<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) went off on the GOP and moderate Democrat senators who are standing in the way of the Democrats&#8217; radical voting agenda, claiming opponents of the legislation and a change to filibuster rules are &#8220;dishonoring&#8221; the legacy of <span class="rollover-people" data-behavior="rolloverpeople">Martin Luther King Jr. and making our deceased forefathers and leaders like MLK and President Abraham Lincoln have &#8220;tears in their eyes,&#8221; unless the bills are passed. </span></p>
<p class="p1">&#8220;Nothing less is at stake than our Democracy. This is about suppressing the vote, it&#8217;s about nullifying the election,&#8221; Pelosi said Monday at an event at Washington&#8217;s Union Station. &#8220;It&#8217;s about just doing so many things that are obstacles to participation. That&#8217;s wrong. The truth is, that&#8217;s wrong.&#8221;</p>
<p class="p1">&#8220;If you really, truly want to honor Dr. King, don&#8217;t dishonor him by using a congressional custom as an excuse for protecting our democracy,&#8221; the House Speaker <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/590068-pelosi-suggests-filibuster-supporters-dishonor-mlks-legacy-on-voting-rights">continued</a>, seemingly referring to Senate Democrats Joe Manchin (WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (AZ), who both oppose eliminating the legislative filibuster rules.</p>
<p class="p1">&#8220;We all want bipartisanship,&#8221; Pelosi said. &#8220;We all strive for it [and] we have a responsibility to do so. But when we cannot have it, we cannot confine our democracy to what might be bipartisanly possible.&#8221;</p>
<p class="p1">&#8220;So I ask our colleagues in the Senate respectfully for what they think the filibuster means &#8230; to weigh the equities against our democracy,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;Because nothing less is at stake than our democracy.&#8221;</p>
<p>Pelosi&#8217;s speech went on to suggest anyone who is somehow standing in the way of the radical voting legislation is making MLK, <span class="rollover-people" data-behavior="rolloverpeople">Abraham Lincoln</span>, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson cry.</p>
<p>&#8220;[<span class="rollover-people" data-behavior="rolloverpeople">Martin Luther King Jr.,</span>]&#8230;<span class="rollover-people" data-behavior="rolloverpeople">Abraham Lincoln</span>, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson  &#8212; all of them with tears in their eyes for the departure from our democracy that is happening right now, unless the truth is acknowledged and this legislation is passed,&#8221; she <a href="https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/11722-0">said</a>.</p>
<p>On Thursday, Sen. Sinema announced she would not support making any changes to the filibuster, all but sinking radical voting bills like &#8220;The John Lewis Voting Rights Act&#8221; and the &#8220;Freedom to Vote Act.&#8221; The Daily Wire&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kyrsten-sinema-will-not-support-changing-the-filibuster-much-to-democrats-dismay">Tim Meads</a> explained:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Under Senate rules, legislation can only pass by a simple majority after debate has ended on a specific bill. However, in order for a certain bill to be presented for a vote, at least 60 senators need to vote in favor of ending the debate. This means that in order for the majority party to pass legislation with as much ease as possible, that party must have a “super majority” in the Senate of at least 60 senators.</em></p>
<p><em>Under the current makeup of 50-50 Congress, most Democratic proposals require the support of at least 10 GOP senators for any chance of passing. In effect, eliminating the legislative filibuster rules would enable the Democrats to pass legislation — such as The John Lewis Voting Rights Act and the Freedom to Vote Act — with a simple majority vote which the party has.</em></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SpeakerPelosi</a> at an MLK Day event: George Washington &amp; Thomas Jefferson have &quot;tears in his eyes” that the filibuster is being used to stop us from nationalizing elections <a href="https://t.co/SOWNNfk6aG">pic.twitter.com/SOWNNfk6aG</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1483135718834724865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 17, 2022</a></p></blockquote>

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