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!
“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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