Posted on 01/06/2022 2:57:54 AM PST by Kaslin
Chuck Schumer, the Inspector Clouseau of Senate Majority Leaders in comparison to Mitch McConnell’s Sherlock Holmes, has decided to try to strong-arm Joe Manchin and Kristin Sinema into dropping their opposition to killing the filibuster by making a big public show of it. Hey, that’s plan has worked great so far. I sure hope he succeeds – for once – for three reasons.
Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett.
As so often happens with the Dems, Napoleon’s injunction to never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake comes to mind. So does Br'er Rabbit’s plea to Br'er Fox not to toss him into the briar patch.
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. And don’t worry, this cheesy expedient cannot possibly boomerang.
We totally do not want us conservatives to have the unfettered power to enact our whole agenda.
We don’t want national concealed carry.
We don’t want to ban teachers' unions.
We don’t want to regulate Big Tech.
We don’t want to repeal whatever pro-cheating laws you pass and then implement a real voting rights agenda of in-person voting only, on one day, with photo voter ID.
Really. Trust us, we will definitely not do these things if you end the filibuster. Pinky swear!
Now, you might point out that the potential downside assumes that the GOP will retake the House and Senate in 2022 and the presidency in 2024. Good point. Ignore that possibility! You should go forward on the assumption that a desiccated old pervert polling on par with cholera is not going to drag down all your marginal seats. Hey, it’s possible that a midterm election with a massively unpopular president of the majority party will go well for the incumbents. It’s also possible that Ted Lieu will win the Nobel Prize for his pioneering work in the fields of string theory and quantum mechanics.
You might also argue that breaking the filibuster just a little bit for one teensy-weensy thing – your election cheating initiative – will not lead to a total destruction of the filibuster. This is akin to a horny, condom-less teenager in the backseat with his girlfriend trying to convince her that there’s nothing to worry about if they just go part of the way.
Some might say, however, there’s no part of the way. Again, let’s review.
Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett.
But hey, maybe you’ll get a pass from the GOP this time. Maybe the Republicans won’t retaliate. This is not going to totally infuriate the incoming majority and its base and force even the most steadfast adherents to those norms and traditions to make the Democrats pay. Maybe the norms and traditions crowd will overlook your breach of the norms and traditions and not hit back. There’s always Romney to pin your hopes on to be a sap, and going all-in on him to be an invertebrate is always a sweet bet. But the Senate is not going to be 50/50. It’s going to be 53 or 54 Republicans to 47 or 46 Democrats, and that makes Romney even more superfluous than usual. But hey, I am sure that after you shaft the GOP when they are in the minority, they will totally forgive you when they take the majority. The GOP base will totally not primary any senator who fails to make your party pay. And Cocaine Mitch is a forgiving soul. He’s not vindictive at all.
But maybe the GOP won’t win the White House in 2024. Maybe Biden will run again, but if not, Kamala Harris is a competent woman who the voters love. Your party has an innovative platform centered on making everything worse and calling voters racist, so why worry? Or maybe Trump will run again and America will focus on that scary insurrection you still hear so much about if you are part of the 0.5% of Americans who watch MSNBCNN. After all, outside the Beltway, the Republican threat to Our Democracy is all anyone talks about. Not gas prices. Not COVID panic. Not dead troops. No, everyone is totally focused on the minor skirmish of a year ago. Biden is a shoe-in – those poll numbers are just more evidence of the anti-Democrat bias of the mainstream media!
You might also think that your “Voting Rights” law might seal the deal for permanent Democrat dominance. If you just squeak this federal takeover of elections through, then you never have to worry about Republicans winning ever again! Sure, the Latinx voters – who love being called that, by the way – your party was counting on to stay Democrat forever and ever are now splitting 50/50 for the GOP, but maybe your election fraud plot might work with half your coalition saying “Adiós.” Maybe.
Oh, wait. There’s a problem.
Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett.
Weird how those names keep coming up. But I’m sure they will allow you to impose a massive scheme to steal elections in perpetuity by nuking the idea of federalism via nuking the filibuster. Or not.
Hey, it’s worth a try. What’s the worst that could happen? Could you end up eliminating the filibuster to pass a law to enable election fraud, but then have whatever parts remain intact after the Supreme Court vivisects it still not be enough to get outside the margin of fraud because the Democrats have polling numbers within the Lincoln Project’s preferred age range?
