Democrats Already Mulling Filibuster Rule Change

[babylonsister]

https://politicalwire.com/2020/07/18/democrats-already-mulling-filibuster-rule-change/


Democrats Already Mulling Filibuster Rule Change
July 18, 2020 at 1:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard

“Democrats, increasingly hopeful they can retake the White House and Senate in November, are discussing changing Senate rules to pass legislation with a simple majority of votes,” ABC News reports.

“Known as the ‘nuclear option,’ the move to eliminate the 60-vote threshold currently needed to end debate in a full Senate would allow a Joe Biden administration – and a Democrat-led Congress – to act swiftly on key party priorities, including climate change, voting rights and gun control, with just 51 votes.”

“It’s a possibility that the former vice president, who spent 36 years in the Senate, recently signaled more interest in considering – and one that could have significant implications for governing.”

[Salviati]

1. Good.

We need to play hardball. Eliminate the filibuster, expand the supreme court, heck expand the entire judiciary.

[Midnight Writer]

2. Simply return the Senate filibuster to it's pre 1970s state.

[FreepFryer]

3. Yup. And then we use that power to eliminate voter suppression and gerrymandering...

...the voters enfranchised thereby will ensure the GOP never runs anything more important than a shit wagon again.

[Thekaspervote]

4. This!!

[JDC]

5. Time to legislate and get things fixed. No loop hole for Rs to hold us up any longer

They want bipartisanship, no problem. Offer some that is not a my way or the highway plan. Otherwise, they can sit down, STFU and watch the country get fixed yet again by Ds