Posted on 01/06/2022 2:57:54 AM PST by Kaslin
“Please please please lift the filibuster, Chuck. It totally will not come back and bite you on your Swalwell valve like it did Harry Reid after he did it for circuit court judges. No, your initiative to give the incoming GOP majority and incoming GOP president unlimited power is a smart plan that will cement your reputation as a strategic genius.”
It sure will. Because it will enable the Dems to pass their federal takeover of elections in their never-ending battle for lies, injustice, and the Soviet way. And then there will BE no incoming GOP majority OR GOP president.
I can see the Democrats getting rid of the filibuster and then, for awhile, successfully ramming an extreme Leftist slate of legislation down our throats.
But (perhaps) the day will come when Republicans once again hold the reins of power. And if that ever happens, the Republicans will surely re-institute the filibuster to make sure that no bold Republican proposals can be passed by themselves.
We just had a GOP POTUS and GOP Congress. What happened? “His” party sabotaged and colluded with Democrats to steal his term in office and disenfranchise us all. Don’t hold your breath and wait for the GOP to save us from Marxist Democrats. It’s not happening because the GOP prefers Obama’s Marxism to GOP voter MAGA.
There will always enough weak sisters in the “gang of ?????” to come to a compromise over giving democrats whatever they friggin want
The GOP is steadily being taken over by deplorables. It’s becoming noticeable, as neophytes such as MTG get elected, and party veterans such as Ted Cruz and Trey Gowdy come over to the bright side of The Force, albeit in fits and starts. The leftards’ worst weapon, the media, no longer holds the monopoly that they briefly regained in 2020. There is now Locals, Rumble, several rivals to Twitter and Facebook...
And on the other side of the mirror, there’s Manchin and Sinema, who came through this time. Dems did not get what they fervently wanted. Do a victory dance, already, and then go once more into the breach.
I’m actually registering as a Republican this year, in order to absentee vote in the primary against Governor Quisling Kemp.
I guess I was referring more, in a general way, to the idea that Republicans always compromise their power away when its not necessary.
Manchin and Sinema seem firm on keeping the filibuster and I don’t see them changing. Especially Manchin, unless he is planning on retiring after his next election, or switching parties (and I don’t see that as likely)
Haven’t heard much out of Sinema since before Christmas
Only problem McConnell will reinstate it immediately. You know bipartisanship and all that crap
Chuckie should go forward w/ the filibuster plan on the assumption that a desiccated old pervert polling on a par with the desirability of having cholera is not going to drag down all the Dem marginal seats.......25 Dems have already jumped the sinking ship.
Hope springs eternal for the left......it IS possible that a midterm election with a massively unpopular president of the majority party will go well for the incumbents.
And BTW, it’s also possible that Nanzi Pelosi will be voted Miss America, Kamala Harris will enter a nunnery .....and Ted Lieu will win the Nobel Prize for his pioneering work in the fields of string theory and quantum mechanics.
Update
Just read a clip from axios that Sinema said would still ‘not support any effort to get rid of the 60 vote threshold’ ,at a democrat luncheon Tuesday (according to familiar sources)
Nailed it. Once the elections are federalized, the Dems will steal all future elections. They stole the 2020 election and have not been held accountable.
And as elections become foregone conclusions, conservatives will fail to show up, thereby making the election forecasts self-fulfilling prophecies. Soon Dems will get 90% of the national vote, because only 45% of the voters will show up to vote.
“The GOP wil…” I wish I knew the republican party this guy is talking about. The Republicans are scared to death of losing the filibuster because they will lose their main excuse for not delivering on their campaign promises when they have power. Not because they’re against the democrats agenda.
Exactly right. That aligns perfectly with my repeated assertions to "never underestimate the ability of the STUPID party (Republicans) to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory."
They've done it time and again.
Republicans, when they pull a Mittens/McQueeg, get praised to the sky for their misdeeds. Democrats, on the other hand, get reviled and demonized for crossing the aisles. So if Manchin holds the line, he’s a profile in courage. Same for Sinema. If.
Fortunately, the leftards are playing them both exactly wrong. They’re so entitiled, they think hassling a lady in the bathroom is a good tactic, or going to Manchin’s state and making stupid speeches about what a poopy pants he is, just like they thought threatening to fund a primary against Susan Collins was a good tactic regarding Kavanaugh. They sincerely believe that temper tantrums and intimidation work. Because they actually do a lot of the time.
Kurt: what have you been smoking,must be good stuff. National concealed carry? Remember what happened last time Republicans held all of the levers of power? What will change? Republicans trot out this old saw everytime they are underdogs.
The Dems will pass their election cheating bill, and the SCOTUS will bless it. They, in effect, already have. Gorsuch has, on too many occasions, shown activist tendencies. Kavanaugh is from the Bush orbit. ‘Nuff said. And Barret is obviously compromised. Along with Roberts and the other liberals on the court, voting steal is a shoe-in; as is packing the Court.
No, keep the filibuster.
“ It sure will. Because it will enable the Dems to pass their federal takeover of elections in their never-ending battle for lies, injustice, and the Soviet way. And then there will BE no incoming GOP majority OR GOP president.”
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Yup, that the fatal flaw with the contrarian argument.
Kurt Schlichter has a wonderful way to get the Freerepublic Surrender Monkey Caucus in high screech!
Enjoy feeling doomed now, Surrender Monkeys because there won’t be any “see I told you so” high this November.
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