Schumer Threatens to Nuke Filibuster If
GOP Stands Ground on Voting Bill
National Review,
by
Caroline Downey
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
1/3/2022 6:02:28 PM
Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer announced Monday that the chamber would debate eliminating the filibuster in the coming weeks if Republicans refuse to join Democrats in passing sweeping voting legislation.
While the filibuster was designed to empower the minority party in the Senate, Schumer argued that it now serves to “embarrass the will of the majority,” against the founders’ intentions for legislative procedure. He claimed that Republicans should not be allowed to block the Freedom to Vote Act, using the vehicle of the filibuster, that only further enshrines and expands the American right to vote.
You can't even get that done without buy in from members in your own party. You don't have the votes. A full nuclear option takes 67 votes, by the way - not 50. You can't even get 60 on most things now.
You can try for a carve out for this voting 'rights' crap, but its not likely you are going to get to 50 even there. If you do manage to pass the John Lewis Citizen Voter Suppression Act, it will get slammed down as unconstitutional in the courts anyway.
Why don't you just pass legislation that outlaws independent thought, individualism, and patriotism and get it over with?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
columba 1/3/2022 6:13:10 PM (No. 1027248)
The voter law that this article mentions is not a help. I simply takes federal voting completely away from the states (if they even count votes any more).
Some 30 years ago, a bipartisan group run by Jimmy Carter recommended Voter ID at the polls and strict ways of validating absentee voting.
This new so-called law is a sham.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 1/3/2022 6:16:14 PM (No. 1027249)
Don't give 'em any ideas, #1. They won't hesitate to outlaw thinking and patriotism, or, barring that, getting their judges to claim it's already illegal.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 1/3/2022 6:17:01 PM (No. 1027250)
I want to reply to #1's points with my take on them. Theis NOT an attack on #1. I repect #1's views immensely.
#1 Who really think Schuumer intends to play be the rules to pass this?
#2 No one in their right mind really relies on the courts to do the right thing.
#3 Outlawing independent thought, individualism, and patriotism is exactly what they intend to do.
#4 This is the biggest point. I dearly hope "Come and Take it" is right, and I am wrong!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Birddog 1/3/2022 6:38:18 PM (No. 1027271)
Yo Chuckie...YOU only have 48 Dems in the senate. Repubs have 50 members.
Your entire platform and party is pandering to the "Socialist" members there...clearly NOT a Majority, not in the senate, not in the house...not ANYWHERE..
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He makes it sound like there are 59 democrat senators, and 41 Republicans were holding up legislation.
Chuck only serves as Majority leader based on VP Harris breaking the 50-50 tie.
The House has 5 seat majority, again, hardly "the will of the people" clamoring for massive changes, and ability of the Feds removing any need for smaller states to participate in elections any longer.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Ruhn 1/3/2022 6:54:55 PM (No. 1027283)
Flop sweat desperation. All indicators are of a dem bloodbath in November. Grasping at straws to stave off the slaughter and maintain permanent power.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 1/3/2022 6:56:46 PM (No. 1027286)
Go ahead and ignite a freakin riot you son of a beyatch. We will not stand for this country to be completely and fundamentally transformed into a dictatorship run by communistic democrats, that are possessed and under the control of Satan, and his evil demonic forces.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
formerNYer 1/3/2022 6:58:21 PM (No. 1027287)
Blow hard go ahead and watch how many more seats you lose in Nov.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Californian 1/3/2022 7:04:22 PM (No. 1027291)
He meant to say, "that only further enshrines vote fraud in our system at a national level enacting changes that no other free country would ever find acceptable nor do those fraud boosting changes adhere to the UN standards they require of third world banana republics to qualify for internationally acceptable elections".
He was obviously misquoted.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
dman 1/3/2022 7:16:38 PM (No. 1027299)
Be careful what you ask for, Chuck (aka Senator Satan).
The Devil always overplays his hand. Trust that God is still in charge and ready to make His move.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Omen55 1/3/2022 7:17:38 PM (No. 1027300)
If Chucky thinks Manchin & Sinema won't embarrass him by voting no then go for it.
