So Sorry!

While I cannot claim to speak for the Democratic Party, as a Democrat I feel compelled to apologize to the American people. I am sorry as all hell that we Democrats are unable to find a Marvel superhero to insert the stick of dynamite needed to blow Kyrsten Sinema's head out of her special interest owned ass, and/or to insert the stick of dynamite needed to blow Joe Manchin's head out of his Koch bros owned ass. News flash for voters: it is not Joe Biden or the Democratic Party that is failing to protect voting rights from the attacks of the American Fascist Party (AKA the Republican Party). There are two Senators registered as Democrats (Sinema and Manchin) who have joined Republican senators in refusing to protect voter rights. All of the senators refusing to pass the voter rights acts are indicative of a systemic problem, i.e. the influence money and special interests have on politicians of both parties.

Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema are either lying when they say they support the voter rights bills or they are both idiots! If you believe in the right to vote (the most fundamental right in any democracy) you will do what is necessary to protect that right; it is that simple! But both Manchin and Synema say that traditional senate rules, in this case the filibuster, are more important than protecting the right to vote. I think the absurdity of saying that the filibuster is more important than the right to vote is self evident. Without the right to vote we no longer have a democracy! Furthermore, the filibuster rule in its present form has only been around since 1975. So the rule was changed fairly recently, and not for the better. One only has to look at how Moscow Mitch used to filibuster to clog up the system like a malignant bowel obstruction during the Obama administration to realize how destructive the filibuster is in its present form!

Wake up America! Big pharma wants the filibuster to prevent the passage of any act that would allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices, and other special interests want to keep the filibuster in order to thwart laws and acts designed to protect consumers and/or make big companies pay their fair share of taxes. Manchin, Synema and the Republicans are choosing the rule of money over democracy and the rule of the people. The only way you are going to protect the right to vote and take back your country is to work like hell to defeat the Republicans and the few Democrats who choose money over country! Needless to say I do not feel sorry for the voters punishing Blanch Lincoln because of her opposition to public option, and what she did was not nearly as bad as what Manchin and Synema are doing. The big tent is a fine thing. We should tolerate differences when it comes to policies and legislation, but there can be no compromise or tolerance for any undermining our democracy! Anyone who will not protect the right to vote has no business being in our government.