Posted on 01/26/2021 4:20:01 AM PST by MtnClimber
He’s jettisoning this 215-year-old protection for minority rights based upon promises from two Democrat senators.
...Thanks to Kamala’s tie-breaking vote, Sen. Chuck Schumer is the Majority Leader. He’s proposed an equal-power sharing agreement, provided that the Senate ditches the filibuster. Of course, the notion of equal power is a chimera. I did mention Kamala’s tie-breaking vote, right?
For a while McConnell held firm, refusing to go along with Schumer’s proposal. But Schumer nagged, whined, and complained. He went on MSNBC and said that McConnell’s stubbornness was making his “entire caucus” mad. For a while, McConnell held strong.
But no longer. McConnell got word that Sen. Joe Manchin (D. West Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D. Ariz.) have promised that they won’t vote to end the filibuster:
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McConnell is out of his ever-lovin' mind!
When it comes to Manchin, except for protecting his state’s oil and gas interests, the senator from West Virginia always talks conservative and then votes leftist. As John Nolte wrote, he “did not vote to put the highly-qualified Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme Court . . . [but he] did vote to impeach President Donald Trump.”
Sinema is a different story. Her history suggests that she should be the senate equivalent of AOC and her Squad: She’s a bisexual who fervently supports LGBTQ+ issues, was a social worker, belonged to the Green Party, was a member of Code Pink, and hangs out with witches. Nevertheless, she has functioned as a moderate Democrat in the Senate. She is essentially the mirror image of John McCain: an Arizona maverick who will oppose her own party. Still, it’s hard to trust her on something this important.
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Recall McConnell. He’s gone senile.
They used to at least promise to work with us in the future, if we let them have their way...
One wonders how much “gratitude” the turtle received. Traitor.
Cocaine Mitch’s Chinese handlers have directed Mitch to abandon the filibuster because it’s too hard for a native Chinese speaker to pronounce correctly.
How dumba$$ can McConnell be? Rats have ZER00000000 integrity (actually, they have less than that). The deal will be out the window the FIRST time it is inconvenient to the Rats.
McConnell, the so called “Institutionalist” so reveres the Halls of Congress that he let those filthy Dems walk into the senate yesterday and make a fool of the Senator and the impeachment process. It was folly, and Mitch allowed the Dems to deface the Halls, so much for Mitch, total loser, RETIRE!
Just keep whispering “Patriot Party” in Mitch’s ear.
Mitch McConnell, the last majority leader of the now defunct Republican party.
His China Chao connections
I so agree with you.... don’t understand why the other republican Senators don’t just remove McConnell as Minority leader. They are, as a group, cowardly, feckless, swamp-dwelling creatures!
Of course. That’s what the GOP does. They get all the power and money with none of the work.
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