Manchin vs. Schumer

West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin took on his party during a press conference with reporters yesterday.  Asked why he was making it harder for people vote in the next election, Manchin flatly rejected the idea that voting rights are in any danger.  He said:

"The law is there. The rules are there. . . The government will stand behind [voters] and make sure they have the right to vote. We have that. . . Things are happening, okay.  We act like we're going to obstruct people from voting.  That's not going to happen."

Of course, Joe Manchin is right.  The larger point is that the left's legislation has nothing to do with voting rights.  I've made the point before, but it must be repeated.  The legislation Chuck Schumer is pushing is not a "voting rights bill."  It is a "voting cheating" bill. 

The purpose of the legislation is to make it harder to stop people who are not supposed to be voting in our elections.  There is no legitimate reason to oppose voter ID laws unless you intend to allow illegal votes to be cast. 

There is no reason to require states to mail out absentee ballots to voters who don't request them and don't want them.  There's no reason to require states to have drop boxes, where random ballots can be dropped off at all hours of the night.  There's no reason to force states to accept ballots days past Election Day without postmarks. 

All that does is guarantee more cheating and guarantee the left's lock on power.  And that's precisely the point.

Chuck Schumer and 48 Senate liberals are intentionally pushing extreme legislation, and threatening to blow up the Senate in the process, because they know it will guarantee the left's power. 

Progressives are claiming that the demonstrators who entered the Capitol Building on January 6th were engaged in an attempt to overthrow our government.  But the real threat to our constitutional Republic is the fringe left trying to nationalize our elections.