Posted on 04/06/2017 1:27:54 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., bemoaned the state of the Senate on Thursday as Majority Leader Mitch McConnell moved to change the chamber’s rules in order to break through the Democratic filibuster of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch with a simple majority. Earlier in the day, Republicans failed to reach the 60-vote supermajority needed to end debate and proceed to a vote.
“It’s a bad day for democracy,” McCain said before entering the Senate chamber, where he later voted with fellow Republicans to change the rules. “I think it’s a terrible mistake that we will regret for many, many years to come.”
McCain called the rule-change a “slippery slope” that “will clearly lead to more extreme appointments for both sides” — and could embolden senators to change the rules for considering legislation, too.
“We went from judges, to [a] Supreme Court justice,” McCain said. “What’s next?”
McConnell has said he would not change the Senate rules for legislation.
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Why doesn’t McCain just go ahead and change his party affiliation to Democrat/Socialist/Communist?
YeeHaw............lol
Good job girls. Showing what having no respect or shame looks like......ignorant broads......
Why couldn’t he have bought the farm and not Don Rickles?
Yep sure is John. Too bad we’re a Republic.
You could have voted against it, John.
“For God’s sake, John, sit down.”
It’s been a bad century no thanks to you McCain.
Everyday that senile fool stays in the Senate is a bad day for Democracy.
Poor John is going out with tantrums, irrationality and ignorance since he is no longer relevant.
Democracy was lost the day when McCain was first elected and has lost even more every time he has been re-elected.
Any day that John McCain lives is a bad day for democracy.
Honest to God, senator. I’m really finding your remarks offensive lately. I thank you for your service, as I thank all who have served, but your conservative credentials have become a mockery. In other words, it’s becoming clear to me that you’ve ridden the Vietnam trade as far as the train will take you.
Perhaps it’s time to exit, stage left.
Idiot. This fillibuster of judges was a rule enacted in 2003
Someone wake me when McQuig approves a Republican measure or disapprove democrats.
Adams had his head on straight.
Shut up mcqueeg
Then why did you vote for it, numbskull?
It’s a bad day for McCain because it threatens the need for showboating centrist compromisers in the form of “Gangs of X” of which McCain is invariably a part. They get to come out like rock stars and “break the stalemate” to much applause and camera time. Such stalemates wouldn’t exist without the filibuster. McCain knows that doing away with the filibuster for judicial appointments is the slippery slope to doing away with it for regular legislation. Then the senate could do its business without needing to rely on high profile McCain-led gangs of compromisers.
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