BREAKING: Biden supports changing filibuster rule

[brooklynite]

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[In It to Win It]

1. SENATORS! Do your duty! Take the lead on this question. Don't leave Joe Biden hanging!

He's putting his neck out there! Don't let it be for nothing!

[Trailrider1951]

2. Great! Now let's do voting rights, too!

Let's not let a good codify go to waste.

[OrlandoDem2]

3. Have a carve out for human rights and do both abortion and voting rights.

It’s not a lot to ask.

[Trailrider1951]

5. I like the way you think!

I wish more Americans thought that way.

[uponit7771]

6. +1,

[SergeStorms]

7. I don't see any downside to it.

If you're carving out a spot for privacy laws there's no harm in bringing voting rights along for the ride.

It would be an overdue "fuck you" to McConnell.

[Srkdqltr]

4. Of course he does.

[brooklynite]

8. Why "of course"?

Up until now he didn't.

[Srkdqltr]

9. Well ... I don't know him personally, but my thought is

He was waiting for the best issue to change his mind. Also. He will be putting the Supreme court on the defensive.

[Polybius]

16. Are you sure?

I could have sworn that he supported it for voting rights too.

[BComplex]

10. Never happen: You need Manchin and Sinema to vote for it. They. Will. Not.

Manchin is totally against both abortion AND stopping anything having to do with the filibuster. Biden knows that.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

11. Be careful what you wish for.

Having a Senate that could end up in GOP hands w/o a filibuster to check their extremism is a scary prospect.

The GOP could use the same tool to make abortion illegal nationwide. And that would hardly be the end of the destruction they could unleash.

[Buckeyeblue]

12. It should be a major civil rights act

That not only extends to privacy and equality issues but also voting rights. It should be very specific.

This is something all Democratic candidates for the house and senate can get behind.

[mitch96]

13. I like going back to the standing Filibuster. What we have now is just

a strong flip the switch easy peasy minority veto.. Make they work for that veto if they believe it so much..
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[Novara]

14. It doesn't matter

Sinema is on the record as refusing to change it for anything. Manchin too.

We're fucked.

[bottomofthehill]

15. That and $5.50 will get you a cup of coffee at Starbucks

What the President thinks about the filibuster matters none. He no longer has a vote in the Senate. When he was in the Senate he had a 1 100th of a say, now none. He can say he would like to see it but past that…….

[Celerity]

17. Joe's got this!

Joe Manchin that is.