Biden pleads for passage of voting rights bills in speech on MLK Day: 'The attack on our democracy i

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Business Insider

is real'

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday made a renewed plea for the passage of voting rights legislation as the country celebrated the memory of civil righs leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Two voting rights bills at the heart of the Democratic agenda, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and the Freedom to Vote Act, are up for debate in the Senate on Tuesday with a possible vote later this week. But with the legislative filibuster still intact, their passage is unlikely in the face of Republican opposition.

"The attack on our democracy is real," Biden said, citing the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 and Republican efforts to pass new voting rules in several states after former President Donald Trump's loss in the 2020 election. "It's no longer just about who gets to vote, it's about who gets to count the vote, and whether your vote counts at all."

"In his time, through his courage, his conviction, and his committement, Dr. King held a mirror up to America nad forced us to answer the question, where do we stand? Whose side are we on?" Biden continued. "We're in another moment right now where the mirror is being held up to America."

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[Miguelito Loveless]

1. If we are reduced to begging

we are finished. Our enemies have no mercy (this includes two of our ostensible allies).

[Alexander Of Assyria]

8. Headline may be interpreted as...reduced to begging...but the truth is different.

Rising to the occasion of saving democracy is closer to the truth.

[TimeToGo]

10. Yea . . pleads?

[myohmy2]

14. "The attack on our democracy is real..."

...why do we have to beg?

...what kind of an American would not support a voting rights bill?

...if you can't support, protect, defend and strengthen our democracy in it's hour of need while it's under attacked from within then get the hell out of here and out of the way...

...you've forfeited your right to be called an American...

...you're pond scum...

[turbinetree]

2. Not according to two historians from WV and AZ gaslighting as historians...really

[Evolve Dammit]

3. History will remember the two that burned America at a crucial time.

[ananda]

4. I don't think there'll be a history for much longer.

...

[Evolve Dammit]

11. I've had the same thoughts and revulsions. The fascist right wing is trying to re-write "history".

[mbusby]

5. It will be another ...

... "1984"

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

12. Manchin and Sinema are smug hypocrits.

They are so self-righteous about how important the right to vote is and how much they support it, then they do everything they can to sabotage it.

Sinema even tweets a photo of her standing near John Lewis, as if to show he supports her efforts to sabotage the right to vote.

Together they are doing more damage to our democracy than the Confederacy, Hitler, Putin, T****, and every member of the GQP who refuses to support voting rights legislation.

If the Repugs win the Senate the first thing they'll do is get rid of the filibuster, or at least modify it so it can't be used by the Democrats.

I hope there's a special place in hell for these two.

[Evolve Dammit]

13. Could not agree more. They are not Dems, either of them.

[AZLD4Candidate]

6. Very slanted headline. Expect nothing less from Busness Insider

[George II]

7. Not your headline, but another hit job on Biden, "pleads"?? MSN has a habit of doing that, sadly.

[lagomorph777]

9. SineManchin will go down in history as heroes of the counter-revolution.

They are helping to end the American experiment in democracy. The permanent despotic regime they are helping to usher in will erect statues to them and name airports after them.