Will GOP’s PowerPoint plan to stage a coup get Sen. Kyrsten Sinema to act on filibuster? – Yahoo News

Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema still won’t budge on the filibuster.

I’m not sure how much more proof Sen. Kyrsten Sinema needs.

Late last week, Donald Trump’s White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, turned over to House investigators looking into the Jan. 6 insurrection a 30-plus page PowerPoint presentation designed, essentially, to overturn the 2020 election.

In other words, to stage a coup.

Then, the retired U.S. army colonel who was part of the team who created the plan told The Washington Post that he had spoken to Meadows “maybe eight to 10 times” the night before the U.S. Capitol was attacked.

Think of that.

Republicans at the highest level of the government were in possession of a blueprint to overthrow the government.

Some politicians won’t certify elections

How much more proof does Sinema need of the GOP’s concerted effort to, one way or another, rig the election process or completely circumvent it in order to seize and maintain power?

Look at what GOP politicians are doing at the state level.

In Georgia, Republican gubernatorial candidate David Perdue says he would not have signed the certification of the state’s 2020 election results if he had been governor at the time. Even though no fraud had been found and even though Georgia law doesn’t allow the governor to not certify an election.

Does Sinema not believe such behavior will follow with other Republicans? Has she not seen who’s running in Arizona?

Voter suppression laws have been introduced in GOP-controlled legislatures like ours all over the country. Obstacles to voting. Restrictions on mail-in ballots. Impediments for minority and rural voters.

Federal legislation is the only hope

There is federal legislation aimed at leveling the playing field nationwide. But, in order to pass it, the Senate must abolish its filibuster rule, which requires a 60-vote supermajority before any bill can advance. It’s not in the Constitution. It’s something very few states do. Arizona does not.

Sinema continues to support the rule, however.

She told The Washington Post, “My opinion is that legislation that is crafted together, in a bipartisan way, is the legislation that’s most likely to pass and stand the test of time. And I would certainly encourage my colleagues to use that effort to move forward.”

Except, they aren’t …….

Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/gops-powerpoint-plan-stage-coup-150011864.html