Originally Posted by
jllundqu
You want to see this country destroy itself? Watch what happens when the
Senate amends the rules to allow a simple 51 vote majority for basic legislation to pass instead of the customary 60.
Heads exploding would turn from a metaphor into a bloody reality...
And I hope they do it!
I hope to god McConnell changes the rules and they start SLAMMING legislation through at such a fast pace that over a hundred years of progressive statism could be brought to heel...
But what am I thinking? It is, after all, the $#@!ING GOP we are talking about.
They won't do it. THey don't have the balls. But Trump is right... the dems would (and WILL) do it first chance they get. If McConnell were smart, he would preempt the dems and lift the curtain on this internal cold war drama.
This country needs a little (more) chaos.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-0...ms-would-do-it
Republicans already invoked the "nuclear option" on the healthcare bill- it can be passed with only 51 votes. Still can't get the votes needed to pass it in the senate.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/30/u...ions.html?_r=0
The tweet
did show a certain ignorance about the current stalemate. Through complicated budget rules, congressional leaders
have already ensured that a bill to repeal and partially replace the Affordable Care Act can pass with only 51 votes — not the 60 needed to break a filibuster. The problem is that Senate Republicans, with 52 votes, so far have not been able to assemble health care legislation that can win a simple majority.
Republicans plan to use the same budget rules — known as reconciliation — to protect a tax cut measure from a filibuster as well. So what is known as “the nuclear option” — a unilateral change of Senate rules that would deprive the minority party of virtually all its legislative power — would be unnecessary.
But first, they will have to pass a budget, not an easy task.
Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, has resisted changing the rules to eliminate the legislative filibuster, and on Tuesday, his office reaffirmed his stance, while gently reminding the president of the current dynamics.
“Senator McConnell agrees that both health care and tax reform are essential,” said Antonia Ferrier, a McConnell spokeswoman, “and that is why Republicans in Congress are using the reconciliation process to prevent a partisan filibuster of these two critical legislative agenda items.”
Also beware that if the Republicans are not in power, they would also lose the ability to filibuster on bills- ceding all power to Democrats should they get control of the Senate. Would they support Clinton or Obama having that power behind their policies?
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