Unlike him they remember what Harry did & what happen when GOP took back the Senate.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
BarryNo 1/3/2022 7:19:17 PM (No. 1027301)
Shumer wants to see a real insurrection so he can compare it with the one he made up out of whole-cloth. I'm willing...
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Geoman 1/3/2022 7:30:40 PM (No. 1027308)
Let them nuke it if they can because it won't be long until the dems lose both houses of Congress, so they won't be able to use the filibuster against the Republican majority. Whatever they pass can be repealed but under no circumstances short of losing a civil war, should their voting theft rights bill be passed. IMHO, their voting caper would require a Constitutional amendment, which would require 34 states to propose the amendment and 38 states to pass it.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Right Time 1/3/2022 7:56:44 PM (No. 1027320)
Changes to the voting laws require Constitutional Amendments, Schmuckie.
Do ya got 2/3 votes in both Houses?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Nimby 1/3/2022 7:57:05 PM (No. 1027321)
Your liberal predecessor did precisely that Chuckles!! And remember how that turned out?? 2022 election will be a blood bath for the D’s
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Socio 1/3/2022 8:05:53 PM (No. 1027324)
Sounds like that are getting desperate to get their "Freedom to Vote Act" aka License to Steal Elections Act passed so they can put it into play before November.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
ronniethek 1/3/2022 8:48:23 PM (No. 1027345)
HE HAS NO MAJORITY. The non-majority will be much smaller this time next year.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Cat Ballou 1/3/2022 9:15:33 PM (No. 1027361)
"serves to “embarrass the will of the majority,”
Just because you haven't been able to brow beat members of Congress to vote your way, Chuckie doesn't mean you are representing the majority, which happens to be the American people. You are not representing the people and we do not need voting legislature, we need the voting rules that have stood us well since the beginning of this nation, to be enforced. We're tired of dead people and illegals not to mention people voting more than once and voting manipulation of machines deciding who gets the brass ring of politics.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
janjan 1/3/2022 9:17:07 PM (No. 1027362)
Political grandstanding. Schumer doesn’t have the votes for this and he knows it. It is highly doubtful, going into the midterms when he will likely lose his position, that he really wants this. He’s not stupid. The payback would be severe. He is throwing this out to the whining base because there are no other cards to play.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
scottj 1/3/2022 9:45:47 PM (No. 1027368)
It's amazing how stupid Democrats are. Do they NEVER learn? Apparently not.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
stablemoney 1/3/2022 10:03:15 PM (No. 1027374)
McConnell will suspend the rules of the Senate, so Schumer can get what he wants, and a vote will not be necessary.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
DVC 1/3/2022 10:57:24 PM (No. 1027418)
Go to Hades, UpChuck.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Trigger2 1/4/2022 4:29:41 AM (No. 1027504)
Give it your best shot Chuckie. When the republicans take over, you'll rue the day you did that.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 1/4/2022 7:16:28 AM (No. 1027562)
Unfortunately I’m sure some republicans are getting ready to raise the white flag. They’ve never met a retreat they weren’t happy to get in front of.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
hershey 1/4/2022 7:24:24 AM (No. 1027569)
Schumer needs to get nuked...all they want to do is make it possible to steal ALL the elections for the dumbocraps..
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
mifla 1/4/2022 8:49:04 AM (No. 1027646)
Chuck keeps forgetting about the Reid Rule.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
tootall 1/4/2022 12:03:22 PM (No. 1027885)
Great comments! one nit from me.
Sen Schumer should have included the full quote from the late Sen Byrd. If there is a Christian God, he is receiving his just treatment. If you follow the Vedic tradition, it would be interesting to see what his current Incarnation is! Dharma and Kharma!
I realize it was on a slightly different subject, but certainly reveals who Schumer and the Democrat Party was and really still is. To paraphrase what was omitted from Sen Byrd's quote .... 'Rally tonight! Don't y'all be late now! We'll light things up right after sundown! Make sure all y'all properly launder your hoods and apparel for your horses. We should probably make up some new rules about that'
I've had enough!
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