Trump: Republicans 'look like fools' if they don't kill Senate filibuster

[TomCADem]

Source: The Hill

Responding to Senate Republicans' healthcare collapse this week, President Trump said Saturday that Republicans "look like fools" and the Democrats are "laughing" at them if they don't change the legislative process.

He urged Senate Republicans to abolish the legislative filibuster in a series of early-morning tweets, claiming “200 bills” sit in the Senate waiting for action.

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“Republican Senate must get rid of 60 vote NOW! It is killing the R Party, allows 8 Dems to control country. 200 Bills sit in Senate. A JOKE!” Trump tweeted. “The very outdated filibuster rule must go. Budget reconciliation is killing R's in Senate. Mitch M, go to 51 Votes NOW and WIN. IT'S TIME!”

“Republicans in the Senate will NEVER win if they don't go to a 51 vote majority NOW. They look like fools and are just wasting time,” he continued. “8 Dems totally control the U.S. Senate. Many great Republican bills will never pass, like Kate's Law and complete Healthcare. Get smart!"

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/344444-trump-republicans-look-like-fools-if-they-dont-kill-senate-filibuster

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How long before Ted Cruz once again sucks up to Trump and takes up his cause?

[truthisfreedom]

1. I don't see the problem. You look like what you are.

[Cryptoad]

16. amen,,,,

Im glad he is not any smarter than he is,,,
if he had any sense he really would be dangerous!

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. If they do away with the 60 vote rule, we are then

wait, I was gonna say our democracy would be done, but I said that when McConnell blocked the vast majority of the American public's will when we said we wanted Merrick Garland on the SC

I said that when the KGB hacked our election and stole it

I said that when the so called president kept all interest in his businesses and ran them in the oval office

I said that when it became clear the so called president and most around him were guilty of treason

So never mind, nothing to see here.

[Kleveland]

3. They will look like fools if they do not remove him from office!

But hopefully after Pence is removed!

[safeinOhio]

4. If they lose the Senate

they will be calling for a return to "historic" rules again.

[Zambero]

5. Funny that no one on the right advocated this when Obama was President

And neither did he for that matter. Trump wants to be king and not president. Easy. Just keep tweeting away and it'll happen. Suspend the Constitution and any governing rules in the Congress. Simplify matters by trashing the rule of law and then govern by decree. Any raving lunatic with a 36% approval rating could figure this one out!

(please note the included sarcasm)

[global1]

6. It's To Risky To Change The Rules....

Given all that's happened in the last 6 months - and what looks like Trump being at war with the Repugs - they know that 2018 is looming over them and they see a good chance that both the Senate and the House will go Dem. So I don't see McConnell wanting to make that move to please Trump. McConnell knows the precarious position that Trump has place the Repug Party in.

200 bills sit in Senate? Is that like the 300 motorcycle cops that led a Trump motorcade through Chicago? Or is this another Trump exaggeration? Lie?

[roamer65]

7. If they nuke the filibuster, I think Collins and Murkowski will leave the GOP.

They have the base to do it.

Senator Collins especially has the full power to cross the aisle and actually would get a surge in support for doing so.

[Backwoodsrider]

8. who thinks we are even going to have fair elections in 2018 or 2020 especiallly if we go to 51%?

People are assuming Trump and his few diehard freaks in the GOP are going to let us have fair elections in 2018. Really? lol

[NastyRiffraff]

9. Trump's next step

is to try to disband Congress. I know that sounds crazy and conspiracy theory-ish, but look who we're talking about. The Republican Congress made him mad and we can't have that.

On the plus side, only that would hopefully cause Republicans in Congress to finally rebel. I say "hopefully" because nothing is sure with this bunch. They're so used to being sheep that possibly they won't even move to protect themselves.

[C Moon]

10. That would make them look like Trump, then.

[Solly Mack]

11. They already look like fools.

They nominated Trump. They enabled Trump.

They have defended Trump repeatedly.

They are fools.

[fierywoman]

12. By this tweet he is "projecting"...

That he knows we are laughing at him and think he's ridiculous.

[Chemisse]

14. Exactly.

And he is displaying the kind of thought process that drives HIM. It's Trump that is terrified of being laughed at.

[fierywoman]

17. Yup.

[keithbvadu2]

13. Haven't both parties had the opportunity to do away with the filibuster and rejected doing so?

Haven't both parties had the opportunity to do away with the filibuster and rejected doing so?

