Yep.
And end the filibuster on everything.
If the Democrats won’t “work across the aisle”, then proceed without them.
The Democrats clearly intend to use liberal judges to impede our agenda. The 4-4 supreme court will allow them to get away with that indefinitely. we won’t get a damned thing done until we get Gorsuch nominated so he has to be nominated by any means necessary.
Exactly. I read up on the history of the filibuster and the intent was apparently for the Senate to take the edge of things coming out of the House that were too radical. Presumably they wanted to pass less extreme legislation out of the Senate by making it necessary for the majority party to moderate legislation enough so that they could convince enough of the opposition party Senators to vote for it.
The current crop of Democrat Senators has totally sabotaged that process by simply opposing all Republican-authored legislation without thought or any willingness to compromise. They are subverting the intent of the filibuster. If the Dems are going to be that blindly partisan, the Republican majority may as well end the filibuster altogether by a simple-majority rules vote. Then let the Dems slowly twist in the wind and see how they like that.
Then we can put together a single Obamacare replacement package covering phases 1, 2 and 3 and get that passed by simple-majority votes, confirm Gorsuch and the next conservative nominees, and quickly fix a whole bunch of other insane left-wing crap put in place over the last 8 years.
There is nothing sacred about a rule that exists only on the senate rulebook and not in the constitution.
In my opinion it has hurt the nation far more than it has helped it.
A simple majority in congress should be the method for moving and changing legislation. After all, that is the constitutional method.
It allows us to quickly fix old legislation and to quickly respond to important events. If those are off target, then as already said, things can be quickly fixed
McConnell should let this asshat filibuster, then do the nuclear thing.
MCCONNELL WOULD BE FOOLISH TO AGREE TO NOT GO NUCLEAR IN RETURN FOR SCHUMER AGREEING NOT TO FILIBUSTER.
Let Schumer pound sand.
Filibustering this nominee will make the democrats look stupid to the American public.