Posted on 01/22/2021 7:21:06 PM PST by 11th_VA
It’s a rare thing on Capitol Hill for a lawmaker’s team to try and play down their power.
In the Joe Biden-era Senate, the balance of power is split evenly between the parties, 50-50. Vice President Kamala Harris, a Democrat and the constitutional president of the Senate, gets to break the tie in votes that fall along party lines.
So that means Democrats now get to set the agenda, chair the committees and get the little perks that come with being the controlling party, like added staff and better room reservations, right? In normal times, sure. But these are not normal times. Even though Republicans don’t have a majority in the Senate any longer, under the body’s rules, the GOP still chairs some committees, the three new Senators who took their oaths this week can’t be assigned committees and McConnell can still block progress going into this two-year congressional session. Until the two parties’ leaders — or all 100 Senators on a separate track — agree to how the Upper Chamber will work for the next two years, the old rules still hold. And central to those rules, set out in a document known as an organizing resolution, is whether a lone Senator in the minority can gum up the entire agenda via the filibuster.
... The progressives in the Democratic caucus want to trigger the so-called nuclear option and start passing routine legislation by 51-vote margins. Moderates are warning that might feel good in the short run, but the change could eventually haunt Democrats when they inevitably return to the minority. Senators like Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema, Amy Klobuchar and Chris Murphy are none too eager to start down this road, knowing that the 2022 map may give Republicans a majority again....
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Mitch the Turd.
They’re gonna bulldoze right over that candy ass.
Love it! Well played, sir!
maybe some of them learned a lesson after the way Reid changed the system
This is a repeat performance every time the filibuster issue comes up.......(Yawn)
Uh, your kidding, right?
Mitch’s only skill in his performance repertoire is deadpan, which is wearing very thin as of late ...
the world’s greatest deliberative body is nothing but a parliament of whores. They do nothing but protect their own interests, and have little intent in applying the constitutional oath.
I seem to remember something about the power of the government comes from the just consent of the governed. It does not appear that this chamber has the just consent of either the right or the left.
They lose the Senate in 2022 it is still not a big deal as Biden/Harris/Obama can veto it. So for the short-medium term its not a big deal. Furthermore the 2022 map is very favorable for the Dems for Senate anyway. 2024 is our best shot of winning the Senate. Plus the new GOP will likely get rid of it in 2025 anyway if we win.
If they don't go down this road some RAT's may actually pay for their crimes . This is why they will be pressured into voting for it. I figure RATs don't let ANYBODY into their gang unless they have some kind of crime they can blackmail them with. How else does one explain their unbreakable unity?
It is a big deal - don’t want more states added to create more Democratic Senators. Absolute power corrupts absolutely
Mitch is holding firm ... trust the plan ..
The Dems can nuke the filibuster just for... the Organization Resolution!
I think that’s what Mitch is trying to trick them into doing.
So they get blamed for “nuking the filibuster” without really getting anything for it.
Senators LOVE their filibuster!
Protects them from difficult votes.
More importantly, it gives them tremendous leverage over House Members on legislation.
With the filibuster a Senator is maybe 50 times as powerful as a Congressman.
Without it only about 8 times as powerful.
So losing the filibuster reduces their power by roughly to 1/6th, and they’re forced into tough votes.
So I don’t think they ever will (though there may be more very limited restrictions they can accept).
So, since Mitch knows the filibuster is safe, as does everyone else who doesn’t talk about why Senators love the filibuster, he’s just trying to force Chucky into a false step.
Cause he’s a little b@&ch
/s
LOL
Unless the Pubbies are complete idiots (yes JoAnn, that is certainly a possibility), they will hang on to the Filibuster like it was the Hope diamond.
Actually I expect they will.
And ... as I recall our prospects in the Senate in 2022 are not great. Too many GOP Senators up for election and much fewer Dems. As I recall ...
No, but he is a piece of s__t.
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