Late last year, the U.S. Senate Democrat minority launched a quixotic 40-plus-day shutdown, showing their true colors of America Last and power for progressive communists first. They were willing to sacrifice all the business of the country just to stop the enforcement of our nation’s immigration laws. The calls in response to these retaliatory efforts were loud and swift, demanding that the U.S. Senate GOP majority kill the filibuster for everything and just run all the good legislation through to President Trump’s desk.
At that time, I shared grave trepidations about nuking the filibuster. Do we want to open up a can of worms that will never let them squiggle back? Is this country prepared for an aggressive expansion of little-d democracy, with all its mob-like implications? Former senator Kyrsten Sinema explained her resistance to ending the filibuster with one simple quip: “As soon as we go out of power, the Republicans can undo everything we put in place with a simple majority.”
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