bull conner. don t think this is a freebie. you don t get to vote this way and somehow it goes away. it will stick with you for the rest of your career and long after you are gone. all right, and as expected, senate democrats came up short last night and their bid to overcome a filibuster on voting rights legislation or to enact a filibuster carve out for that legislation. president biden said he s disappointed but not deterred over last night s bill. no matter how hard they make it for minorities to vote, you will see them willing to stand in line and defy the attempt to keep that from being able to vote.
one of the things i had not been able to do so far is get my republican friends to get in the game of making things better in this country. president biden marking one year in office with a marathon, two-hour solo news conference. headlines on several front. he kept ongoing and going and going. he says we are not going back to lockdown and conceded his administration waited too long to ramp up testings. he gave a nod to the feds to higher interest rates saying he respects the central banks independence. the president laid much of the blame on republicans saying they are more obstructionists now than during the obama administration. when asked about voting rights which senate republicans blocked last night, the president said without the election overhaul, the midterms quote, could be
here and again two things true at one time. you always want to talk about the confidence you have in the system. he has to fight like hell for these state legislatures who not only want to make it different difficult for people to vote but more dangerous than that is they want to decide who counts the vote and who does not count the vote. they did not like the fact that republicans counted the vote fairly in arizona. they didn t like the fact republicans counted the vote fairly in georgia. they want to change that a president has the right to say this is deeply concerning to me. also with us adjunct senior, and richard haas and former u.s. ambassador to russia now director of the institute for international study at stanford,
there are things they can do. the biden administration came in with the belief that it could have a mandate to be fdr from the mentally change the nature american society, the country didn t elect him to do that? they elected him to restore normalcy and get us through the pandemic and doing things like reforming. you say that to a progressive, oh no, no, we have to pass 27 things along with the electoral count act when it would taken care of what donald trump wanted mike pence to do on january the 6th. joe biden didn t take the opportunity to say right i am going with the span wing of the democratic party. i am going with the more moderate, smaller approach to government. he didn t take that opportunity. let s see whether he actually does it because the other roots have been shutdown firmly. it is not about voting rights, there were a whole load of other
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