Monday, January 25, 2021

End the senate legislative filibuster (#4377)

      The truth of it is that the republican party is not going to unite to help America. They are already showing it by not agreeing to an organizing resolution to give democrats their hard earned senate chairmanships. When the simplest of actions required in the senate by republicans to perform is being halted by themselves, the idea that they would help us democrats give our nation the tools to recover from the virus and our failing economy is a fool's errand. Giving the republican party rope in which to hang itself seems to be working but it also gums up the progress we could be making had we just accepted initially that they were never going to be faithful partners in legislation.
     Bernie Sanders is already telling the world that he is ready to use the Budget Reconciliation Act to pass Joe Biden's "American Rescue Plan", https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/01/22/fact-sheet-president-bidens-new-executive-actions-deliver-economic-relief-for-american-families-and-businesses-amid-the-covid-19-crises/. The republican party used the same Budget Reconciliation Act to pass their massive tax cut for the wealthy and was used for the unsuccessful attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act. So republicans crying about the imminent usage of the same act to pass much needed relief to the working middle poor class rings hollow and hypocritical. The new minority leader mcconnell has forced this option upon us and for that I am grateful for his arrogant strategy.
     What mcconnell has done, through his obstructing a senate organizing plan, is unite our democratic party to the point where even our much more moderate members see the need to now end the legislative filibuster. The republican party is going down in flames and they are the ones who lit the fuse and refuse to put out the fire. What I can say about that is woohoo! The crackling of their embers as they disappear as just a wisp of vile smoke is pure pleasure to behold. My whole life has been about ending the republican party because they have always been the greatest threat to truth and facts in keeping our mighty nation from fulfilling it's manifest destiny of bringing the world to a principled democracy!

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