Posted on 01/25/2021 2:48:33 PM PST by Kaslin
All moot, when murkowski switches
Who cares? The only thing the GOP will use it for is to force the leftist to pay more money for them to surrender.
Who cares if McConnell can do anything. He’s pure enemy, globalist, corrupt and eyeballs deep in China. He hates the wall and loves Obamacare. He hates Trump and loves the intel “community”.
He offers nothing.
In other words, let schumer have everything he wants and keep the filibuster as an illusion. Sounds like something the gop would agree to eagerly. They are all about deception of where they stand.
Yeah...plus I am sure his commie chink wife will talk him out of it in their brand spanking new beach house!
He doesn’t want to stop it.
The majority of Mitch’s wealth has come from selling the votes of his party when the GOP is in the minority. The filibuster has allowed him to cut deals with the Democrats that line the pockets of he and his fellow RINO Senators.
But McConnell is nearing the end of the trail and most of the current legislation proposed by the Dems are also supported by the ChiComs AND the US Chamber of Commerce.
By offering tepid objections as the filibuster is phased out, he allows his benefactors to get what they want while avoiding blame.
And that’s what he’s excelled at throughout his entire career.
They’ve had a “power sharing” agreement for a long long time.
nailed it
Eliminating the Senate filibuster rule would require a rules change which requires a 2/3 majority to enact. It is unimaginable that 17 Republicans would agree to giving up the filibuster.
The rule harkens back to one of the practices of ancient Rome that made their republic succeed for nearly four centuries. Every elected magisterial office like a counsel would have two holders (like the 2 Senators from each state). Either one could veto the decision of the other so they had to negotiate a mutually agreeable outcome to enact a law. It worked pretty well except for one temporary position called a “dictator” that was given absolute authority to deal with national emergencies and had no counterpart. The most famous of these was Julius Caesar and the rest, as they say, is history.
Mitch already has the Filibuster Card. It requires 60 votes to bring up the motion to change the Filibuster, because it is a Standing Order. He doesn’t need to trade anything to get what he already has.
What if Cocaine Mitch doesn’t want to preserve the filibuster?
“If McConnell is going to make this major concession to the narrowest of Democratic majorities, he shouldn’t do so for free. “
He’ll think he’s bargaining and has a deal. And then the D’s will change the Senate rules anyway to ban the filibuster.
Mitch is probably offering a conviction vote on Trump as a trade for the filibuster.
Too late to grow a spine.
Great summary
If it happens, and that’s doubtful, wouldn’t Schumer be assumed to be using the nuclear option to change the rules of the senate? So to my very limited understanding, that’s 51 votes not 67. Or is that wrong? I’m no expert.
Freegards
Yeah, Schumer will tell McConnell to kiss his arse and McConnell will try to get the number of times down as far as he can.
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