{"id":7177,"date":"2022-02-06T15:26:22","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T15:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7177"},"modified":"2022-02-06T15:26:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T15:26:22","slug":"democrats-voting-rights-debacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7177","title":{"rendered":"Democrats\u2019 voting rights debacle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Another question is whether, in going for broke trying to pass their dream bill, Democrats will have missed an opportunity to get less sweeping but still significant reforms enacted. Washington is abuzz with news that some Republican senators want to engage in talks<\/a> about reforming the Electoral Count Act \u2014 the law Trump tried to use to get Congress and Vice President Pence to throw out Biden\u2019s wins in key states. Yet leading Democrats like Schumer have so far voiced skepticism <\/a>of those efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether any GOP reform offer is worthwhile depends on the details<\/a>, and it\u2019s possible no deal will come together. But right now, the alternative appears to be getting no reforms at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The unpleasant reality for Democrats is that they\u2019ll only be in a position to pass the agenda they say is necessary if they manage to win more elections. Yet their prospects for doing that in 2022 look bleak, considering Biden\u2019s grim approval numbers<\/a>. There\u2019s still a chance to make the bipartisan deals they can now, and try to win more elections later. But the time for tilting at windmills is drawing to a close.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22876643\/democrats-voting-rights-senate-filibuster-manchin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Another question is whether, in going for broke trying to pass their dream bill, Democrats will have missed an opportunity to get less sweeping but still significant reforms enacted. Washington is abuzz with news that some Republican senators want to engage in talks about reforming the Electoral Count Act \u2014 the law Trump tried to use to get Congress and Vice President Pence to throw out Biden\u2019s wins in key states. Yet leading Democrats like Schumer have so far voiced skepticism of those efforts.<\/p>\n

Whether any GOP reform offer is worthwhile depends on the details, and it\u2019s possible no deal will come together. But right now, the alternative appears to be getting no reforms at all.<\/p>\n

The unpleasant reality for Democrats is that they\u2019ll only be in a position to pass the agenda they say is necessary if they manage to win more elections. Yet their prospects for doing that in 2022 look bleak, considering Biden\u2019s grim approval numbers. There\u2019s still a chance to make the bipartisan deals they can now, and try to win more elections later. But the time for tilting at windmills is drawing to a close.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[542,1262,198,906,479],"class_list":["post-7177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-congress","tag-democrats","tag-elections","tag-legislation","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7178,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7177\/revisions\/7178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}