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Turning the screws
If you want to see one of the biggest shams in American history, just look at Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi trying to get the filibuster undone so that they can pass any law that they want with a 51 count. That would be 50 Democrats in the Senate and Kamala Harris casting the deciding vote, when there are also 50 Republicans on the other side. So, you have Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin who are siding with the Republicans and saying that it should not be done. That’s exactly what the Democrats want. The Democrats want 51 and that’s good enough to pass the filibuster, but 52 which is a majority is not enough to stop the filibuster, according to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, who keep turning the screws on the two Democrats who have already said no 5,000 times.
Waiting and waiting
Democrat Manchin of West Virginia wants President Biden to put back the pipeline. It’s pretty bad when your own party disagrees with your decision. I’m a Republican, and an American. We all hope President Biden does good. The problem is that we have been waiting and waiting for something good to happen.
Fuzzy picture
Inflation rose 7.1% in December, the highest rise in inflation in 40 years, yet President Biden focused on voting rights. What’s wrong with this picture?
Get serious
Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris is supposed to fix the southern border crisis. How about getting serious and fix the problem?
Don’t call Americans racist
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President Biden, please don’t call Americans racist. Your approval rating at 33% shows you are dividing Americans instead of uniting Americans.
Misplaced priorities
Just as the politicized and weaponized U.S. Supreme Court strikes down President Biden’s vaccine mandate, the state of Indiana vaults to the top spot in COVID per capita deaths. Ironically, the Indiana attorney general applauds this decision. Talk about misplaced priorities.
Require IDs to vote
If you go to the ACLU webpage on voting, its amazing what they claim. They claim 21 million Americans don’t have ID. They also support no ID. They claim it is because of cost. Really? Why would any American not have an ID? When was the last time you paid $75 to $125 for an ID? The ACLU says that’s the cost. Voter ID serves a purpose. We use ID for everything. If you don’t have ID, we get Illegals voting, and criminals, and the list goes on.
We should get a tax refund
Is it just me, or are teachers the biggest whiners in the world? So policemen, firefighters, public health workers, nurses, doctors and all the way to the greeters at Walmart all wake up and go to work every day. But for some reason, teachers are God’s gift and cannot perform their jobs during COVID? What a joke. Well, if teachers are not going to teach, then we should all get a refund on our property tax bills.