all have an enormous error that s going to prevent our party from making any progressive progress in the united states. it is this. we are all going to work like the dickens to get more democrats elected to the senate, right? we are going to do that. and i hope we succeed. if we get a majority in the u.s. senate, because of the position of these senators, not a damn thing is going to get done. and i ll tell you why. with all their good intentions, but because they embrace this majority thing called the fi filibust filibuster, mitch mcconnell is going to run the senate if we take a majority. we have to get rid of the filibuster. mr. yang, why are you the best candidate to heal the racial divide in america? your response? i pent seven years running a
or the president who put his name forward. so the nuclear option has been mentioned. how likely is it that senator mcconnell is going to invoke it and will they just get the dems back for harry reid s nuclear option back in 2013? i think there are a lot of wad abbad feelings on both side after what the republicans did to merrick garland who didn t get as much as a hearing. whether or not mitch mcconnell decides to blow up the fi filibust filibuster, which is different than the lower federal courts, which harry reid got rid of the if i would buster for t filibuster for the lower court. but the supreme court is the top of the line when it comes to saying what the constitution is. so that is different life tenure job we re talking about. and the 60 vote threshold is an
make that much money who do go paycheck to paycheck. they, too, are going to be impacted and we can t forget about them. je just scrowe just scrolled programs, some of the febts of a government shutdown. why didn t the democrats pass this budget last year when they controlled both houses and the white house. the biggest one was the senate. the senate created a situation where the filibuster was the rule of the day and the republicans said, you know, we re not going to support virtually anything that the democrats do and the way the smat is set up with the fi filibust filibuster, you have to have 60 votes. the republicans more aggressively used the filibuster in the senate than anybody has in history and, n)fact, we did have an agreement on the entire appropriations set of bills. house, senate, white house signed off on it and agreed to it but the republicans said they were going to bill fuser it fil.