Mitch lets the
cat out of the bag:
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Tuesday starkly warned Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) not to eliminate the filibuster on presidential nominations, threatening to end the 60-vote threshold for everything, including bills, if he becomes the majority leader.
“There not a doubt in my mind that if the majority breaks the rules of the Senate to change the rules of the Senate with regard to nominations, the next majority will do it for everything,” McConnell said on the floor.
Now does anyone really believe that McConnell won't do that anyway? Especially if he gets a Republican president?
Senate Democrats need to get this through their thick skulls: Republicans don't give a shit about "Senate comity." They've proven that time and time again. Nor do they give a shit about Senate traditions or the proverbial "one day it might be us" crap that Democrats box themselves in with. They will abuse the filibuster now and get rid of it completely when they get the majority. It doesn't matter at all what Democrats do. Republicans are going to be Republicans.
So let's just end this ridiculous farce now and just get rid of the whole goddamn thing and restore majority rule as the Founders wrote into the Constitution. McConnell and the GOP certainly have the guts to do it. The question is, do the Dems?
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