Part I: History
The Filibuster requiring a three-fifths (60 votes today) segment of the U. S. Senate to end continual debate as a delaying tactic dates back to as early as a Senate rule change in 1806. (It is not in the U. S. Constitution.) It was first used in 1837 and subsequently very sparingly until much later in the 20th Century. It became famous in American history during the Dixiecrat Ku Klux Klan era to forestall full Civil Rights for Negroes by federal law enforcement. It empowered a minority to frustrate the rights of the majority to legislate.
[During the Eisenhower Administration, the President authorized the J. Edgar Hoover FBI to infiltrate and break up the criminally violent Ku Klux Klan.]
The Eisenhower Administration overcame the Dixiecrat filibuster against Civil Rights legislation with the Voting Rights Acts. By the 1960s, the Democrat (Dixiecrat) Party flip-flopped. Previously, the Democrat Party Presidential nominating convention operated with a two-thirds rule. No Democrat could be nominated for President without a two-third majority. Furthermore, the assigned number of convention voting delegates was significantly skewed to favor states that voted Democrat not Republican. Southern Dixiecrat Jim Crow Law states held a stranglehold on national Democrat Party policies when it came to race. They never teach these facts in American education for over half a century.
Part II: The “Nuclear Option”
During the Great Obama’s second term when the Hard-Left Islamic Alliance-dominated Democrat Party ran into resistance in both appointing Executives to run the Executive Branch Departments and appointing Federal Judges of such an unprecedented extremist Hard-Left Islamic Alliance Faith, the Democrat Party Majority Leader, Harry Reid, terminated the Filibuster with the ‘Nuclear Option.’ (In 2017, Republican Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, extended that ‘Nuclear Option’ to include the SCOTUS nominees.)
Part III: Today
There is no Rational Explanation for NOT using the ‘Nuclear Option’ so that the 80% of American Citizens can have their desire for Federal Election Voting legally restricted to American Citizens.
Proving ID for voting is no different from proving ID to see a doctor, enter a Hospital (even as a visitor), boarding an airplane, entering a ‘secured’ office building or anything else (even entering the audience of the Hard-Left hate-promoting television show “The View.”) The only exception that I know of is to empower massive illegal voting in favor of the Democrat Hard-Left Islamic Alliance Party.
Because Republican Majority Leader, John Thune, (obviously) loves his career more than his country or the 80% of American Citizens who adamantly favor the SAVE Act for Federal Elections, he lies to everyone and refuses to act like a self-respecting honest American and invoke the ‘Nuclear Option.’
Part IV: Solution???
(It might cost him his Political Career but it would safeguard American Federal Elections.) Perhaps if John Thune could reach into his wife’s purse and take his balls back, he could overcome his Terrorized fear of EVIL SCUMBAG PRESS retribution and act like an Adult Man.
