Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday warned Democrats that ending the filibuster would bring President Joe Biden’s agenda to a standstill and lead to retribution in years to come.
The filibuster gives the minority a voice and keeps the majority from ramming through any legislation they want.
Top Democrats, including the two highest-ranking party members in the Senate, have pushed for an end to the longstanding procedure.
The filibuster has long been seen as a mechanism requiring bipartisan consensus that distinguishes the Senate from the House of Representatives, where only a simple majority is needed on legislation.
With the current Senate split 50-50, Democrats want to get rid of the filibuster to pass their radical left agenda.
“This chaos would not open up an express lane to liberal change. It would not open up an express lane for the Biden presidency to speed into the history books. The Senate would be more like a 100-car pileup. Nothing moving,” McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, said on the Senate floor.
“Nobody serving in this chamber can even begin … to imagine what a completely scorched-earth Senate would look like,” he added, saying Republicans would require votes on all parliamentary moves, drastically slowing the pace of business.
Two moderate Democrats – Senator Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin – have opposed doing away with the filibuster, though Manchin has suggested he would possibly relent on it.
McConnell said those lawmakers were now under pressure from their colleagues to reverse course.
But Manchin reaffirmed his position to reporters in comments that could allay the Republican’s concerns. “The bottom line is, you can’t get rid of the filibuster,” the West Virginia Democrat said.
McConnell also warned that Democrats would face a starkly conservative agenda on labor, energy, abortion rights, border security, and gun ownership in 2022 if Republicans took back the majority with the filibuster no longer in place.
“We wouldn’t just erase every liberal change that hurt the country. We’d strengthen America with all kinds of conservative policies with zero – zero – input from the other side,” he said.
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Get rid of the filibuster. I’d like the nation to see the fruits of Mitch’s corruption. Make Mitch’s corrupt and cowardly RINO gang earn their money for a change, by fighting day by day to block senate actions, which I doubt they could or would do, because they lack basic integrity.
The bumbling corrupt fool Mitch would be in a position of leadership in no decent group of people. Just in the past few months he participated in the election coup, said Trump caused an insurrection, gave 2 Georgia senate races to the dems by endorsing fraud and supporting liberals, blocked the stimulus which could have assisted Trump in the election. Mitch is a disgrace to himself, the party, the nation, and the law. I support no party which retains such a misfit in a position of leadership. I support teams that want to win and do the right thing, the republican party are not those things.
Democrats have to toss out the Filibuster. The are done without getting all their agenda passed before the 2022 elections. We are now in a fight for the soul of America; stay a freedom loving Capitalist Nation or allow Democrats to impose Communism upon us. I never thought I would see the day when America would ever consider Communism. This is what happens when you allow a National Government control the education system.
The biggest reason the dems can hold the senate in 2022 is China Mitch, the party base permanently and justifiably hates the man, a major and deliberate enabler of the democrats. Mitch goes NOW or the party fails.
This just in from Nancy P-LMFAO! That horse left the barn Mitch so get your last round of taxpayer feeding trough gorging and one more pot of gold before heading to the horse ranch for the golden years with CCP wifey.
You’ve been outplayed by the burn it all down brigades and they play for keeps.