{"id":75343,"date":"2021-12-15T23:09:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T05:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=75343"},"modified":"2021-12-15T23:09:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T05:09:32","slug":"75343","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=75343","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/bonchie\/2021\/12\/15\/kyrsten-sinema-comes-flying-in-off-the-top-rope-after-democrats-surrender-on-build-back-better-n491999\">Kyrsten Sinema Comes Flying in off the Top Rope After Democrats Surrender on &#8216;Build Back Better&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It has not been a good couple of days for Democrats. Two days ago, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/bonchie\/2021\/12\/14\/the-5th-circuit-delivers-a-shockingly-ruthless-rebuke-of-joe-bidens-lawlessness-n491136\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">5th Circuit delivered a stunning rebuke<\/a>\u00a0of the Biden administration, denying their appeal of Trump\u2019s \u201cRemain in Mexico\u201d policy. Yesterday,<strong> Adam Schiff\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/bonchie\/2021\/12\/15\/adam-schiff-gets-caught-doctoring-january-6th-text-messages-exposes-his-imbecility-in-the-process-n491684\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">got caught doctoring text messages<\/a>\u00a0during a January 6th committee hearing. Then today, the thermonuclear bomb went off.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"my-4\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-300x250_4\" class=\"gpt-ad ad-250 text-center\" data-google-query-id=\"CNmGkqKP5_QCFc9c1QodMMEDPw\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/6177\/redstate\/articles\/300x250_4_0__container__\">Joe Biden\u2019s \u201cBuild Back Better\u201d agenda was <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/nick-arama\/2021\/12\/15\/bidens-worst-nightmare-comes-true-build-back-better-just-hit-that-iceberg-n491853\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">officially shelved<\/a>\u00a0after an agreement with Joe Manchin couldn\u2019t be reached. On that note, my prediction that Manchin\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/bonchie\/2021\/12\/08\/joe-manchin-throws-more-haymakers-at-his-own-party-and-causes-left-wing-heartburn-n488241\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">would stall things out<\/a>\u00a0into next year proved correct, and I still believe his ultimate goal is to kill it entirely in the softest way possible.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Of course, the Democrats needed an excuse for why they were punting on the president\u2019s chief policy priority, and some overpaid consultants settled on \u201cvoting rights.\u201d Sure, everyone who is legally entitled to voting rights already has them, but when you\u2019ve got nothing else, you\u2019ve got nothing else.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that great hope lasted for all of a few hours. Kyrsten Sinema has now come flying in off the top rope, destroying any hope that Democrats can pass a federal takeover of the country\u2019s elections.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dems shelved the Build Back Better bill &#8211; the cornerstone of the Biden agenda &#8212;  to shift to election reform bills.<\/p>\n<p>And Kyrsten Sinema just stuck a fork in that. <\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden is a lame duck President 11 months in. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZjZMnHUmwV\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZjZMnHUmwV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattdizwhitlock\/status\/1471254969009377290?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 15, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Honestly, none of this made sense in the first place. Why would you move off a signature policy goal in order to focus on another bill that you have nowhere near the votes needed to pass it? At least with the \u201cBuild Back Better\u201d bill you only needed to negotiate with Sinema and Manchin because it can be passed via reconciliation. But on this \u201cvoting rights\u201d farce, you need 60 votes, and there\u2019s no chance Sinema is going to suddenly change her mind on the filibuster. So, what exactly was the strategy here?<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-4\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-300x250_5\" class=\"gpt-ad ad-250 text-center\" data-google-query-id=\"CJ2FpaKP5_QCFQj5wAodwXEEFg\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/6177\/redstate\/articles\/300x250_5_0__container__\">The answer here is that there isn\u2019t one \u2014 except a lame attempt to save face.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"my-4\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-300x250_5\" class=\"gpt-ad ad-250 text-center\" data-google-query-id=\"CJ2FpaKP5_QCFQj5wAodwXEEFg\">\n<div>Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer realized their gooses were cooked on passing another massive spending bill, at least for the time being (and good luck passing it next year with an election approaching). Yet, they needed something to pacify their rabid left-wing base. What better way to do that than to play into the fantasy that Democrats can federalize elections and \u201csave democracy\u201d?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The votes simply aren\u2019t there, though. What you are witnessing is a political party that is content to continue painting itself into a corner. Forget Republican turnout next year and the historical winds battering the Democrat electoral ship. Even just honing in on left-leaning voters, the bill is going to come due for all these empty promises. Once it does, Democrats are going to have a revolt on their hands, and that likely means depressed turnout. This is what happens when you promise the world and can\u2019t deliver, and as I\u2019ve suggested many times, the current Democrat coalition was never sustainable.<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to claims of Biden being a legislative genius, he\u2019s proven once again to be anything but. That goes for Pelosi and Schumer as well, both of whom have badly misplayed their hand here. All they had to do was sit back and be sane for two years. Perhaps then they could have salvaged something in 2022. Now, they\u2019ve written too many checks, and the bank account is empty.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-4\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-300x250_6\" class=\"gpt-ad ad-250 text-center\" data-google-query-id=\"CN_mkqKP5_QCFcxc1QodEE0I3w\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyrsten Sinema Comes Flying in off the Top Rope After Democrats Surrender on &#8216;Build Back Better&#8217; It has not been a good couple of days for Democrats. Two days ago, the\u00a05th Circuit delivered a stunning rebuke\u00a0of the Biden administration, denying their appeal of Trump\u2019s \u201cRemain in Mexico\u201d policy. Yesterday, Adam Schiff\u00a0got caught doctoring text messages\u00a0during &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=75343\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goobermint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75344,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75343\/revisions\/75344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}