http://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/05/11/ap-reports-that-the-democrats-womens-health-protection-act-was-blocked-by-gop-led-filibuster/
As Twitchy reported earlier, all but one Democratic senator — Joe Manchin — voted Wednesday for the Women’s Health Protection Act, which would have allowed abortion without restrictions up until childbirth and also would have rendered null and void states’ abortion laws. As Manchin explained, the act went beyond codifying Roe v. Wade.
The Associated Press, which is having a banner day, reported that the Senate Democrats’ bill to codify Roe v. Wade was blocked by a GOP-led filibuster.
Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) ~ WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats' bill to write Roe v. Wade into law blocked by GOP-led filibuster as Supreme Court weighs abortion case.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren must have read that tweet, because she was up in arms after the vote to nuke the filibuster:
The Hill (@thehill) ~ @SenWarren: "I believe in democracy, and I don't believe the minority should have the ability to block things that the majority wants to do. That's not in the Constitution. [...] It's time to get rid of the filibuster."
http://hill.cm/Q1zVreV
http://twitter.com/i/status/1524512288748756993
Feather-brained squaw is as willfully ignorant and brain-dead as they come.
Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) ~ Is she drunk? The bill failed with 49 votes. She was in the minority.
About that tweet about the GOP filibustering the Democrats’ bill:
Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) ~ This is the president of the White House Correspondent Association. Everything about this is a lie. It wouldn’t have codified Roe and it wasn’t blocked by a filibuster.
Why are you lying?
Cernovich (@Cernovich) ~ It failed via bipartisan vote.
Kevin (@kevinpost) ~ This bill DID NOT try to codify Roe. It expanded it to include no restrictions up to 9 months. Also, it was a bipartisan vote.
100 Proof (@ChampionCapua) ~ It lost the popular vote.
Constitutional Muster (@ChipBorman) ~ The bill didn't codify Roe, it wasn't blocked by a filibuster, it failed to get 50 votes. Other than that, some solid work by the AP.
Tim Hagle (@ProfHagle) ~ Does it count as a filibuster if they don't even get to 50 votes?
Uh ... that would be a big, fat, obvious "NO."
Invisible Constituent (@JustGreggo) ~ This tweet aggressively targeting the low info community.
Low-info community being those who watch CNN & MSNBC, read The New York Times and The Washington Post, listen to NPR, and inhabit the Further Freedom From Thought Board.
Doctor of Coding Thinkology (@bradcundiff) ~ American Pravda with the minimalist headline. It went way beyond Roe. It even put “person” over “women.” Crazy people.
Shane (@shaner5000) ~ How can you be this wrong in one single tweet?
Dan Sommers (@sommerd34) ~ Literally everything in this tweet is wrong.
LPJamison (@LPJamison) ~ You deserve the ratio that is coming.
James Miley (@wellingtonmiley) ~ This wasn't a filibuster. They only got 49 votes. It failed without a filibuster.
Kirk (@Kirk__K) ~ Filibuster? I'm calling the Disinformation Governance Board to report you.
Jim Martin (@The_Jim_Martin) ~ It wouldn't write Roe into law ... it was MASSIVELY more extreme than Roe. And it didn't even get 50 votes ... so it didn't fail because of the filibuster. But other than that, great objective journalisming.
Someone tell Warren that the majority voted against the bill, so it wasn’t “the minority” getting its way. President Joe Biden doesn’t get it either ... we remember him saying that “in America, the majority should rule in the United States Senate” when the attempt to nuke the filibuster failed by a vote of 52-48.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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