GOP senator complains push by Democrats for voting rights bill and gun reform will 'ruin' the Senate

[turbinetree]

By Tom Boggioni
Published March 28, 2021

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Appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press" with host Chuck Todd, Sen Pat Toomey (R-PA) complained about Democrats trying to push through a voters' rights bill while pondering bills to restrict the purchase of high-powered weapons, saying their moves would "ruin" the Senate.

Toomey, who is not running for re-election after butting heads with former president Donald Trump, attacked Democrats for their "shameful" attempt to take away the filibuster that could prevent those bills from being passed.


"Some of our Democratic colleagues are making a shameful attempt to ruin what remains of the functioning of the Senate and will do long-term damage to the country," Toomey asserted while discussing the filibuster. "You know, years ago Democrats universally supported keeping the filibuster. Barack Obama was in favor of keeping the filibuster. Now, when a different party is in control, suddenly it's become a racist tool? How ridiculous."

https://www.rawstory.com/filibuster-2651237163/

And just think for the next two years the public is going to get this Sunday Morning shit to help enable this fascists' party.........to try and keep them in power .................it got to be ad dollars to prop up a farce, just like facebook and that disinformation machine........its about voting, people have died so that I and you can vote Toomey ..... ....gaslighting POS ..

[ananda]

1. Wow. I think the GOP has already ruined the Senate...

and just about everything else in this country that Dems
will have to fix.

[gratuitous]

2. "A shameful attempt to ruin what remains of the functioning of the Senate"

Do you even fucking listen to yourself, Sen. Toomey? You sat idly by while your Great Leader torpedoed the Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garland, eagerly aided and abetted the elevation of Amy Coney Barrett, and now you have the nerve to complain about your Democratic colleagues? Bite me.

Oh, and Pennsylvania? When are you going to retire this asshole?

[turbinetree]

4. I was going to put that in my rant, but you would think Toad would have asked that question

just remind the asshole what he actually did to the senate.........but nope he will bring him back to further the gaslighting on another segment and possibly with another of these supporting fascists' wannabe's ............

[malaise]

3. Accprdomg to MoscowMitch, then Majority Leader, the Senate's job

was to make Obama a one term president. Even that failed.
Then he blocked an Obama Supreme Court nominee's hearing using time as an excuse before of course doing the opposite for his pick.
ReTHUGs have already fucked up the Senate.

That is all

[dsc]

5. I hope there was some push back at least at the idea that when Obama

was in favor of keeping the filibuster, the GOP was in charge of it, because that is a flat out bullshit lie. Dems controlled the Senate from 2007 until 2015. That includes 6 of Obama's 8 years.

[maxsolomon]

6. The Senate is a relic. It hasn't functioned in decades.

To be a GOP Senator is to be a Sociopath.

[crickets]

7. Breathtaking hypocrisy and shameless projection. Same old, same old. nt