This should send shivers down everyone’s spine.
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki went on Joy Reid’s MSNBC show this week to say that President Joe Biden would prefer not to make changes to the filibuster, but “he’s happy to hear ideas, and he is certainly not going to allow for obstruction of important things like making it easier to vote.”
Of course Biden wants to make it “easy” for everyone to vote – a chaotic, messy free-for-all voting system is the only way his party can win.
And more is coming, folks. It’ll get even “easier.” This will be the Biden admin’s main focus, and it will be relentless and crafty, just like the last election.
This line of thinking and determination should scare the heck out of every American, especially after the 2020 fiasco.
“There’s a lot of interesting ideas out there,” Psaki said. “I’m sure that he’s happy to listen to people and talk to them about their ideas to make changes. He talked just earlier this week about whether it should be harder and not easier to block legislation, return to the talking filibuster, which is an idea that has been put out there. It shouldn’t be so easy to do it.”
“His preference is not to make changes because he wants Democrats and Republicans to work together,” she added. “He wants to find a way forward. He thinks that voting rights is something that there should be support for, and he’s going to keep working at that. But he’s happy to hear ideas, and he is certainly not going to allow for obstruction of important things like making it easier to vote.”
Not stopping there, Psaki went on to say that the White House doesn’t see it as a choice between bipartisanship and getting important things done, and Biden’s “not going to allow political games in Washington to hold his agenda hostage, or prevent work being done on behalf of the American people.
Reconciliation was of course used, as you know, for the American Rescue Plan, which delivers aid and assistance to people across the country, but he also believes that there should be an opportunity and the door should be open to bipartisanship, and we’ve got to keep working at that, even if we haven’t reached that at this point in time.”