Democrats back where they started on voting rights: The Note

"I’m tired of being quiet," President Joe Biden said Tuesday.

The TAKE with Rick Klein

"I'm tired of being quiet," President Joe Biden said Tuesday, describing his frustration with private conversations that have failed to change the dynamics around voting rights.

But changing the volume doesn't change votes -- and, tellingly, the president still didn't name names. He raised the stakes -- a "turning point in this nation's history," "not just for the moment, but for the ages" -- in a debate that's been frozen for a year at the federal level, with few hopes of a different outcome in the Senate.

Biden and his Democratic Party are about where they've been all along: divided on tactics and strategy, frustrated with each other and probably not changing the minds that matter. A vow to change Senate rules "whichever way they need to be changed" doesn't matter if all Senate Democrats fail to agree when a vote is forced by leadership in the coming days.