Vincent Hervouët
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11:40 am, January 12, 2022
When he was elected, Joe Biden promised consensus with Republicans on major reforms, immigration, jobs, the environment, etc. He, at least, after 40 years screwed to his seat of Senator, knew the mysteries of Congress, not like this Trump from New York who was going, he said, to put an end to the politics of division in Washington.
Biden plays his all-out
Old age is not necessarily a shipwreck, it can be a paddling pool. Joe Biden has been floundering in Congress for the past year. It took a simplified procedure to urgently pass its recovery plan. It has just failed to pass its major infrastructure reform. And he is playing his political game with this electoral reform.
What is it about ? Standardize the voting rules in the fifty states. The White House accuses southern states of plotting to dissuade minorities from voting.
For example, some governors want to ban the distribution of free drinks or meals in the queues of polling stations. Joe Biden is opposed to it. Others would like the voter to present a piece of identification with a photograph. Biden is outraged. There are also those who want to limit postal voting or early voting, on the pretext that after the “zoubia” of the recounts in 2000, then the feverish contestation of the result last year, it is time to secure voting. The president pretends to be scandalized …
He went to say it on Tuesday in Georgia…
Last week he was giving a cannon speech on Capitol Hill and without ever naming Donald Trump, he denounced him as a reincarnation of Nero watching Rome in flames. On Tuesday, he was in Atlanta for another conjuring session. He went to meditate at the tomb of Martin Luther King. Joe Biden is always eloquent when he prays silently in front of a cloud of cameras. He was accompanied by Kamala Harris, the most famous of the extras. They made a pilgrimage together to the Baptist church where the icon of the struggle for civil rights officiated.
Joe Biden wants to try to force his way through the Senate
You know there is perfect equality in the number of seats: 50 Democrats, 50 Republicans. And to decide between them, the voice of Kamala Harris, who is not only the putative widow of Joe Biden, she is also Speaker of the Senate and her voice therefore makes the difference. You might as well take the opportunity before taking a beating in the elections next November.
Except that there is a rule, that of the “filibuster” which makes that in the Senate a law can meet a determined opposition consisting in blocking the vote by interminable speeches until the abandonment of the discussed law or the convocation of ‘a final vote where you need a 3/5 majority, or sixty elected to adopt it. Joe Biden wants to liquidate this cumbersome tradition. He presents it as a relic of the racist era. 51 votes out of 100 is enough when you have a pure heart, and African Americans with you. But even 51 votes, he is not sure to get them.
It is a new crisis in prospect, while the popularity of the president is at its lowest. With Joe Biden, the Americans thought they were embarking on a health walk, they find themselves in a stock car race. One crisis after another. A new crisis to forget the previous one. Inflation, unemployment, crime, migrants at the border, covid: all the lights are red. The President has only symbolic victories and resounding defeats to mobilize his electoral base.