Biden’s Big Election Lie… 20 February 2022

    I found this nailed the problem with a politician being our
President.
David Harsanyi / @davidharsanyi / January 14, 2022

President Joe Biden finally delivered his “voting rights” speech
in Atlanta, telling a crowd:
    “The next few days, when these bills come to a vote, will mark a
turning point in this nation’s history. Will we choose democracy over
autocracy, light over shadows, justice over injustice? I know where
I stand. I will not yield. I will not flinch. I will defend your
right to vote, and our democracy against all enemies foreign and dom-
estic. And the question is: Where will the institution of the United
States Senate stand?”
    These were little more than the mendacious ravings of a demagogue.

    Biden’s argument is predicated on the idea that anyone who con-
tinues to support the legislative filibuster—a Senate rule the pres-
ident defended for nearly 50 years—or voter ID laws, or time restric-
tions on mail-in ballots, or consistent hours for early voting, or
bans on ballot harvesting, is no better than Bull Connor. “Do you
want to be on the side of Dr. King or George Wallace?” was the false
choice offered by a man who repeatedly praised Wallace, and other
segregationists, early in his career.
    The president suggested that anyone opposing the Democrats’
voting rights bill was not only a bigot but a seditious “domestic”
enemy of the United States—a designation that now probably includes
six Democratic senators, if not more. The president pronounced the
Senate a “shell of its former self,” lamenting that the GOP had used
the filibuster over 100 times in the past year, skipping the incon-
venient fact that Democrats had done so over 300 times the preceding
four years. Biden, “the institutionalist,” then unloaded a litany of
completely misleading contentions about voting laws to justify his
abandonment of principle.
    And the reason Biden is compelled to lie about virtually every
aspect of the Georgia voting law is that the specifics are actually
quite popular and do not inhibit a citizen from casting a ballot.
Most of the requirements Biden contends are now compulsory for demo-
cracy to properly function had only been instituted in the past few
years — many of them only during the last election. Biden’s comparing
Jim Crow to contemporary voter integrity laws is detestable. One was
a violent suppression of the minority vote; the other was giving vo-
ters only 11 weeks before an election to request a ballot and declin-
ing to keep expanding voting into the weekend.
    At this pace, Democrats will be arguing that disenfranchisement
of illegal immigrants is the manifestation of the Dixiecrat agenda
by 2024.
    ID requirements are what the left detests most, yet this is the
provision they talk about least. Why? Most polls find overwhelming
majority support for limiting early voting hours and requiring photo
IDs to vote. Fascists in Colorado and Connecticut and most other
states, not only Georgia, still demand a person provide government
issued ID to vote. They, just like Georgia, allow voters without ID
to provide the last four digits of their Social Security number, a
bank statement or utility bill, a paycheck or any other government
document with their name and address. (Maybe if states allowed vac-
cine passports to suffice, Democrats would be up for it.)
    But most Americans—most people in the free world—have believed
it eminently reasonable to expect voters to identify themselves
before participating in democracy. If Democrats believed the vote
was sacred, so would they. It’s the Democrats who are advocating
overturning the will of voters in Georgia and elsewhere. Let’s re-
member that H.R. 1 “voting rights” bill would have compelled states
to allow ballot harvesting, to ban voter ID laws, to allow felons to
vote and to count mail-in votes that arrive up to 10 days after
Election Day.
    The president sprinkled his speech with feigned indignation and
lots of podium pounding. Unable to contain his penchant for fabulism,
he seemed to joke about being arrested (“the first time”) during a
civil rights march. Maybe Biden was confusing that incident with the
time he wasn’t arrested in South Africa for trying to see Nelson
Mandela or didn’t defend the Black Panthers in court or never par-
ticipated in a sit-in.
    But one can suspect most Democrats understand well that this is
all a nasty bit of cynical political theater since there is little
chance of nuking the filibuster. Biden’s attempt to launch his entire
agenda in a single reconciliation moonshot stuffed with progressive
extravagances failed to get a simple majority. Stymied, the president
has decided to preemptively undermine confidence in the 2022 and 2024
elections, smearing half the country as racists while cosplaying as a
civil rights hero. “The Big Lie,” indeed. The consequences of this
will be the further deterioration of trust in elections. 
More division. More anger.

David Harsanyi

    *Seems that Joe only knows how to lie every time he walks in
front of ANY group of people. For some reason he thinks everyone
must believe him because he said so. That is the perfect example of
a person who places himself above the law and beyond reproach.
    Sadly, for him, there are too many videos and too much proof that
he is incapable of effectively leading anything besides his pets.
   It is time for America to remove him and Harris and the cabal
that is leading him around from photo-op to photo-op.
    Again, continue to pray for America and ask God to remove all
this evil that has stollen their way into our lives, hopefully before
he destroys what is left of Trump's America.

Conservatively,
John