Posted on 01/26/2021 7:01:13 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
On Monday night, GOP Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell declared that his battle to keep the Senate filibuster in place had been won.
McConnell released a statement reading:
Today, two Democratic Senators publicly confirmed they will not vote to end the legislative filibuster. They agree with President Biden’s and my view that no Senate majority should destroy the right of future minorities of both parties to help shape legislation. The legislative filibuster was a key part of the foundation beneath the Senate’s last 50-50 power-sharing agreement in 2001. With these assurance, I look forward to moving ahead with a power-sharing agreement modeled on that precedent.
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I just do not believe anything out of turtles mouth
Democrats always keep their promises, so we have nothing to fear, right?
I heard one was AZ Dim Sinema. Who is the other? That really doesn’t matter. The dims will keep trying to end the filibuster. After all, they have three very receptive RINOs who hate freedom. I believe they could get Mittens, Collins, and Murkowski to vote with them.
Manchin I think.
The filibuster will be gone within a month because Democrat promises are worthless.
Puerto Rico and DC will be made states before the end of Winter.
Biden needs the cover. To left the left run-a-muck would tip the at least the Senate back to R.
Good one.
Filibuster in our time?
“Fillibustering is hard!”...Barbie.
Post 6
Yep
Soon Mitch may be moving on to a cell.
He’s a fool and a back stabber.
Notice how the Turtle fights twice as hard for Senate minority rights than fighting when he has the majority like the Dems would?
These frauds LIVE for a 50/50 split in both houses.
EVERY TIME we give them large majorities since 1994 they do their best to destroy it.
It is all the hope we can get. Don’t knock it, there are plenty of coal miners in the Appalachians.
-PJ
Specter suggests Reid reneged on word.Newly-turned Democrat Arlen Specter today hinted that that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid reneged on his word to allow Specter to keep his seniority on committees on which he sits. "Sen. Reid assured me that I would keep my committee assignments, and that I would have the same seniority as if I had been elected as a Democrat in 1980," Specter said in a written statement today.Reid Bows to Far Left as Rs Rank Judges Issue #1.
And they undoubtedly have the Rasmussen survey results in the back of their minds as they consider their reaction to Majority Leader Reids broken promise to confirm three appeals court nominees before the Memorial Day recess, as well as Reids sure-to-be-broken earlier promises to meet the historical average (17) for appeals court confirmations in a presidents final two years. With just a couple of months left in the confirmation window, Reid is less than halfway to meeting that average.[snip]
A good GOP Senate source reports today that Minority Leader Mitch McConnell addressed the entire Republican Conference about the judge-fight issue. McConnell is said to have been very insistent that he would not let Majority Leader Reid's broken promise go unpunished He would not tell the Conference exactly what action he was planning, but he did say it would be very firm, and that all concerned would know it when we see it. Quin Hillyer (5/21/08)
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While Sen. Lott overcame numerous obstacles to get Paez and Berzon confirmed, Sen. Reid has looked for excuses to renege on his pledge.
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GOP senators are understandably angry that Sen. Reid broke the golden rule of senatorial honor by reneging on his commitment.
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Democrats Target Coburns Holds
To ease passage of the public lands measure, Reid promised Coburn the chance to offer a limited number of amendments.Reid: No Vote On Lifting Drug Import Ban Before Health-Care BillBut after the majority leader objected to a Coburn proposal that would have eased restrictions on firearms in national parks, the package stalled for months, prompting Coburn to charge that Reid reneged on their agreement.
Coburn eventually got to offer four amendments all of which were defeated but not the guns measure.
Republicans accused U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., of reneging Tuesday on a pledge to allow a Senate vote on a measure lifting an import ban on pharmaceutical drugs before lawmakers take up health-care legislation.The development, supported by major drug makers, comes as the Senate is moving to craft the politically delicate compromises needed for the broader health care overhaul bill.
In a letter to a bipartisan group of senators that have been pushing for the import ban to be scrapped, Reid said there wouldn't be time in the busy legislative calendar for full consideration of legislation lifting the long-standing prohibition now.
"He did commit to us and obviously that commitment is not going to be kept," Senator John McCain, R-Ariz., said Tuesday evening.
Of course it was. All of the comments to the contrary were bunk. An increasing number of people around here like narrative over fact.
Schumer would not give McConnell his word that the filibuster would remain in place. But other Dem Senators did.
In either case, there is still no stopping the Democrats from doing this if they want to. It is already a Senate rule. The deal is only as good as their word. Beyond that McConnell has zero - zero - power to stop them. Doing away with it would be using the “nuclear option” - make a parliamentary challenge to it, having the Chair rule, then voting to override the Chair - using that procedure to change the rules with a simple majority.
Some people trashed McConnell for not doing away with the filibuster when the GOP was in control - it would be gone now to give Democrats total free reign had that been done.
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