Another Shutdown?
Y’all, this is my favorite story in a while.
Okay, it starts with congressional Republicans. That right there ought to clue you that something crazy is fixing to happen.
There is a must-pass omnibus appropriations bill if congress expects to keep their August recess.
Here’s the crazy: The bill for funding the Interior Department adds a little ditty about displaying Confederate flags on graves in federal cemeteries and the sale of Confederate flags in national park gift stores.
Oh hell, no.
So Democrats have hunkered down and said, “Okay, Boys, let’s play this game.”
Democrats have offered a deal.
House Democrats are floating a legislative deal linking the thorny Confederate flag debate with expanded voting rights. […]
Rep. James Clyburn (S.C.), the third-ranking House Democrat, said Thursday that Democratic leaders will drop their push to attach flag-related amendments to appropriations bills, freeing Republicans to pursue their spending agenda, if GOP leaders will agree to consider an update to the 1965 Voting Rights Act, a central part of which was gutted by the Supreme Court in 2013.
That kinda says, “Oh hell yeah you can fly your crazybutt flags as long everybody knows what you stand for and what we Democrats won’t stand for.”
It’s not that big a stretch. Let me remind Republicans that President Bush and 98 members of the United States Senate – Republicans included – voted to extend the Voting Rights Act in 2006. That’s like 7 years ago which might be a tad more contemporary than some damn flag created in 1861.
“[T]he members of the Congressional Black Caucus and the full Democratic Caucus are willing to sit down with the Speaker and work out a way for us to allow the proper display and utilization of … the flag in certain instances if he would only sit down with us and work out an appropriate addressing of the amendments to the Voting Rights Act,” Clyburn said during a press briefing.
Sounds like a fair deal to me.
Thanks to Kyle for the heads up.
I do think any agreement should put the VRA vote ahead of the rag of rebellion vote because no one shouldever trust those GO_Pi dogs
1Whoever designed this legislative swap deserves a medal. If the rednecks want to keep their dirty little flags in exchange for shoring up the Voting Rights Act, let’s make a deal.
2Bets the GOP would rather shut down the government than agree. Any takers?
“If voting didn’t change anything, Republicans wouldn’t care about black people doing it.”
3The republicans don’t make any deals. In fact, they’re completely useless. I agree with SteveTheReturned, but I’m pretty sure they’d rather have another government shutdown. Besides, they no longer care what George W did and would just as soon forget that entire presidency.
4Reads like a good enough deal to me.
5I’m with montag. The VRA vote comes first on the docket. Otherwise, no deal – no vote on either one.
PS – – and it has to pass.
6Montag and two crows have the right of it–FIRST the VRA update passes, then comes the stink in’ flag vote.
7The rwnj’s will go down in flames (along with their stars n bars)
8rather than restore fairness to the American voters. They’re counting on the gerrymandering, voter ID laws and other restrictions to give them the 2016 election.
I like this deal. Good on ya, Democrats.
9Now thats what I call playing poker!
10I used to live in SC. James Clyburn was a bright light in that state. The state guv’mnt…. not so much.
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