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It’s can’t be said enough that while McConnell wants Democrats to raise the debt limit themselves, to pay for the Republican tax cuts and the budgets approved the last few years, that he himself is using the filibuster to force them to use reconciliation and refusing to let Republicans vote on raising the debt limit.
Which is because if Democrats are forced to use reconciliation for the debt limit, they can’t use it to pass other bills. You can’t pass multiple bills a year using reconciliation. It’s McConnell’s way to tank their agenda while using the creditworthiness of the United States as the hostage.
Mitch McConnell is the best argument as to why the filibuster should be abolished. It makes sense when used by a sane, rational person who cares about the United States. That, unfortunately, doesn’t doesn’t describe Mitch McConnell.
Trump wanted to get rid of the Filibuster as well. McConnell and the Republicans controlled the Senate at the time, and McConnell said no. Democrats were relieved when it wasn’t abolished. Once you get rid of the filibuster, there is no going back.
Which is what Mitch McConnell wants – he wants the filibuster abolished and all you suckers to blame the Democrats for it, like you’ve been doing.
Mitch McConnell is the man keeping the debt limit from being raised. It would be done today but he’s filibustering it. Any plain understanding of what the debt limit is makes it clear it shouldn’t be a partisan issue.
I’d be saying the same thing if Chuck Schumer had filibustered the debt ceiling the last three times it was raised. But he didn’t. What a sucker, huh?
Quote: It’s McConnell’s way to tank their agenda while using the creditworthiness of the United States as the hostage.
“Whatever it takes to make a deal,” Joe B. Someone has to control the jackasses in the Democrat party by whatever means necessary before they finish destroying the country…and they are well on their way to doing so, thanks to the ignorance of the general populace.
So we should destroy the country to save it?
I also like the discounting of the general populace. It fits in with the Republican strategy that people who don’t vote for them aren’t “real” Americans.
While much hated, the filibuster rule served a greater purpose. A small change bit the Democrats hard following Harry Reid’s decision to make an inroad into the rule, when in the following years, the Republicans used that inroad to their advantage with judicial appointments. Ending the rule altogether will allow the super slim Democratic lead to impose its socialist agenda, but will allow a rapid, and probably worse for the country, reversal should the Republicans achieve a majority in the coming years.
The idea with the bicameral Congress, especially the Senate, was to slow change to a pace that fitted consensus of all rather than majority rule.
It is so easy in these polarized times to forget the most important things! Respect and civility are going down the tube.
Why did Democrats make such a change? Because Republicans refused to let Democrats appoint ANY judges at all. So the alternative was … appoint no judges to the bench unless they could get 60 votes? Just lay down and appoint Republican judges?
It doesn’t help that Democrats think that Republicans share a common interest in American as that hasn’t been the case for a decade. They are suckers and McConnell is playing them to his short-term gain and our long-term destruction.
What Republicans are interested in is setting up America so they can rule as a minority, plain and simple. They’ve already lost a majority of the American population. They gave up on their plans to appeal to more Americans after Mitt Romney’s loss in 2012 and instead doubled-down on their rabid base. All those not sufficiently onboard with the new Republican Party were branded as RINO’s, primaried or forced into retirement, and the replacements have a blind loyalty that most autocratic leaders around the world would appreciate.
It’s not an accident Republicans spent the last four years packing the courts with people even the American Bar Association said weren’t qualified to be judges. It’s not an accident they’re trying to change laws so that their state legislators can throw out vote results because “those people” didn’t vote the right way. It’s all about how they can run America even when a majority of the populace thinks their policies are abhorrent.
The Republican Party is a danger to democracy. They will bring about real socialism, the type you see in third world countries, with their policies. But, please, go on about the danger of the Democrats who want to make childcare affordable and for us to have roads that aren’t falling apart. That people – even those who escaped from actual socialist countries like Venezuela – think Democrats are promoting real socialism shows the power of the Republican marketing machine.
Joe B. You are correct, when you said “for us to have roads that aren’t falling apart.” That is very important. Right now there is a $1 Trillion+ Real Infrastructure Bill that has support from both Republicans and Democrats. However, the Democrats have said they will not vote on the Real Infrastructure Bill unless they get their additional $3.5 Trillion+ Bill. Welcome to politics. The Democrats are just upset because they have had a rough few weeks, and need to find someone to blame.
You need to specify “some Democrats” there. Whereas Republicans are a unified bloc (I don’t think McConnell lets his caucus use the restroom without permission), Democrats are their usual hot mess.
Quote: That people – even those who escaped from actual socialist countries like Venezuela – think Democrats are promoting real socialism shows the power of the Republican marketing machine.
So you know better than people who have actually lived under socialism, Joe B? What a genius you are; such incredible insight!
I am missing the Democratic proposals to take over companies, ala the nationalization of the oil industry in many Latin American countries. Care to point me to those, Bob?
Maybe you should just read this about the long history of Republicans calling everything Democrats want to do as “socialism”, from polio vaccines for kids to Medicare.
https://archive.thinkprogress.org/a-history-of-republicans-calling-democrats-socialists-777bcd2b7a6d/