AOC on dealing with Manchin-style good-ole-boy politics

Good segment from last week with AOC telling the Senate and the President that they need to stop playing good-ole-boy games and get serious about enacting voting-rights legislation and the Build Back Better program. And she's right. : We Are Beyond The Time For Something On Voting Rights To Pass 12/20/2021

Lisa Hagen describes the status of the fight for voting rights legislation in The Democrats’ Never-Ending Battle on Voting Rights U.S. News 12/23/2021

Without Republican support, Democrats’ best shot at getting legislation through the upper chamber is to lower the threshold to overcome filibusters from 60 to 51 votes – a tactic that requires a rules change. No small feat in itself, their biggest obstacle to making the change may be presented by their own members who don’t support such a move, dimming the prospects for passage.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York is vowing that Democrats will press forward on voting rights early next year, even if they have to change the rules on their own. If all 50 Democrats can get behind a substantive rules change – support they currently don’t have – they significantly raise their chances of pushing through voting reforms.

That remains the biggest open question for the party and one they discussed as a caucus during a virtual meeting on Tuesday night. On it, Schumer said the Senate will vote on a rules change regarding the filibuster if Republicans still block voting rights legislation in January.

And in a Wednesday night interview with ABC News, Biden went further than he has before, definitively saying he supports making an “exception” to nix the 60 votes to break a filibuster for voting rights. [my emphasis]