lol, no. Get rid of the only way dems have to pass bills? Get rid of filibuster 1st, then we can talk reconciliation
Time to bust the filibuster
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They cant pass many bills though.With no reconciliation republicans will support getting rid of filibuster 1st as it would stop their tax cuts which is always their #1 priority.
so go from passing few bills to passing zero bills? the republicans will support ridding the filibuster as compromise for reconciliation? C'mon now Tony.
Now that the covid bill has passed their will be no major bills passed anyway.Admittedly the timing now is off as republicans cant pass any tax cuts now.
Biden's tax increase sure as hell won't pass through the Senate. It has better odds through reconciliation.
As stated the timing right now is off but the overall point is republicans will be in favor of ending the filibuster if they cant pass tax cuts.Its a scam they have run for decades allowing their main bills to pass while being able to block democrat bills.
Right. The filibuster essentially gives each individual senator the veto power reserved strictly for the president. It makes senators extremely powerful and thus increases their ability to attract large donations and make powerful connections.
The minority party always argues for the filibuster because only in America can a party who has lost its political power still have the right to bring government to a halt and stop legislation.
We can all understand why senators might favor the "cloakroom filibuster". They get the special interest money without direct exposure of their dastardly deed to the public. I laughed today when I heard of Mitch McConnell's "scorched Earth threat" that he will proceed with if the Senate eliminates the cloakroom filibuster. It's a hollow threat, unless the Democrats become willing enablers. I guess what we are about to discover is the relative level of corruption between the two parties. It is clear that the Republican Party has become hopelessly corrupt, but has the Democratic Party as well? It doesn't seem so. But perhaps we will soon find out. (Just having the "cloakroom filibuster" exposed to sunshine has been refreshing, as who besides U.S. Senators could imagine such a diabolical thing.)
https://www.axios.com/biden-filibuster-agenda-history-05be3812-6ee0-414b-ae71-b6dfa37d8df4.htmlBiden's New Deal: Re-engineering America, quickly
President Biden recently held an undisclosed East Room session with historians that included discussion of how big is too big — and how fast is too fast — to jam through once-in-a-lifetime historic changes to America.
Why it matters ... The historians’ views were very much in sync with his own: It is time to go even bigger and faster than anyone expected. If that means chucking the filibuster and bipartisanship, so be it.
Four things are pushing Biden to jam through what could amount to a $5 trillion-plus overhaul of America, and vast changes to voting, immigration and inequality.
- He has full party control of Congress, and a short window to go big.
- He has party activists egging him on.
- He has strong gathering economic winds at his back.
- And he’s popular in polls.
- Beschloss said the parallels include the New Deal economic relief that Franklin Roosevelt brought in 1933, which saved the country from the Depression and chaos.
- And Biden is on track to leave the country in a different place, as Lyndon Johnson did with his Great Society programs.
- He loves the growing narrative that he’s bolder and bigger-thinking than President Obama.
- This temptation to go even bigger, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell insists, will create such a fissure between the parties that he compared it this week to "nuclear winter."
- He won't rub their noses in it, we're told. That'll be the Biden touch to rolling the opposition — and getting that much closer to the status of latter-day FDR.
- Biden's list includes: rural broadband expansion, which would be transformative for those communities ... make child tax credit permanent ... landmark legislation on climate, guns, voting.