Ted Cruz sure is projecting a lot onto the Democrats' voting rights bill
The GOP finds it impossible to imagine that the Democrats are acting in good faith. How telling.
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May 12, 2021, 9:36 AM UTC
The Senate Rules Committee met Tuesday to mark up its version of the For the People Act, the major voting rights and election integrity bill that Democrats have been trying to pass since 2017. The debate went better than I expected, but on the whole, to paraphrase the Bard, the GOP doth protest too much, methinks.
This isn't to say that all of the GOP senators' proposed amendments were bad or that the bill as introduced is perfect. But to hear Republicans tell it, the legislation was designed specifically to prevent the GOP from winning any election ever again. Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., at one point called the bill a "power grab in search of a crisis" and several times warned that the Democrats were trying to turn the country into a one-party state, like Venezuela.