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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At this point, the house is much more important than the senate. Since the 17th amendment turned election of senators over to inner cities, the house is important to block liberal legislation.
This is what Democracy looks l8ke. That’s why the Founding Fathers hated It
Dont worry, if ever again conservatives are a le to overcome election fraud, the filibuster will return in an instant
ping to thread and interesting info at link #3...(some of which you’ve talked about before IIRC)
When Schumer was screaming that there would be payback, this is what he meant. And honestly, had McConnell and a lot more elected Republicans fought the 2020 election with just a little energy, we may not even be here. So McConnell can spare me the fake drama. The real only hope is for a Democrat “maverick” or two to show up. Otherwise, this is Fed Gov until Nov 2022.
The corrupt readung if the Commerce Clause also hurt the States, and the country as a whole. Now, Congress regulates everything, when they do not have the right to regulate what used to be considered up to the States.
I have to say, everything Mark Levin has been saying the past year, 2020, on his show, so far has been 100% on target. Democrats will steal the election from changing election laws, Biden takes power and follows the comie manifesto he wrote with Bernie, end of energy independence, open borders, guns are going, filibuster is going, Puerto Rico will be made a state - which was mentioned last week, SCOTUS will be packed, and Republicans do absolutely nothing
Mitch finally got his dander up after 12 years sitting on his azz.
Correction, the 17th Amendment made senators elected by popular vote.
and that’s how the cow ate the cabbage
Yep. Before the War of Northern Aggression, people used to say “the United States are”. After they said “the United States is”.
Before the 17th Amendment, the Senate was the House that represented the state legislatures with each state being treated as an equal. It is why certain tasks such as ratifying treaties, approving Presidential appointments, and serving as a jury i impeachment trials were reserved for the Senate. When the 17th Amendment was ratified, the states essentially lost their voice in the American government.
Yep, the GOP talks big, but have no interest in reversing 80+ years of bad DemoNazi laws.
Democrats don’t give a hoot about McConnell’s speech...They’ll destroy our gov’t and pat each other on the back for doing it...
Also “these United States” not “the United States” .
Where was Mitch when Trump needed a fighter in his corner?
FWIW, my wife, for the good of the nation wouldn’t mind repeal of the 19A.
It was turtlespeak for, “I know you are but what am I?”
LOL! There seem to be a number of conservative women who think that.
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