Posted on 03/16/2021 5:50:31 PM PDT by Rummyfan
In respect of the filibuster, Senator Mitch McConnell certainly put the hay down where us mules can get to it. The Republican leader unloaded after a hapless Ben Cardin, senator of Maryland, while talking on Monday with Transportation Secretary Buttigieg, “accidentally” got caught by a hot-mic and, as the New York Post retailed the story, “outed plans to pass an infrastructure bill without Republican votes.”
Mr. McConnell responded today with a prediction of the kind rarely heard in the upper chamber. “Let me say this very clearly, for all 99 of my colleagues,” the Kentuckian rasped. “Nobody serving in this chamber can even begin — can even begin — to imagine what a completely scorched earth Senate would look like. None of us has even served one minute in a Senate that was completely drained of comity and consent.”
The Republican marked that Senator Chuck Schumer, fewer than four years go, had called the legislative filibuster “the most important distinction between the Senate and the House” and had suggested that without the 60-vote threshold for legislation, the Senate “becomes a majoritarian institution like the House, much more subject to the winds of short-term electoral change. No Senator would like to see that happen.”
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Good. Because Durbin should be mocked each and every day.
17th
17th Amendment... and it should be repealed!
I realize the late Rush Limbaugh and Trump say its better to try and work with the Republican party instead of starting a third party.
Lately I dissagee. Both parties need to be culled from the fabric of society, they can start with turtle head
17th Amendment... and it should be repealed!
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Agree 100%
It upset the careful balance of the checks.
That took reduced the power of the states and made Fedzilla less accountable.
Mitch is all hat and no cattle, he knew the GA general election and Senate runnoffs were rigged by the Dems, yet he happily allowed Schumer to make him his b@%*h anyway...
If Meghan Markel were on cocaine always,
trafficked in children, sold out America to China,
while bedding the honeypot given,
she could be the backstabbing, shame of Kentucky: McConnell.
Why does any state have more than one house since both are filled by population? Only Nebraska seems to have understood the implication of Reynolds v. Sims.
“That took reduced the power of the states and made Fedzilla less accountable.”
The Civil War eviscerated the power of the states and made them subservient to the central government.
And what does Mitch mean? Is he going to write more stern letters? Shudder.
So Schumer and McConnell are both hypocrites.
When Schumer was Minority Leader, he was all for the filibuster.
When McConnell was Majority Leader, he oversaw the use of the reconciliation procedure to pass a major fiscal bill (the Trump tax cuts) without a single Democratic vote. Now, he is absolutely horrified that Schumer, as Majority Leader, might oversee the use of the reconciliation procedure to pass a major fiscal bill (on infrastructure) without a single Republican vote.
I just wish they would both stop posturing. They should admit that it’s power politics. Right now, the Dems have the power, though limited by the narrowness of their edge.
You are correct, the 17th just finished off what the war started.
“That took reduced the power of the states and made Fedzilla less accountable.”
The Civil War eviscerated the power of the states and made them subservient to the central government.
The “elephant in the room” that the politicians and media hide in coverage of this debate is that filibuster increases a Senator’s power to about 5 times that of a House Member.
Amy of them that can be coerced into ceding that power is a fool.
BTW our Founders incorporated the use of self-interest to preserve their Constitution in many places (though not specifically here).
AMEN!
Go to China, McTurtle.
It was more important to get rid of Trump and open the border back up to Mitch and his bitches.
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