Good day all. Now that the Republicans have control of the Senate, UpChuck Schumer is changing his usual tune and pleading that the incoming Republicans please, please do the bipartisan thing and confer with the Democrats.
Currently, there is one race that hasn’t been decided and that is in Pennsylvania for standard Democrat reasons. They didn’t have enough ballots prepared to steal the election outright and are now trying to do it on the recount. Even if they do manage to steal the election, the GOP will still control the Senate. Now Schumer is begging the Republicans to not do to him and the democrats what he did and tried to do to them. Here are the details from Fox News:
With Republicans sweeping to a red trifecta in last week’s elections, stunningly capturing the White House and majorities in the House and Senate, Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is cutting a different tone, compared to his pre-election hype where he posited a Democrat win in the Senate and then potentially getting rid of the filibuster, among other radical proposals.
Schumer is one of the worst, most corrupt Democrats in probably a century. He has the same contempt for bipartisanship as Josef Stalin. His goal was nothing less then turning the entire United States into a single party nation and tearing up the Constitution. He almost pulled it off.
Ending the filibuster rule – which requires 60 votes to pass bills – would have made it easier for Democrats to supercharge their agenda and essentially railroad any Republican opposition.
Schumer and the Democrats tried to kill the filibuster in 2022 when they had 50 votes – the vice president could have broken the tie – but Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema refused to toe the Democratic party line. They eventually became Independents.
Both Manchin and Sinema are closing out their terms of office. Both decided to retire, in Manchin’s case, it was due to ill health. His constituents were sick of him. I think that for Sinema, it was more that she was sick of Washington and the utter corruption of people like Schumer and McConnell.
With Manchin and Sinema leaving the Senate, Schumer was confident of having at least 50 Senate seats after this year’s election with a then-potential Vice President Walz breaking the tie on a filibuster vote.
That didn’t work out so well now, did it UpChuck?
“We got it up to 48, but, of course, Sinema and Manchin voted no; that’s why we couldn’t change the rules. Well, they’re both gone,” Schumer told reporters on the Tuesday during the week of the Democratic convention, according to NBC News.
“Ruben Gallego is for it, and we have 51. So, even losing Manchin, we still have 50.”
I’m not sure of the status of the Kari Lake/Ruben Gallego race. This is Arizona and I understand that there have been the usual “Irregularities” with the vote tallies. Obviously, UpChuck wasn’t considering that Tester in Montana would lose and that Bob Casey in Pennsylvania is also out unless the Democrats are successful in stealing the recount. Then there is the small detail of President Trump’s landslide victory and that Vice President Vance will be the one to break any ties.
The result would have essentially meant one-party rule in the Senate, with Schumer also toying with expanding voting rights nationwide by passing the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.
Those Acts, if they had actually been made law, would have ended any attempts by the states to secure the ballots and make sure that the Democrats could steal elections without any worry that they could be stopped. This was typical of the Democrats short term thinking and their complete lack of understanding the mood of the country. I suspect the 312 electoral blows to his head might have given him some clues.
Schumer, if they had taken control of both the House and Senate and ended the filibuster was also going to try and codify Abortion into Federal Law and legislatively overturned the overturning of Roe vs Wade. This would have been just the start of the Democrat’s tyrannical plans.
Schumer also posited reforming the Supreme Court by slapping 18-year term limits on justices and touted reversing the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling, which determined that presidents are immune from prosecution for some “official acts.”
Again with the short term thinking. The ruling regarding presidential immunity would have also affected Joe Biden, who is guilty of a whole host of crimes, (Just not mentally fit to stand trial), and Barack Obama who could have been charged with first degree murder. As for the term limits on the court? That would require a constitutional amendment, not that UpChuck ever gave a damn about the Constitution.
He has previously announced his intention to move legislation that would expand the Supreme Court from nine to 13 members.
Packing the court would have been a disaster. The goal would have been to put a sufficient number of hard left justices on the bench who would then, basically, tear up the entire constitution. The first thing to go would have been the 2nd Amendment followed by the order confiscate all privately held firearms. That would have triggered the one thing we want to avoid, the Second American Civil War. However, thanks to the voters of this great nation, who have just experience 4 years of Democrat rule, Schumer’s plans went right down the drain.
But this week, he went to the floor of the Senate to tell Republicans to essentially go easy on their legislative colleagues on the other side of the aisle, since Republicans will have a 53-to-47 majority.
And now that the Republicans are the ones calling the shots, Schumer is all “Hey, can we all just get along now? No hard feelings?”
Schumer’s about face wasn’t lost on Byron York, chief political correspondent for the Washington Examiner and a Fox News contributor.
“The short version of that is: Please don’t do to us what we were going to do to you,” York writes in the Washington Examiner.
“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’t be bipartisan!”
Schumer is lucky. The Republicans, unlike the Democrats, have principles and believe in protecting the minority’s rights and privileges, since they’ve been the Minority party in the recent past. Unlike the Democrats, the Republicans understand that what goes around, comes around.
York writes that Schumer’s “brand of hypocrisy is particularly egregious” since he was advocating changing Senate rules on a partisan basis to eliminate the minority party’s ability to demand a higher standard of approval for controversial legislation, as opposed to advocating to get a particular bill across the line.
Schumer is a two-faced bastard and always has been. He also, like pretty much all Progressive Liberal Democrats, projects what he would do on the opposition party. He can’t conceive that the Republicans aren’t like the Democrats. (Some are, most aren’t)I fully agree with the Republicans that ending the Filibuster is a bad idea, and for several reasons.
First, of course, is that one day, they will be in the minority again and if they don’t have a way to slow or stop the Democrats tendency towards totalitarian government and slavery, then they will proceed with just that. The other thing is political.
If the Republicans start trying to pass things that are very popular out in the country, even in current Democrat strongholds, it will provide ammunition for the 2026 midterms. You can bet the RNC will use the Democrats blocking of things that could fix the economy, secure the borders, remove the millions of illegal aliens and basically make life much better for everyone, against them and in a big way.
Schumer is to stupid and partisan to see this of course. For him it’s all about absolute power for him and the Democrat elite. If things had gone the other way, the filibuster would have been killed the first week, and all the other damage he planned pushed through within a couple of months. With a bit of luck, Schumer will be voted out of office when he’s up for reelection.
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