Posted on 01/12/2022 2:29:47 AM PST by Libloather
While Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is warning Democrats might try to change the filibuster rules to advance voting rights legislation, a video from over a decade ago shows the New York senator warning against eliminating the procedural hurdle.
On Monday, the Nathan Brand, the Republican National Committee’s deputy communications director, 2005 video surfaced of Schumer warning against eliminating the legislative filibuster, which requires 60 votes to overcome and advance legislation.
“The ideologues in the Senate want to turn what the Founding Fathers called the ‘cooling saucer of democracy’ into the rubber-stamp of dictatorship. We will not let them,” Schumer said.
He continued, “They want, because they can’t get their way on every judge, to change the rules in mid-stream. To wash away 200 years of history. They want to make this country into a banana republic where if you don’t get your way, you change rules…It will be a doomsday for democracy.”
**SNIP**
He noted that the Senate was “designed to protect the political rights of the minority in the chamber.” However, he claimed, “Over the years, those rights have been warped and contorted to obstruct and embarrass the will of majority – something our Founders explicitly opposed.”
“We must ask ourselves: if the right to vote is the cornerstone of our democracy, then how can we in good conscience allow for a situation in which the Republican Party can debate and pass voter suppression laws at the State level with only a simple majority vote, but not allow the United States Senate to do the same?” he insisted.
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Desperation requires desperate measures.../s
And he was right. And that’s the point.
If the Republicans retake the Senate, the first order of business should be to put the abolishment of the filibuster up for vote. I would wager the interest on the national debt that the Dems would scream to high heaven how this would destroy democracy.
Chuckles can not see the difference between Federal intrusion into States Rights and States governing themselves?
The Senate must have a more robust voting requirement in order to stop the Federal oppression that he himself is advocating.
His documented reversal of stance on this issue is all the proof a normal, sane American Citizen needs to realize Chuck is a worthless lying bag of s***.
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Democracy is the last thing the democrats want it’s why the are dismantling it so fast total control is the goal.
Media approved
The outright blatant flagrant lying is not at all focused on by the leftist media. Confirming their activist for the dems.
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