Senator Steve Daines (R-MT) must have had a late night with the milk and cookies to come up with this brainstorm. Or, maybe Putin inspired Daines when he visited Moscow last July 4.
House just passed a bill that fully funds government and enables @realDonaldTrump to secure our border/build the wall. Senate can do same by eliminating the filibuster. 51 votes, same as we do for judges!
— Steve Daines (@SteveDaines) December 21, 2018
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has long said the support does not exist for extending the simple-majority threshold to limit debate to the legislative calendar, and back in January a senior Senate GOP aide said the votes did not exist within the Republican Conference for such a move.
The “nuclear option” is so named because it involves having a majority of senators change Senate precedents in order to effectively change the rules without the two-thirds that would be required to invoke cloture on changes to the standing rules themselves.
Even though it is beyond a long shot, President Donald Trump himself has pushed for the setting of a simple-majority threshold, and there should be every expectation that he could again on Friday.
If you can’t get your way, just figure out a way to cheat and rig the rules. Sounds Republican to me! Seriously, Daines ought to take a look out his window, and maybe talk to some of the other prairie dogs. The other Senator in his state is a Democrat and so is the Governor. This might not be the best idea Daines has had. And what’s comical, is that he’s assuming that Corker and Flake will vote how he wants them to. Ask the Democrats about that, they’ve got a lot of experience along that line. Good luck even finding the 51!
Mark my words, that tweet is not going to age well.
