McConnell warns Democrats against killing filibuster
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday issued a forceful defense of the legislative filibuster, the Senate's 60-vote threshold that Democratic lawmakers and presidential candidates have expressed a new willingness to abolish.
“The legislative filibuster is directly downstream from our founding tradition. If that tradition frustrates the whims of those on the far left, it is their half-baked proposals and not the centuries-old wisdom that need retooling,” the Kentucky Republican wrote in a New York Times op-ed.
“No Republican has any trouble imagining the laundry list of socialist policies that 51 Senate Democrats would happily inflict on Middle America in a filibuster-free Senate,” McConnell wrote. “In this country, radical changes face a high bar by design. It is telling that today’s left-wing activists would rather lower that bar than produce ideas that can meet it.”
Some 2020 Democrats have said on the campaign trail that they would be open to killing the filibuster, with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) remarking that “everything stays on the table.” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) recently echoed that sentiment when asked whether Democrats would abolish the filibuster if they reclaim the chamber in 2020.
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Without the filibuster McConnell no longer would be relevant.
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He's scared.
