The Congress of 2009-10 was a gift the people of the USA needed to address healthcare. Those majorities rarely happen. It is frightening to think this USA Senate will sacrifice the one opportunity we have been given by the grace of the people of this country too secure our democracy for today and the future.
The Democrats will not have a clear majority this upcoming session of Congress. There are at least 44 secure Republican seats. That is four short of a two-thirds majority. The filibuster has to end.
The new rules for this Congress, both House and Senate, are clear. The new rules for this Congress have to reflect the processes going forward to end the corruption of the Executive Branch. There is no alternative. If Republicans pledge to vote to allow the 60 needed votes to go through, do not believe them.
Donald John Trump and his administration are the grime reapers of the modern era. There is no turning away from the responsibilities assigned the Democrats elected to office.
Citizens of this country have died for the next Congress to correct the course of the country. There are people deported from this country before their pleadings could be heard. They are in prisons and some may have died. The detention facilities in the USA have become death traps. There are families separated. There are children adopted from those separated families into the Adoption Industry in the USA. There are human rights abuses all over the world. People have died from the new Trump Virus, defunding of life giving programs.
There are war fronts everywhere begun by the Trump administration. He has furthered the war in the Middle East, both through aggression toward Iran and a well supplied Israeli military. Israel has turned from those wars as well. The Israeli people have a different Prime Minister and there is every indication he will not be the blood thirsty man that Netanyahu became. There are no real venues of peace form the Trump administration. There are still missiles being launched at Kharg Island.
The attacks on speed boats in the Caribbean Sea is are war crimes.
Trump has been promising all sorts of strong man initiatives, including those of the Iranian people and with the death of their Ayatollah and the slaughter of the girls. The Iranian people have turned against the USA and Trump is now reviled.
Every diplomatic effort by the Trump administration ends with graft of one kind or another for him and his family. He not only took graft from others, he exploited his power as president to take millions if not billions from USA companies. These weren't fines to pay grievances the people had with Wall Street, this was blatant graft. The Trump family has not only profited from the president's power, they are openly befriending our enemies in hopes of more exploitation.
Then there is Ukraine.
Then there is NATO.
The national security of the United States of America has been on the auction block with this president and it continues.
These actions by Trump and his administration for two very long years warrants the Rule of Law to ensure this never happens again. Trump was a criminal when he was elected and there is every indication he is going to continue on that path with only raw power between him and his fate. His minions are just as invested.
The assault on Civil Rights across the entire spectrum of our people, the attack on voting rights no matter how unconstitutional it was, gerrymandering (the manipulation of an electoral constituency's boundaries so as to favor one party or class) that Trump bragged about as a reason no citizen would ever have to vote again, and the election money paid by a billionaire that takes enormous amounts of our tax dollars to serve an isolated space station. The USA has allowed NASA to become dependent upon the very man that seeks to destroy it's constitution. The Supreme Court has become the Supremist Court. It has made decisions willingly to destroy stare decisis (Stare decisis is the doctrine that courts will adhere to precedent in making their decisions. Stare decisis means “to stand by things decided” in Latin) and advance religious purity standards.
The interest of the people of the USA are in the hands of this incoming Congress. They have been given a clear simple majority with enormous responsibility. It is time to get the work of the people done. The filibuster has been nothing but abused by the Republicans repeatedly, even for highly qualified judicial nominees. The lethargy that is created by the filibuster has to stop.
The Congress is being measured for it's effectiveness in protecting the USA Constitution and there is no room for error or politics.