What the Georgia voting speech lacked in facts, he tried to make up in hysteria.
It looks like we’re headed for autocracy, then.
In his wisdom, Joe Biden decided to declare in his Georgia voting speech that there’s a crisis in our democracy that can be fixed only if the Senate filibuster is eliminated to rapidly pass two sweeping Democratic voting bills on narrow partisan votes, an unlikely prospect that already looks completely dead.
Kyrsten Sinema, in keeping with her consistent commitment, one that Biden was fully aware of before he headed to the podium in Georgia, said once again in the immediate wake of the president’s speech that she opposes ending the filibuster.
If Biden’s rhetoric in his speech is to be taken seriously — and it shouldn’t be — this makes Sinema the moral equivalent of Jefferson Davis or Bull Connor.
Even Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, a reliably left-wing member of the Senate, allowed that these comparisons might have been a bit much.
Biden tried to make Georgia the poster child for the advent of a new American autocracy based on last year’s election reform. Biden’s case was, predictably, incredibly weak.
If Georgia has been determined to suppress the vote, it’s done a very poor job of it.
Turnout in the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election — the one that Stacey Abrams says was stolen from her — was almost as high as turnout in the presidential election of 2016.
Last January’s Senate runoffs smashed the record for turnout in a runoff.
If there was any doubt, his Georgia speech removed it — he’s the same hack he’s always been.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/01/biden-disgraces-himself/
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