https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215497175gratuitous (74,336 posts)
Could Senate Democrats abolish the cloture rules, then reinstate them if they lose in 2022?
Crazy talk, I know.
Silly DUmmie. Yeah, sure, the Rs would fall for that.
bucolic_frolic (24,651 posts)
2. Democrats need to call out Mitch's 2016 personal filibuster of Merrick Garland nomination
That stonewalling was a snuffing of rules, tradition, precedent. It worked like Mitch's own personal filibuster. So why let Repukes do it again? They've abused the system. Make them pay.
That seat wasn't "stolen," and it wasn't a "personal filibuster," or any other nefarious thing. Simply put, McConnell outplayed Obama. This is the sequence of events:
Obama won in 2008.
Top Rs went to Obama to discuss the stimulus, or healthcare, or whatever
Obama told them "Elections have consequences; I won."
The Ds shoved Obamacare down our throats, in complete defiance of the Will of the People
The Ds lost the House in 2010
The Ds lost the Senate in 2014
Obama said he didn't care because he had a pen and a phone
Scalia died
McConnell gave Obama a well-deserved lesson in "elections have consequences," and it turns out the Constitution trumps a pen and a phone
Personally, I think McConnell should have made sure that every R in the Senate was on board with blocking the nomination, then given Garland a hearing, and voted him down on a party line vote, after dragging him (and his family) through the mud for weeks on end. After all, there must have been something in his high school yearbook.
FBaggins T(21,776 posts)
3. Of course not
The minority had no leverage once minority protections are killed.
“Rules for me and not for thee” is also a lousy way to get voters to support you.
Frodo has shown some sanity lately. Wonder what's up with that?