Posted on 01/13/2022 2:54:05 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
Just under five years ago more than half of the Democrats currently in the Senate signed a letter defending the 60-vote filibuster on legislation – but now many of them are leading the charge to eliminate it as soon as this weekend.
"Reality changed," Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, said when asked what is different in 2022 compared with 2017, when she was among the signers of the letter led by Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Chris Coons, D-Del.
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Sen. Mazie Hirono said "reality changed" between 2017 and 2022, which is why she now opposes the Senate filibuster. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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But 61 total senators, including 31 Democrats (26 of whom are still in office), asked then-Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and then-Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to keep the filibuster in place. They did.
Now, most Senate Democrats, including a significant majority of the letter's signers, oppose the filibuster.
"I'm surprised because at the time it was very easy to get the signatures," Collins told Fox News when asked about the Democrats who signed her letter but are now disavowing it. "This is quite a change in position for anyone who signed that letter."
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You can't make this stuff up.
Because leftists have no set principles. They are creatures of expediency.
Only dizzy Susan Collins would do something like this thinking it would contain our enemies. She continues to redefine the word “clueless.”
Democrats want a Democrat Dictatorship and the endless money(empty bank accounts) that will come with it
The Democrats and their Calvin Ball approach to legislative process.
seriously...”Why” requires a discussion?
Gullible.
This is the closest they have ever come to achieving absolute power! They will pull out all stops to win!
They'll change their position on a dime to stay in power.
Because the reality is if they can pass their cheat to win legislation then the filibuster becomes moot anyway
Reality may have changed, but a retarded sack of lying dog feces like Mazie Hirono will always be a retarded sack of lying dog feces.
Biden on campaign trail. I’ll not end the filibuster
Mazie lives in an alternate reality.
Wonder if she’s actually surprised or she’s trying to point out their flip flopping in a “kind and gentle” way...given confrontation isn’t normally her MO.
“Reality changed” ... LOL
It isn’t the flip flopping I was referring to as being something you couldn’t make up...it was the way she’s trying to explain it away. “reality changed”...not “circumstances” changed, etc.
A year from now reality might change again Morono and of boy will she be for the filibuster then.
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