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Showing Original Post only (View all)Even Claire McCaskill says Schumer should exercise the nuclear option now [View all]
Last edited Mon Jan 25, 2021, 10:53 PM - Edit history (1)
EDIT: On Rachel Maddow's show it was announced that the Senate will move forward with adopting an organizing resolution. It appears Mitch may have caved, but we should also see what the organizing resolution says.Original post below
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Claire McCaskill is not my favorite Democrat. However she said something on Nicole's show today that I have been saying for days: Schumer should get Democrats to exercise the nuclear option on the Organizing Resolution:
Claire:
The practical problem is that Chuck Schumer doesn't have 50 votes to change the rules on filibuster. He doesn't have the 50 votes. And McConnell knows it. So this is going to create an impasse until --- What I think needs to happen --- This is just my two bits. I think Chuck needs to use the nuclear option to change the rules to allow the organizing motion to be privileged, and therefore it doesn't need 60 votes, like reconciliation like a few other things. Because if Mitch McConnell is not gonna allow them even to organize the Senate, then they gotta rap him on the knuckles hard. And while they may not have the votes to blow up the filibuster right now, I think they would have the votes to let the Democrats take over the chairmanships they earned. So that to me is the way forward. In my opinion, the sooner they get at it, the better.
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Even Claire McCaskill says Schumer should exercise the nuclear option now [View all]
servermsh
Jan 2021
OP
They have no choice, they must jettison the filibuster to get stuff done, or they'll lose in 2022.
SunSeeker
Jan 2021
#1
They have to bide their time for that, but Schumer needs to get the nuclear option done
BComplex
Jan 2021
#2
It's not that simple- the rule change vote is simple majority, but the motion to proceed isn't
Fiendish Thingy
Jan 2021
#12
Then how was McConnell able to ditch the filibuster without a supermajority vote? nt
SunSeeker
Jan 2021
#43
He used a parliamentary maneuver to shut down debate, but more importantly, had 51+ votes. Nt
Fiendish Thingy
Jan 2021
#53
We do not have 51 votes to kill filibuster- we don't even have 48 votes. Nt
Fiendish Thingy
Jan 2021
#55
Schumer just needs to nail down Sinema and Manchin, then we have 51 with Harris.
SunSeeker
Jan 2021
#58
Wait, I thought the 117th is 50-50, right? And Harris (?) would break vote ties?
ancianita
Jan 2021
#59
If this is the case then it's been a trap and the nuclear option is the only way out of this.
ancianita
Jan 2021
#61
Good. The timing is to overturn the Organizing Resolution. There's got to be ONE country over
ancianita
Jan 2021
#65
Moscow Mitch will obstruct as long as he is given the power to do so. He's working the press.
Hermit-The-Prog
Jan 2021
#6
I wasn't a huge fan when she was a senator... but what did I know...but on MSNBC I love her
Karadeniz
Jan 2021
#17
OMG...I didn't realize the voters of Missouri fell for him! Actually, I do. He puts up a good facade
Karadeniz
Jan 2021
#32
One of the reasons she was beaten by Hawley was that too many Dems thought she was too moderate
StarfishSaver
Jan 2021
#64
I agree, but I don't like the term "nuclear option" which makes the Dems look like the extreme ones.
themaguffin
Jan 2021
#10
Schumer is in a tough spot, it isn't him. Sinema, Manchin and maybe Feinstein
Thekaspervote
Jan 2021
#11
It's done not much for us lately. GOP got what they want. Let's not give them tools to block us.
bucolic_frolic
Jan 2021
#13
so true, I think she by nature is far more liberal than Manchin and (now gone) Heitkamp,
Celerity
Jan 2021
#28
She is absolutely right. Dems need to stop giving a damn what anybody says about them.
ancianita
Jan 2021
#15
It is now not just Manchin, Sinema is now also on record saying no, and Feinstein always was a no
Celerity
Jan 2021
#56