{"id":393931,"date":"2022-01-14T07:37:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T04:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/hopeless-chuck-schumers-left-hook-fails-him-again\/"},"modified":"2022-01-14T07:37:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T04:37:06","slug":"hopeless-chuck-schumers-left-hook-fails-him-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hopeless-chuck-schumers-left-hook-fails-him-again\/","title":{"rendered":"#Hopeless Chuck Schumer\u2019s left hook fails him again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2f00eb545dc\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2f00eb545dc\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hopeless-chuck-schumers-left-hook-fails-him-again\/#Radical_step\" >Radical step\u00a0<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hopeless-chuck-schumers-left-hook-fails-him-again\/#None_the_wiser\" >None the wiser\u00a0<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hopeless-chuck-schumers-left-hook-fails-him-again\/#Spinning_the_oldies\" >Spinning the oldies\u00a0<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Hopeless Chuck Schumer\u2019s left hook fails him again<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Chuck Schumer has a losing hand, and he knows it. Nancy Pelosi\u2019s House Democrats passed two voting and elections bills, the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/senate-bill\/2747\">Freedom to Vote Act <\/a>and the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/house-bill\/4\">John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act<\/a>. Neither has any chance to pass the Senate under its existing rules. Schumer needs the support of 10 Republican senators to break a filibuster, and he has zero, because the bills are left-wing wish lists full of dramatic expansions of federal power, handouts to incumbents, and crackdowns on free speech.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Radical_step\"><\/span>Radical step\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Schumer is instead taking a radical step favored by the left wing of his party: permanently change the rules of the Senate to abolish the filibuster just to pass these two bills. Even Joe Biden has endorsed this. Never mind that Schumer and Biden between them have participated in hundreds of filibusters (in Schumer\u2019s case, hundreds just during Donald Trump\u2019s presidency) and that both men have given multiple impassioned speeches in the past on the democratic virtues of the filibuster.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/schumers-losing-hand-727.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Joe Biden\" class=\"wp-image-20831507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/schumers-losing-hand-727.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/schumers-losing-hand-727.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/schumers-losing-hand-727.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>President Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roval rating is down to 42% in the poll averages.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But Schumer doesn\u2019t have the votes for that, either. At least two of the 50 Democratic senators, Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, are publicly opposed to abolishing the filibuster. It is likely that other Democratic senators don\u2019t want to do it, either, but are letting Manchin and Sinema take the heat from their base.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"None_the_wiser\"><\/span>None the wiser\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>A wiser man would accept reality and look for a different fight to pick. Continuing to push these bills is one failure after another. It illustrates that the president can\u2019t get his agenda passed through Congress. It shines a spotlight on the fact that it\u2019s yet again his own party\u2019s disunity that has thwarted him. It vents the anger of activists against two elected Democrats (Manchin and Sinema) who could easily be replaced by Republicans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For good measure, the apocalyptic rhetoric from Biden and other Democrats about these bills being necessary to save democracy runs the risk that some of their own voters will believe it and stay home in November, convinced that their votes don\u2019t count. That\u2019s what happened to Republicans in last January\u2019s Georgia Senate runoff elections after two months of Donald Trump saying that Georgia elections were rigged and stolen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/schumers-losing-hand-726.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Joe Manchin\" class=\"wp-image-20831506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/schumers-losing-hand-726.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/schumers-losing-hand-726.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/schumers-losing-hand-726.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Sen. Joe Manchin is publicly opposed to abolishing the filibuster. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/schumers-losing-hand-728.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz.,\" class=\"wp-image-20831508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/schumers-losing-hand-728.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/schumers-losing-hand-728.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/schumers-losing-hand-728.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is also against eliminating the filibuster. Some people believe Sinema and Manchin are the few Democrats willing to speak up against it.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Schumer is not that wiser man. To work around the filibuster rule and force a debate on the Senate floor, he is playing a shell <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>. How this works: Pelosi brings up an amendment to a bill on a completely unrelated topic, replaces all of the words in the amendment with the voting and elections bills, and sends them back to Schumer. The amendment is, literally, a shell in which the voting bills are hidden, like when unscrupulous stock fraudsters take over some defunct corporation in order to have a company already listed on a stock exchange without having to obey the rules for newly listed businesses.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But here\u2019s the thing: the shell game only gets the bill past the first hurdle to the Senate floor for debate; there then has to be a second vote to end debate on the bill. That still takes 60 votes, unless the rules change. And no matter how often the national political press has begged them to reconsider \u2014 they are asked this every day by desperate reporters \u2014 Manchin and Sinema have stood firm. So, Schumer loses.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/schumers-losing-hand-732.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi\" class=\"wp-image-20831512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/schumers-losing-hand-732.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/schumers-losing-hand-732.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/schumers-losing-hand-732.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>House Democrats passed two voting and elections bills, the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Imag<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Why go to the trouble of all this flimflammery just to hold a show debate and lose? Partly because Democrats are in such deep political trouble that they need to lash out to fire up their remaining supporters and vent their own frustrations. Biden\u2019s approval rating is down to 42% in the poll averages, with the last poll showing just 33% of adults in his corner, and worse among onetime Democratic groups: 28% with Hispanics, 24% with 18-to-34-year-olds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Spinning_the_oldies\"><\/span>Spinning the oldies\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Black voters are the only ones left still supporting Biden \u2014 albeit at levels much lower than usual for a Democrat \u2014 so Democrats are spinning the oldies, calling Republicans racists and invoking memories of the real voting-rights battles of the 1960s. Biden\u2019s speech in Georgia on Tuesday compared anyone in his way (implicitly including Manchin and Sinema) to Jefferson Davis, Bull Connor and George Wallace. Ironically, all three of those were Democrats, and two of them still in office when Biden first ran for the Senate as a Democrat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Even Schumer\u2019s deputy, Dick Durbin, had to concede on CNN the next day that \u201cperhaps the president went a little too far in his rhetoric.\u201d But Biden, who once told a black crowd that Mitt Romney was \u201cgoing to put y\u2019all back in chains,\u201d is undeterred. Shameful rhetoric of this sort is the order of the day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/schumers-losing-hand-731.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\" class=\"wp-image-20831511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/schumers-losing-hand-731.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/schumers-losing-hand-731.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/schumers-losing-hand-731.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is known to call out Schumer. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As for Schumer, he seems less worried about looking like a fool than about being called a sellout by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. There is still time for AOC to file a primary challenge to Schumer this spring. You\u2019d think Schumer, who won 70% of the vote in his last election, wouldn\u2019t be worried. But his shell game suggests otherwise.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Nancy Pelosi\u2019s House Democrats passed two voting and elections bills, the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. Neither has any chance to pass the Senate under its existing rules. 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