This one is shocking. I am glad to see that he is finally willing to take the gloves off, and the way he frames it around the midterms is a political thing of beauty.
“America is better positioned to lead the world than we ever have been,” Biden said. “But one thing that has been destabilizing is the outrageous behavior of the Supreme Court of United States in overruling not only Roe v. Wade, but essentially challenging the right to privacy.” He added: “I could understand why the American people are frustrated because of what the Supreme Court did."
Biden said he would support changing the Senate filibuster rules, which require 60 votes to pass most legislation, to allow bringing a bill extending nationwide abortion protections to pass by simple majority, although Democrats don't have sufficient votes in the Senate for that.
He went on to say that in order to take down the filibuster, we would likely need more Democratic Senators, but this opens the door to all kinds of possibilities if we can take our momentum and shock the punditry by winning the midterms.
I love the juxtaposition of the following link.
“If the filibuster gets in the way, it’s like voting rights, it should be we provide an exception for this,” Biden said Thursday at a news conference to conclude a NATO summit in Madrid. “Right to privacy, not just abortion rights, but yes, abortion rights.”
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The pundits always think they know better. Now there is some background here. Even though the President has bottomed out in approval ratings, Democrats have been gaining strength throught the January 6th hearings and now the Dobbs decision. The party is in great shape for a surprise win in November if gas prices and inflation improves even a little bit.
If the President can get to 45 percent approval, not undoable, I think we handily hold both houses.
Some voters might be aggravated with President Biden, but they view the right wing as toxic.
If he is willing to carve out an exception for this he might just get an appetite for the process. There is a lot he can do with an unrestrained Senate that would lead to many positive advancements heading into his re-election campaign.
I am taking him at face value when he says he intends to run again, and I think this speculation running rampart in the press, and supposedly in Democratic circles is counterproductive.
We have just yet begun to fight.
-ROC