Nah.
So go for it. Please. And I am totally ready for it. I have already picked out my new go-to pistol for when California gets must-issue concealed carry jammed down its throat!
Whatever it takes to oust Marxists works for me.
Post of the day.
How are you planning on doing that? Georgia has nonpartisan registration and open primaries.
bkmk
They won’t even have to show up. CA is now an all mail-in state joining the likes of Oregon and Washington. Lots of ghost voters will vote. They won’t even need real people to win elections.
Kurt must’ve imagined a GOP in “retaliatory-mode” in a fevered dream.
He must’ve also imagined the GOP retaking all three branches.
LOL.
“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.”
No truer words were ever written. To say the Repukes have no spine is too mild.
The GOP is steadily being taken over by deplorables.
How so? 145 House Republicans voted to make Liz Cheney a leader after she voted to remove President Trump based on a Democrat hoax. 90%+ of them will be reelected. McCarthy and McConnell will be the majority leaders if the GOP takes control of Congress in 2022. How is that a “take over”? Has China Mitch withdrawn his suggestion that Trump should be personally sued over 1/6? No.
Don’t confuse a few outliers with the GOP structurally changing. It isn’t. The Trump/MAGA hating donors, RNC apparatchiks and elected GOPers haven’t gone anywhere. They’ve colluded with Marxist Democrats for five years and will continue to do so.
I rarely disagree with Colonel Schlichter. This is one of those times.
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Trump/MAGA haters like the CEOs of GOYA Foods and My Pillow? Mitch is on the way out, so is McCarthy, and as for Liz Cheney, she is gone. She just doesn’t know it yet. I’m sorry you’re used to microwaved TV dinners and deep fried breaded chicken and french fries. Fast food. But this is a process, and it’s been going on for a long time.
It started with Wm. F. Buckley Jr. in the 1950s, continued with Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich. Trump is just the latest stage in this process, and hardly the last. They hate him because he’s been in power, accomplished great things, and is poised to be in power yet again. And he is the latest stage in this process that they hate.
The GOP might not even be around forever. If they reject this process, they will be eaten by it, and the process will continue without them. The Dems ARE being eaten by it. Because they stole and lied and obfuscated and pulled every dirty trick in the book, and the people hate them. And they refuse to learn and adapt. So they’re the walking dead.
Carl Sandberg gave the process a name: The People, Yes.
Then why did the libs get swept in VA? And don’t tell me they “let us win” to throw us off.
He operates in bad faith in everything he does.
The elections in VA weren’t federalized, yet. The”sweep” was by a small margin thanks to the big turnout in rural VA. And in NoVA, the school controversy swayed Independents and some Dems. If they have all mail-in balloting in VA, it is all over for VA, which still remains a blue state.
MD and MA have Republican governors.
He’s holding his vote 1/17 on MLK Day.
At least he’s consistent;D
Typical gloom and doomer and troll like.
They took the House of Delegates as well as the 3 primary races which was more than huge and yet you blow it off as an anomaly.
Go play in traffic
I lived in NoVA (McLean) for 36 years leaving in 2015. I was very active in Rep politics including participating in the Fairfax County Republican Committee and as a delegate in several state conventions.
I had one on one briefings on immigration with Eric Cantor, George Allen, Ed Gillespie, and many others. I was part of the VA Tea Party state steering committee and was a sponsor of the State Tea Party convention.
I have witnessed the transformation of VA from a solid Red state to solid blue state. I understand why the Youngkin victory was a blip, not a trend. We used to have huge majorities in the House of Delegates. Mass immigration and domestic migration from the Northeast have transformed VA to a solid blue state. And as a poll watcher/election officer, I know how the Dems operate to steal elections.
Harris' parents were both subject to the foreign jurisdictions that issued their passports (India, Jamaica) to visit the U.S. on work / school visas.
I see this statement a lot, with a word or two interchanged.
Often not only from rank and file, but also from more aware persons, such as yourself.
I always wonder, why, if "we" do know how they do this, do we not take measures to block it?
If it is their game, why do we continue to play by their rules and then allow them to change the rules during the game?
In a word, cowardice. They are afraid of being accused of voter suppression. They are afraid of casting doubt on the electoral system. They are afraid of being called racists. They are afraid of confrontation. They are afraid to fight. They are cowards.
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