How Democrats Fumbled the Voting Rights Debate

[DonViejo]

Instead of highlighting GOP obstruction, the vote on S.1 devolved into a discussion of Democratic dissension

Dan Pfeiffer
3 hr ago

The Republicans waged war on democracy. Democrats responded with a whimper.

I hate being a Monday morning quarterback who hollers from the peanut gallery about the failures of those in the arena. I have been on the inside, and it’s always more complicated than cocksure Twitter strategists and professional pundits on the outside assume. I have a visceral reaction to the folks who seek out RTs by yelling about how Democrats need to “do better” and “fight harder.”

But still, it’s difficult to look at the run-up to yesterday’s vote on the most critical piece of legislation in a decade and not think that Democrats need to “do better” and “fight harder” — or at least “fight smarter.”

Every Democrat from the Senate to the White House touted the For the People Act as an absolutely essential response to Republican attempts to rig our elections, circumscribe democracy, and institute “Jim Crow in the 21st Century.” Yet all the Party could muster was a poorly planned, unchoreographed, failure of a procedural vote on Tuesday.

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[quaint]

1. "Victory could still escape the jaws of defeat. "

In hindsight, it seems Senate Democratic leaders were just trying to survive the next interview or meeting without inspiring the wrath of the base.

[PortTack]

2. I am SO sick of arm chair politicians weighing in as if they were there!

We have a 50-50 split with a tie breaker

These pundits can go f..k the right off!

Support for our dem leaders is vital.

[betsuni]

3. Thank you.

So sick of this.

[NYC Liberal]

4. Just say the magic words, and Manchin and Sinema will support abolishing the filibuster.

Apparently that's all it takes.

Pundits are a joke.

[PortTack]

7. Welcome!

[BlueIdaho]

6. X 1000

The numbers are what the numbers are. The M$M shapes news stories to drive their “circulation.” They are not our friends. Want more progressive legislation passed? Elect more progressive Democrats.

[PortTack]

8. ☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️

[StarfishSaver]

14. Exactly

Dan Pfeiffer should know better.

[moose65]

5. Jesus Effin Christ

This kind of horse shit makes my blood boil. WHAT did they expect the Dems to do? We have the thinnest of majorities, and here we are. What else could have been done?

[WHITT]

9. Who Is This Clown: Pfeiffer?

Schumer and the Dems knew full well it would be filibustered, the POINT was to illustrate to Manchin & Sinema that there are NO ten Repub votes in play. They are all doing the fascist twostep goosestep. Time to wakeup and smell the bullshit.

[DonViejo]

10. here you go...

Howard Daniel Pfeiffer[1] (born December 24, 1975) is an American podcaster and Obama White House staffer. He was the Senior Advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama for Strategy and Communications from 2013 to 2015.[2]

Pfeiffer was a long-time aide to Obama, serving in various press and communications roles throughout his 2008 campaign for the Presidency, on his presidential transition team, and in the Obama White House.[3] He co-hosts Pod Save America, a political podcast, with Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, and Tommy Vietor.[4][5] In 2015, Pfeiffer joined CNN as a political contributor.[6]

Pfeiffer has written two books: Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump (2018), and Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again (2020).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Pfeiffer

[WHITT]

12. And

he actually thought that the Senate Dems thought this could pass? Where the hell has he been?

[Autumn]

11. So it will be brought up again and the scales will fall off Manchins & Sinema's eyes

and they will vote for it? That's the point?

I eagerly await the show.

[StarfishSaver]

13. "I hate being a Monday morning quarterback who hollers from the peanut gallery about the failures of

those in the arena."

Then don't be.

[chowder66]

16. Exactly. nt

[WarGamer]

15. thumbs down.

DEMS didn't fumble shit.

The numbers weren't there, period.

Valiant effort, A+

[uponit7771]

17. So the debate is over ?!?!! No?!!? Shit kicker article noted

[Wounded Bear]

18. McConnell and the repubs had nothing to do with it, I suppose...

[moondust]

19. Ridiculous.

Whatever you do...DO NOT BLAME THE LOCKSTEP OBSTRUCTIONISTS!