The filibuster is a real problem. It used to represent the minority's ability to bring attention to a bill that was adverse to the country. It provided some degree of exposure of the minority focus, but, in the year 2021 the filibuster is a racist tool.
March 15, 2021
By Alan Fram
Washington - A leader of Senate Democrats’ (click here) drive to help millions of immigrants become citizens cast severe doubt on its prospects Monday, as one of President Joe Biden’s early priorities seemed in danger of running aground in a Congress his own party controls.
A top Republican senator who’s been pivotal in past efforts to find bipartisan compromise on the issue also expressed pessimism. Together, the comments by Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill. and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., underscored that immigration remains a complex problem for the two parties to tackle successfully, even with Donald Trump no longer in the White House.
Republican demands to address the surge of young children and families at the Mexican border, plus a lack of needed support in both the House and Senate, were making passage of legislation unlikely, Durbin, his chamber’s No. 2 Democratic leader, told reporters.
“I don’t see a means of reaching that,” Durbin, a veteran of past efforts to strike an immigration deal, said of a comprehensive bill in this two-year Congress....The US Senate is exactly where it was with Obama. The Joe Biden presidency is nearly following the same path as the presidency of the Obama White House. First, rescue the country from the "Wrong Way Republicans" and then set a path to pass bills that the country really needs to provide status and rights to those completely ignored by any Republican administration, the minorities, and the immigrants.
It is now that we need to act to provide citizenship to the people who belong here and have spent their entire lives in the USA. I am not worried about the filibuster. It is antiquated and provides power to a minority party that DOES NOT DESERVE POWER after a nightmare of a presidency for four years.
The way to defeat draconian Republican politics is to maintain healthy majorities in the US House and US Senate. That is done by providing rights to the people that are otherwise ignored. Give citizenship to the Dreamers. They have done all the necessary steps under Obama's generous executive orders and they want to be a citizen. It is wrong to simply allow the same wrong-headed thinking of the US Senate to maintain the filibuster. If the immigration laws are passed that President Biden has on his agenda there won't be another Republican president in the White House or a majority in the House and Senate until they change their evil ways.
The filibuster is standing in the way of democracy. The fifty US Senate Republicans have the country by the throat and will not see people of this country as the focus for the laws so much as the people as a problem, especially for their corporate cronies. Enough of this disaster of an opposition party. The people have a right to their country the way they want it and the Republicans are not the way they want it.
Speaker Pelosi has set congressional records in passing legislation to bring justice to the people, while Republican House leadership only passed legislation in the single digits. The Republicans want the status quo. It is where they live and where their wealth lies. The agenda of the Republicans' status quo is corrupt and based in greed even if it includes accepting Russian oligarchs into the USA to provide jobs. Kentucky is a "State of Shame" for the corruption that exists at all levels including with the Senate Minority Leader. McConnell gave legitimacy to "pass-through" Russian money by allowing a business to exist. Just think about that. The Republicans ae so mired in keeping the status quo that McConnell rather sells out to Russia rather than seeking the best way forward for the people of Kentucky. The American people have had enough of the Republican status quo. The country needs this immigration policy and it needs it now.
