitors to the ground.
Will they? I don’t have a lot of hope there, but any candidate that runs on that will get my vote.
Wait, if that could work, what stops them from just turning Senate procedures into a game of fizzbin? Only the threat of Democrats retaliating in kind when they get power again?
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