Flipping on the Filibuster: Dems’ Cynical ‘Crow’ Ploy
President Biden’s party is poised to push through “reforms” designed to turn a democracy into a permanent one-party state, while using inflammatory words at a time when we are already severely divided (“The scare-Crow tactics of Dems,” Michael Goodwin, March 28).
We’re facing crippling lockdowns, open borders, loose voting laws, and now the Democrats want to end the filibuster.
They’re willing to shatter one democratic norm after another to serve themselves. They don’t care about the taxpayers they’re sworn to serve. All they care about is power. Gary Mottola
Brooklyn
Regarding Goodwin’s column: I find it laughable that Democrats are calling Georgia’s new voting laws “restrictive” and “racist.”
I am a minority voter, my mother being African/Puerto Rican. How is it racist to have me show ID proving who I am and that I am a resident of a particular state?
I find it racist that Stacy Abrams and President Biden are inferring that I’m too stupid to obtain proper state identification to vote legally and fairly. Aren’t these laws already the norm in many states?
Bryan Francisco Carty
Nesconset
It is especially ironic that Biden used the phrase “Jim Crow” to describe the filibuster when in the past the Democrats praised it as necessary for the minority to have a voice in the passing of laws.
Even in the past year, when the Republicans controlled the Senate, it was used by the opposition Democrats many times to stop the passing of legislation.
Goodwin pointed out
that Republican state legislators were asleep while Democrat governors and their cohorts changed election laws to benefit their candidate. I believe they slept on purpose in order to defeat former President Donald Trump.
Now they have awoken and are passing legislation to make the elections more transparent. Richard Ketay
Newark, NJ
The Democrats and the press praised House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in 2018 when she delivered an eight-hour filibusterstyle speech.
In fact, they loved that she did it in high heels. Why wasn’t the filibuster racist then? D. M. Diana
Greeley, Pa.
Biden and the Democrats are arguing that the congressional filibuster is a vestige of the Jim Crow era.
Well, if so, then why did they use it more than 300 times in 2020 when they were the minority party in the Senate? Chris Tripoulas
Manhattan