The_Doctor
SilentCal1924
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« on: April 29, 2017, 06:12:28 PM » |
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The Senate GOP might do it but the Democrats would find single payer easier to ram through with 51 votes. That's why the GOP doesn't want to erode the filibuster for the Senate because they know the Democrats will rule Congress again one day and when they do the filibuster may the only fig leaf protecting the GOP.
Additionally the filibuster also protects McConnell from the far right whom he has long detested. A 51 seat threshold means the crazies get more power and Mitch McConnell would be forced to go along. Even if they abolished it now the radicalism of the Republican base would threaten the Senate Majority by 2020-2022.
They could do it. But I'm skeptical how far McC wants to go.
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