They recognize its usefulness as well as its inconvenience.

[groundloop]

15. Just Conjecture, but I believe the filibuster is convenient cover for a lot of repukes

Feel free to disagree with me here.... I'm of the opinion that at least a few of the somewhat sensible repukes are thankful for still having the filibuster in play so that they won't have to actually vote on some of the crazy shit that 45* is proposing.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

18. What I learned in high school civics:

"The U.S. government is made up of three co-equal branches -- the Executive, the Legislative, and the Judicial. The other two serve as a check on the power of the third."

It's not enough that he's packing the Federal courts (100+ positions) with arch-conservatives, now Donnie Two Scoops is trying to tell Congress how to do their work.

This is what happens when you put a CEO in charge of the presidency. He wants to rule by fiat, not democracy.

[TryLogic]

21. Damn right

[BumRushDaShow]

23. Fortunately Obama already packed the courts

with 3 times as many judges and Democratic party-appointed judges now control 9 of the 13 circuit courts of appeals (notably after they got rid of the filibuster for confirmations) - https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=9383147

[Egnever]

26. Thank you Obama!

You may have saved our democracy.

[MrPurple]

28. There should be more, he left with a backlog of like 120 judicial appointments

Because the Rethugs didn't let them through after they got the Senate majority in 2014. That's after they filibustered every nomination when they were in the minority, until Harry Reid voted to change the rules.

[BumRushDaShow]

29. The articles were as of 2014

so I expect more were confirmed since then... but there will always be some rolling "backlog" of judges because you will have some retire or leave for other positions or even die in office. I don't think any President will ever completely fill every slot.

[MrPurple]

30. Of course, but this was far more than the usual backlog

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-to-inherit-more-than-100-court-vacancies-plans-to-reshape-judiciary/2016/12/25/d190dd18-c928-11e6-85b5-76616a33048d_story.html?utm_term=.f1cb519ef0e8

[BumRushDaShow]

31. Yeah but that is still a bit of hyperbole

given how many Obama WAS able to get to during his 8 years - and what was significant was Obama's literal reshaping of the appellate courts (and notably he focused on getting the D.C. appellate filled up), which were 10-3 conservative and were reversed to 9-4 liberal. If what Drumpf is filling up are the lower court judges, then they still have to hit that appellate court level where cases usually end, since the SCOTUS can only accept a certain number (and remand the rest back). That's why Drumpf's E.O.'s have been killed or neutered, one after another.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-obama-idUSKCN1110BC

And just as Republicans have done for years, Democratic Senators can "blue slip" any nominated individual if that person is from their state, and they object to them... which basically kills the nomination.

[iluvtennis]

19. Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt Abe Lincoln

[TryLogic]

20. Trump will look like a fool if he doesn't gather up his family and move to Russia - to hide out.

[flibbitygiblets]

22. hate to tell ya Donnie, but the USS VonClownstick has already set sail

and unfortunately for the world, your ugly ass is at the helm. God help us all.

[Honeycombe8]

24. TRUMP is saying OTHERS will look like fools????

Words escape me.

[Stonepounder]

25. I'm puzzled.

The 'repeal the ACA' vote would still have FAILED if they did away with the Filibuster. The 'Skinny Repeal' only needed 50 votes, with Pence breaking a tie to make the vote 51-50. With a Filibuster you need 60 votes to progress.

The Orange Shitgibbon seems to think that without the Filibuster, all it takes is for 1 person to vote for something that tRump wants and it immediately becomes law.

He is just too damn stupid to serve.

[emulatorloo]

27. Trump in 2013: "Thomas Jefferson wrote the Senate filibuster rule. Harry Reid & Obama killed it

yesterday. Rule was in effect for over 200 years."

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

Donald J Trump: Thomas Jefferson wrote the Senate filibuster rule. Harry Reid & Obama killed it yesterday. Rule was in effect for over 200 years. Nov 22,2013

[EllieBC]

32. 2 questions:

1) would they be able to do that or would it require a very long process?

2) does that moron think the GOP will control the senate forever?

[bora13]

33. let's make him look like fool

if and whenever we can. he is master of that but he likes it so let's
be nice to him and give him what he REALLY wants.

I have noticed that the networks have been doing their part in programming
content that has trumpian related situations to help accentuate the crisis we are in. Ex. Epix Drive-in