{"id":218623,"date":"2021-04-03T00:31:25","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T21:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-media-wont-be-happy-until-moderate-dems-ok-the-filibuster\/"},"modified":"2021-04-03T00:31:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T21:31:25","slug":"the-media-wont-be-happy-until-moderate-dems-ok-the-filibuster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-media-wont-be-happy-until-moderate-dems-ok-the-filibuster\/","title":{"rendered":"#The media won’t be happy until moderate Dems OK the filibuster"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#The media<\/a> won’t be happ<\/a>y until moderate Dems OK the filibuster<\/strong>”
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As we speak, there is no bill on the congressional docket that would provide Democrats an excuse to blow up the filibuster \u2014 or, as the media might euphemistically refer to it, \u201creform\u201d or \u201coverhaul\u201d it.<\/p>\n

Yet, a casual follower of politics would surely be under the impression that there is a pressing battle unfolding, because the media are incessantly covering the filibuster issue as a way to pressure holdout moderate Democrats to join the left in the efforts to destroy the Senate.<\/p>\n

Take Manu Raju at CNN, whose main job it seems is to badger Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema with hypothetical questions about strip<\/a>ping Senate guardrails to allow Democrats to jam through their agenda with a narrow majority. Would you blow them up for a gun bill? Would you blow them up for a voting bill? Would you like it in a house? Would you like it with a mouse? Would you? Could you?<\/p>\n

In July 2020, before Democrats had even won their slim Senate majority, Raju was already haranguing Manchin and framing the filibuster \u2014 a \u201cstall tactic\u201d \u2014 in left-wing terms. To which Manchin emphatically responded, \u201cThat\u2019s bulls\u2013t.\u201d And then noted he had opposed a Democratic Party effort to kill the filibuster in 2013 and would do it again. Boy, that seems pretty clear to me.<\/p>\n

Not to The New York Times, though, which asked Manchin in January of this year about the filibuster, to which he answered, \u201cI can assure you I will not vote to end the filibuster, because that would break the Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n

On March 1, after months of being asked the same question in nearly every interview, Manchin lashed out at reporters: \u201cJesus Christ, what don\u2019t you understand about \u2018never\u2019?\u201d Apparently, that wasn\u2019t clear enough, either.<\/p>\n

A few days later, Chuck Todd asked him again. To which Manchin said: \u201cI\u2019m not going to change my mind on the filibuster.\u201d And a few days after that, when he was asked by Politico: \u201cI want to make it very clear to everybody: There\u2019s no way that I would vote to prevent the minority from having input into the process in the Senate. That means protecting the filibuster. It must be a process to get to that 60-vote threshold.\u201d<\/p>\n

This week, Raju tweeted: \u201cJust asked Kyrsten Sinema \u2014 who refuses to answer questions \u2014 whether she\u2019d be open at all to reducing the 60-vote threshold on the filibuster. \u2018I love your enthusiasm,\u2019 she said as the elevator doors closed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sinema hasn\u2019t refused to answer questions. Her office stated that she is \u201cagainst eliminating the filibuster, and she is not open to changing her mind.\u201d What Raju means is that Sinema refuses to answer the way he wants her to. <\/p>\n

The media could be asking more meaningful questions, instead of raw advocacy for the progressive wing. Why isn\u2019t Raju demanding Brian Schatz, Tim Kaine, Ed Markey, Michael Bennet, Amy Klobuchar \u2014 or any of the numerous other Democrats who signed Susan Collins\u2019 2018 letter promising to preserve the 60-vote threshold for legislation \u2014 explain why they were fine using this supposedly racist relic of Jim Crow hundreds of times in the past few years? Why? Why? Why?<\/p>\n

Why, senators, are you pretending that you are facing unprecedented gridlock only two weeks after passing one of the largest pieces of legislation in history? Why? Why? Why?<\/p>\n

Hey, Markey, you say that the \u201cfilibuster was created so that slave owners could hold power over our government.\u201d Yet, in 2018, you said it was a tool that \u201crecognizes the rights of the minority and makes bipartisan legislation.\u201d Why do you now want to eliminate the minority\u2019s voice? Will you change your mind? Will you? Will you? Will you?<\/p>\n

Why doesn\u2019t Raju, Todd or any other high-profile political reporter badger Manchin or Sinema about turning on the Hyde Amendment \u2014 which has suddenly been abandoned after 50 years? Manchin, why, after decades, do you believe taxpayers should be forced to fund late-term abortions? Will you change your mind? Huh? Huh? Huh?<\/p>\n

Why? Because the entire focus of political media coverage is dictated, framed and articulated in whatever way Democrats deem important right now for partisan gain. At this point it is beyond bias. It\u2019s corrupt.<\/p>\n

Of the 10 reporters that Joe Biden called on during his first press conference, three asked about the filibuster \u2014 though not a single one had any time for a question about COVID-19 or other pressing issues. After four self-aggrandizing years of pretending to hold the powerful accountable, we are once again reminded that the political press largely exists to obsess over the Democrats\u2019 agenda items.<\/p>\n

Twitter: @DavidHarsanyi<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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