Posted on 03/21/2019 5:23:19 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
Add Beto O’Rourke to a growing list of Democratic presidential candidates who are considering scrapping long-standing Senate procedure in hopes of passing a sweeping progressive agenda should they make it to the White House.
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Empty threat given the Senate is not changing hands for the foreseeable future.
I still think if the Republicans don’t rein in illegal aliens voting, voter harvesting and states giving their electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote the Dems may win House, Senate and Presidency.
“....states giving their electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote ….”
Article 1 Section 10
No state without th consent of Congress .. enter into any agreement or compact with another state.....
That doesn’t even address the voter disenfranchisement issue of having you vote canceled out by the actions of other voters outside your state. Example your state chose candidate A, Candidate B wins the popular vote, your states electoral votes now got to B.
It will get shot down when the time comes.
It's often forgotten, there was a filibuster rule in the House before the Senate. Stupid rule, the House got rid of it. Senate adopted one. It was valuable in the runup to the Civil War and far beyond. In our, at least my, lifetime most valuable in fighting civil rights legislation. Valuable to the dems, led by folks like Byrd and Gore. Don't want no stinken civil rights legislation. Boy, was that forgotten in a hurry. Senator McConnell, let the rule begone. Forget about the Byrds, Kennedys and McCains entranced by the nonsensical history of an ancient rule. Not a law. Or Constitutional provision. And yes, I've a political motication in noting used most effectively in opresing minorities in the US. Particularly a certain racial minority who should sue the DNC for reparations.
Truer words were never ROFLOLed at! :-D
GOPe Handbook of Negotiation:
“You can have everything you want,
but that’s our final offer.”
But then we wouldn’t have the “choice” of Globalist party D, or globalist party R!
Using cloture to implement a minority veto is abuse of the process, and illustrates that the deliberative body is dysfunctional.
How about Mitch do away with it now? I’d be ok with that and you’d hear the RAT’s howl in protest....
I’m all for the turtle triggering the nuclear option. There is zero doubt the left will when they regain control, and they will go far beyond this!
Coming soon: The death of the filibuster
Senate Republicans are set to trigger the ‘nuclear option’ once again, the latest sign that the 60-vote threshold is going out of style.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/03/senate-republicans-filibuster-1250082
secretly Democrats look toward 2022 and 2024 for retaking Senate.
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