townhall.com By Matt Vespa
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) seemed to have taken the 2024 loss somewhat well. The Democrats expected a total blue takeover of Washington, with Kamala Harris at the helm. Instead, it was a MAGA landslide. Republicans kept the House, reclaimed the Senate, and took back the White House—a Democrat’s true nightmare.
The soon-to-be former Senate majority leader was mushy about bipartisanship and hoped that Sen. John Thune (R-SD), the newly minted leader of Senate Republicans, would be willing to work across the aisle. The problem is that Schumer didn’t plan to be so accommodating if things had gone differently on election night.
For starters, the man was planning to nuke the legislative filibuster if Democrats retained control, which should be on the minds of every Republican senator regarding any future talks on legislation. Byron York has more, with the funny lede: “Schumer to Republicans: Please don’t do to us what we were going to do to you.’ Not that this is a shock—they tried to do this before (via Washington Examiner):
Schumer’s top priority in the new Harris administration would have been to eliminate the legislative filibuster that has long protected minority rights in the Senate. That way, even if the Senate were tied between 50 Democrats and 50 Republicans, those 50 Democrats, with the tiebreaking vote of Vice President Tim Walz, could enact far-reaching legislation without any input at all from Republicans. Washington would have true one-party rule, and the minority party would have no say in things whatsoever.
Democrats had tried to kill the filibuster in 2022, when Democrats had just 50 votes, but fell two votes short when two independent-minded Democratic senators, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, refused to go along with the party. In 2022, Democrats picked up another seat, giving them a 51-49 majority in the Senate. That put them one vote closer to killing the filibuster…
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