“They’re all committed to it now, because Chuck has made them take a public position. Every Democratic challenger, I’m told, running for the Senate is taking the same position,” McConnell said. “I think they fully intend to do it if they can.”
Thanks for advocating for a good reason to have democratic control of the senate
Just once, I wish the Dem leadership would be anywhere near as based as Republican demagogues always pretend they are 😮💨
Nice to have some reasons to vote for them instead of just voting against nakedly racist authoritarianism.
democrats never did when they had the opportunity and needed it. why would they now if they don’t need it?
When was that? Like 2008? Or are you talking about the ultra slim margin we had that was composed of bait and switch Sinema and Ol’ House Boat Manchin?
it’s always one or 2 democrats and it will always be; it was lieberman the last time before sinema and manchin.
Always is a terrible word. We need to ensure that filibuster removal is run on and believed by all Democrats we elect so even if it is 51/49, we can change the filibuster rule or remove it entirely.
Democrats have and always will have a rotating villain to blame when they don’t want to pass something. The same way they will always have party sheepdogs
If we’d had 55 senators, Manchin and Sinema would have been irrelevant. Vote Democrat.
You have now entered the circular logic phase of defeatism.
Next comes:
“Democats never get anything done, though!”
^pst they can’t they don’t have enough votes^
“They should learn to compromise then.”
… sometime later
“They just give Republicans everything they want.”
Give the democrats a real majority. They will certainly fuck some things up because the corporations can’t have senators doing their job but at least let’s see how progressive these Dems can really be.
Self fulfilling prophesy. You dumb fucks are the REASON we have a bitch of a time getting more than the slimmest of majorities.
Oh no Mitch, you mean you’ll actually have to do your job instead of sending Ted Cruz out to read Green Eggs and Ham? I feel so bad for you.
Filibusting senators don’t even do that anymore. All the senator has to do is send an email saying that they will filibust.
Is that a promise?
Don’t tempt me with a good time
Exactly! End another remnant of the North placating the South to get them to sign the Constitution
There’s nothing in the constitution about the filibuster. It’s just a Senate rule and the current version (where you don’t have to make long speeches in an ultimately doomed attempt to block legislation with majority support) dates to the 1970’s. They adopted it because in the TV era, Senators were filibustering just to get on the national news and make a name for themselves.
It’s just tradition at this point. And tradition is just peer pressure from dead people.
Also: we know Republicans don’t give a single flying fuck about tradition when the shoe is on the other foot and it’s getting in the way of their power grabs. The Supreme Court would be very different if they actually cared about respecting traditions in government (amongst many other things)
Is that quote accurate?
I thought there would be 30 seconds worth of ellipses in between.
I’m all for it, given the current climate of stupid, but be careful what you wish for. Watch them dickheads.
Cue Lucy VanPelt holding football meme
Hope so. I want to watch Mitch’s legacy get destroyed as much as possible.
Don’t worry, he’ll go down in history as “The hypocrite who screwed over Barrack Obama and Merrick Garland, and set the country back decades in social justice.”
So… a champion of conservatism,then.
Yes, but I like to think that in a few decades our vision will be a little clearer, and we’ll see this dirtdirtbag for who he really was.
Idk, maybe that’s wishful thinking.
I would hope so, or at the very least go back to ye olden days of “You want a filibuster? Get your ass up there and hold the floor…”
McConnell: <awkward turtle noises>
Imagine him croaking from exhaustion because he has to actually get up there and stand for hours on end. A man can dream…
If it were anyone other than him, literally dropping dead in Congress because of the passion of your speech would be one of the most based things a politician could ever do.
But with Mitch you know he’d keel over arguing about how school kids don’t actually need food.
Tuning into CSPAN like people tune in to NASCAR races to see if anyone’s going to die.
He’s just do a mental freeze and his handlers will just forget to poke him every now and then.
If he freezes up too long, the filibuster fails. I would pop popcorn for that.
This.
I think people tend to think about doing things while they’re in control that fuck the other party, often forgetting that - at some point - power is going to flip and they’ll be the underdogs. That said, Republicans tend to abuse these procedural instruments more.
But you have the right answer: the filibuster can be useful, if it’s not easy to use and requires true dedication. Right now, it’s just a spike strip (mostly) conservatives throw down whenever they want to throw a tantrum.
It’s not enough though, we need something more, or else if the GOP ever retakes control of both houses and the presidency, it will be just as easy for them to undo the laws that get passed now.
Something more, being something like https://www.vox.com/2020/1/14/21063591/modest-proposal-to-save-american-democracy-pack-the-union-harvard-law-review
Fucking die already. Russian stooge.
DO IT!!!
Republicans are just waiting for the opportunity to do it themselves. They literally do not care. They just like the idea of the democrats doing it so they can sqwak about decorum.
