Kurt Schlichter: Democrats, Please Throw Us in the Filibuster Briar Patch

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Democrats, Please Throw Us in the Filibuster Briar Patch
Kurt Schlichter

Posted: Jan 06, 2022 12:01 AM

Chuck Schumer, the Inspector Clouseau of Senate Majority Leaders in comparison to Mitch McConnell’s Sherlock Holmes, has decided to try to strong-arm Joe Manchin and Kristin Sinema into dropping their opposition to killing the filibuster by making a big public show of it. Hey, that’s plan has worked great so far. I sure hope he succeeds – for once – for three reasons.

Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett.

As so often happens with the Dems, Napoleon’s injunction to never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake comes to mind. So does Br'er Rabbit’s plea to Br'er Fox not to toss him into the briar patch.

Please please please lift the filibuster, Chuck. It totally will not come back and bite you on your Swalwell valve like it did Harry Reid after he did it for circuit court judges. No, your initiative to give the incoming GOP majority and incoming GOP president unlimited power is a smart plan that will cement your reputation as a strategic genius. And don’t worry, this cheesy expedient cannot possibly boomerang.

We totally do not want us conservatives to have the unfettered power to enact our whole agenda.

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https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2022/01/06/democrats-please-throw-us-in-the-filibuster-briar-patch-n2601414

[Kamaji]

That's a nice idea, but it presupposes that the republicans would actually use this "unfettered power" to enact even a significant portion of our agenda, let alone the whole thing.

I no longer believe that would happen; there are too many who seem to see a seat in Congress as a go-along-get-along sinecure that they should not put at risk by actually conducting themselves as if they possessed a political backbone.

If, as is more likely the case, the republicans would not do as the OP suggests, getting rid of the filibuster is simply handing Schumer et al the matches necessary to complete their version of the Reichstag Fire.