{"id":57351,"date":"2024-11-18T14:43:18","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T19:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=57351"},"modified":"2024-11-18T14:43:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T19:43:18","slug":"what-a-difference-a-few-days-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=57351","title":{"rendered":"What A Difference A Few Days Make"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, The Washington Examiner<\/a> posted an article about the pre-election plans of Senator Chuck Schumer. Senator Schumer was looking forward to a Democrat White House, Senate and House of Representatives. Thankfully, he was overly optimistic.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Schumer\u2019s top priority in the new Harris administration would have been to eliminate the legislative filibuster that has long protected minority rights in the Senate. That way, even if the Senate were tied between 50 Democrats and 50 Republicans, those 50 Democrats, with the tiebreaking vote of Vice President Tim Walz, could enact far-reaching legislation without any input at all from Republicans. Washington would have true one-party rule, and the minority party would have no say in things whatsoever.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…Schumer believed 2024 would be the year Democrats could finally erase any Republican power in the Senate. Manchin and Sinema were both leaving the Senate, Schumer explained at his talk in Chicago. Manchin\u2019s seat would be won by a Republican, so it still would be unavailable for Democrats. But Sinema\u2019s seat would be won by Democrat Ruben Gallego, Schumer said, and Gallego would go along with the party on the filibuster. That would give Democrats the 50 votes they needed, provided there was a Vice President Walz to break the tie.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, things didn’t go exactly as planned.<\/p>\n

This is what hjappened last week:<\/p>\n

So this week, Schumer went to the well<\/span>\u00a0of the Senate and addressed some remarks<\/a> to his Republican colleagues. \u201cAnother closely contested election now comes to an end,\u201d he said. \u201cTo my Republican colleagues, I offer a word of caution in good faith: Take care not to misread the will of the people, and do not abandon the need for bipartisanship. After winning an election, the temptation may be to go to the extreme. We\u2019ve seen that happen over the decades, and it has consistently backfired on the party in power. So, instead of going to the extremes, I remind my colleagues that this body is most effective when it\u2019s bipartisan. If we want the next four years in the Senate to be as productive as the last four, the only way that will happen is through bipartisan cooperation.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The short version of that is<\/span>:\u00a0Please don\u2019t do to us what we were going to do to you. Schumer is obviously concerned that Republicans might embrace a scheme to eliminate the filibuster and pass all sorts of consequential legislation with no Democratic input at all. That wouldn\u2019t be bipartisan! Fortunately for Schumer, Republicans have been more principled than Democrats when it comes to the legislative filibuster, and to the filibuster in general. Republicans realize that even though they will have the majority for the next two years, they might be back in the minority at any time after that. So Schumer will not get it good and hard the way he planned to give it to Republicans.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is amazing how quickly Senator Schumer changed his tune. However, if the Republicans are smart, they will quickly confirm ALL of President Trump’s nominees for Cabinet positions and department heads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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