That s the outcome republicans and conservatives want. that is where they ve been fighting for for over the past half century. and yet, when faced with the prospect of their imminent culminating victory. what do they do? what they do best, they wine. they whine about the process. today, mitch mcconnell of kentucky, tougher looking to the senate did not even mention burrow or abortion in his initial remarks to reporters. instead lamenting the fact that the draft decision was leaked at all. again, this is been the desired results of mcconnell s decade plus campbell to stack the supreme court. this is one of the reasons why he took the holy unprecedented step of blocking president barack obama from filling justice antonin scalia seat and putting merrick garland on the court. it is why he abolish the filibuster for supreme court justices. one of the first things he did to push neil gorsuch on the courts in scalia s place. it is why he backed brett kavanaugh even after he was accused of sex
Kentucky, to republican of the senate did not even mention burrow or abortion in his initial remarks to reporters. instead lamenting the fact that the draft decision was leaked at all. again, this is been the desired results of mcconnell s decade plus campbell to stack the supreme court. this is one of the reasons why he took the holy unprecedented step of blocking president barack obama from filling justice antonin scalia seat and putting merrick garland on the court. it is why he abolish the filibuster for supreme court justices. one of the first things he did to push neil gorsuch on the courts in scalia s place. it is why he backed brett kavanaugh even after he was accused of sexual assault his accuser came to testify under oath before the united states senate. push for the confirmation of amy coney barrett just days before presidential election when ruth bader ginsburg body was hardly in the ground. an election that is lost. he did it, mitch mcconnell. and he face the consequence
Actually helped negotiate that bill, you know, the senator who s big on bipartisan efforts. that bill included provisions, popular provisions like making election day a holiday, enacting automatic and same day voter registration, and expanding early and mail-in voting. but on wednesday, not a single republican, not one republican even voted to open up debate for the legislation, and so the bill met the same fate as its predecessors. blocked by a republican filibuster. now you re probably sick of hearing about the dreaded f word, but this latest failure is set to thrust the 60-vote threshold into the spotlight once again. is there a path forward for filibuster reform in this country? on the republican side no gop lawmakers have come out in support of reform. that shouldn t be surprising since they aren t the minority party, but it s important to remember this, that republicans had no problem eliminaing the filibuster for supreme court justices in 2017. and this kind of flip-flopping
The filibuster for supreme court justices. then they take it a step further with merrick garland, which just basically says it doesn t if you re president of the united states, it just doesn t matter. yeah. well, you ve had there is no point. there is no more advise and consent. we ve now had at least 12 years of rolling payback. both parties going at one another. we will have payback when the democrats, if they ever gain control of the senate, will have payback, the democrats to the republicans. it s been going on now for at least 12 years, as i said. steve, i don t know about you, i remember a functioning united states senate. that no longer exists. i remember a functioning united states senate. before we go in the time capsule, they did another thing, repealing the 30-hour debate rule. it at least gave the democrats a chance to slow this down and