In certain poorly written action or superhero movies, the villain will "monologue" about his or her plan to the hero who is tied up or restrained some way, so that the audience and hero know the stakes. The hero then escapes and uses that information. (I was watching Endgame again last night, and Thanos monologues.)
Looks like Mitch McConnell was monologuing about his evil plan to "scorch the earth" in the Senate. Basically, his plan will be to prevent any non-budgetary legislation to pass by filibustering it. Biden will get judges, Cabinet picks, budgets and the occasional piece of bipartisan legislation.
If...IF McConnell goes overboard, forcing Manchin and Sinema to rethink their support for the filibuster, then McConnell has laid out exactly how he will grind the Senate to a halt:
(McConnell) went to on to describe in detail how the GOP would respond if Democrats changed their position and moved to eliminate the filibuster in order to pass their agenda.
Republicans, he said, would exercise their rights to object to routine business and demand frequent quorum calls — procedural feints that would grind business to a standstill and require senators and Vice President Harris to be on constant standby for roll-call votes.
Senate rules can be voted on by the majority once the filibuster is gone. So every step he's taken to slow the Senate to a halt can simply be voted away.
McConnell has had one insight in his entire career: people blame the party in control of the government for inaction and therefore he can obstruct at will. Otherwise he's a stupid hack.
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