Posted on 01/27/2017 1:30:08 PM PST by ColdOne
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Friday all but ruled out the possibility of a change to the filibuster rule this year.
McConnell made his comment in an interview with The Hill one day after President Trump said he wants Senate Republicans to strip Democrats of the power to filibuster Supreme Court nominees if they attempt to block his pick.
“Senate rules are a matter for the Senate and a lot of other people have opinions,” McConnell said.
“We’ve already adopted the rules for this Congress at the beginning of the year. Basically we didn’t adopt any because in the Senate rules are permanent, unlike the House which every two year adopts a new set of rules. We don’t.”
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The filibuster only works one way. If the GOP wouldn’t filibuster extremists like Kagan and Sotomayor they won’t filibuster anyone.
McConnell promised to nuke the filibuster for SCOTUS and LEGISLATION if Reid went nuclear.
McConnell is an effin liar.
Surprising exactly no one.
“Well, Mitt, I have second thoughts about Elaine’s nomination....”
Watching Trump, a man of action, and Mitt, a man of inertia, this week shows what we have had to endure for the past 28 years in GOP leadership.
He has been paid off or blackmailed in my opinion.
Rescind his wife’s cabinet appointment now!
I havent been for years with out senate “top leadership”.
They are uniparty and need to go.
“Alison Grimes was the lesser evil.”
I hate McConnell as much as you do, and my own state’s resident snake, John McCain. But never, ever trust a Democrat with your second amendment rights.
A junior Democrat for 6 years would be less damaging than a turncoat Majority Leader and a senior Democrat in an R jersey.
Bingow
Charge McConnell with treason and remove him from the senate.
????? Garland, thankfully went out with the trash (Obama).
He is essentially/effectively a plant for the other side.
Every time an opportunity arises to restore the COTUS in a meaningful way there is someone who betrays us.
Convention of States seems to be the only remedy.
Mark Levin
The Liberty Amendments
RESTORING THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC
https://www.amazon.com/Liberty-Amendments-Mark-R-Levin/dp/145160632X
the best idea is to...
get as much as we can before asking
that the rules be changed.
ask for this later
I understand the type of job McConnell has is a thankless task and most people don't want to do it. You get blamed for everything, but still, there are others in the Senate who can do the job.
Yes, I agree with you.
——Those are the rules the current Senate is observing. Nothing has changed.——
Yeah, I’m reading though the comments and thinking what the hell are these freepers talking about...
I guess they are so used to the post turtle stabbing us in the back, they assumed the worst...
What a master negotiator McConnell is! /s
“Really? So the rules have always said majority vote on all nominations but the Supreme Court?
“Mitch, you are a dumb@ss...or you think we are.”
Pat o’ the back!
Rarely do I meet a man who says so exactly what I wish to say!
Reid only tossed out the filibuster rule for appellate/Federal district Judges.
Filibuster for legislation and Supreme Court Judges was still intact. In 210 a Republican wave hitt the HOR. Filibuster for legislation remained intact. When Repubs broke the Super Majotrity Reid only ended the filibuster for a appellate/district Judges.
We need to shut down his phone line and jam his e-mail with protest messages. He needs Freeping.
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