Failed Fool John Thune Just Failed Election Integrity
Sure, the do-nothing Republican Senate leadership just put a bullet in the back of the head of election-integrity reform, but you'll be glad to know they gave it the old college try. They had a "spirited debate."
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader John Thune pulled the curtain down on the failure theater of "marathon debate" on the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act. The extremely popular cornerstones of the package would require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in U.S. elections and photo ID to cast a ballot.
Let's face it, the debate show was the plan all along. And the South Dakota Republican was the star of the "deliberative" farce.
"We called it up on the floor, March, I think, 17th. We were on it for several weeks and, uh, had a very spirited debate," Thune said. "In fact, uh, I actually, I think, with the exception of maybe a couple of Republican senators, I made more speeches on the floor in support of the SAVE Act than almost any other senator."...........................
But Thune and crew want very frustrated voters to know, Hey, we tried. Our hands are tied.........
As The Federalist's Brianna Lyman reported, dropping the bomb on the filibuster isn't the only way to passage. The talking filibuster, forcing Democrats to hold the floor through actual continuous debate until they run out of opportunities to speak, would drop the 60-vote cloture threshold to a 51-vote simple majority. The Senate would just have to do something unheard of in modern American politics: work. .........................
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