The Republican Party has won the trifecta: the White House, the Senate, and the House. It’s a glorious thing that puts the party in a position to clean up aggressively the mess the Biden-Harris administration made. And the Republican Party better be ruthless in their efforts to get this country on the right path.
Democrats are terrified.
"To my Republican colleagues, I offer a word of caution in good faith,” outgoing Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said in the wake of the Democrats’ defeat. “Take care not to misread the will of the people and do not abandon the need for bipartisanship. After winning an election, the temptation may be to go to the extreme. It's consistently backfired on the party in power."
Schumer emphasized that “this body is most effective when it’s bipartisan” and said “if we want in the next four years the Senate to be as productive as the last four, the only way that will happen is through bipartisan cooperation,” before adding, “Democrats will be ready to do what we have consistently done, work with both sides when the opportunity arises.”
Excuse me? How dare he claim that Senate Democrats have been bipartisan? They’ve routinely shut out Republicans from negotiations on key legislation, most notably in their handling of the Inflation Reduction Act, the American Rescue Plan, and even back in the Obama era with Obamacare. These bills were pushed through without meaningful Republican input, leaving no room for cooperation. Furthermore, Schumer himself has been an ardent advocate of partisan tactics, frequently blaming Republicans for gridlock while stifling compromise.
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Schumer then doubled down on his lie, claiming that Democrats “will be ready to do what we have consistently done, work with both sides when the opportunity arises,” further stating that while Democrats would “never abandon our values,” they would “not reject an opportunity to move the ball forward to make people’s lives better when we can.”
This is the same party that abused the filibuster to block George W. Bush’s judicial nominees, then nuked it when the Republican Senate minority used the same tactics on Barack Obama’s judicial nominees.
Yet Schumer has the audacity to lecture Republicans to “not abandon bipartisanship.”
The man who threatened Supreme Court justices by name and helped smear Brett Kavanaugh wants to play nice now that he’s lost pic.twitter.com/EOV9mFxhgM
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) November 13, 2024
Schumer is trying to rewrite history here. Before the election, Schumer promised that had Kamala Harris won and the Democrats maintained control of the Senate, he would eliminate the legislative filibuster so they could enact Kamala’s radical agenda without Republicans getting in the way.
But the onus is now on Republicans to be bipartisan?
While I’m not saying that Republicans should nuke the legislative filibuster, they should warn the Democrats that if they abuse it, they will lose it. Make no mistake about it, Democrats will nuke it anyway the next opportunity they get. In 2021, when they held the trifecta, they sought a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s election system, aiming to solidify their political dominance for the foreseeable future. They nearly succeeded. Had it not been for the objections of Sens. Sinema and Manchin to abolishing the filibuster, the Democrats would have succeeded.
If Democrats were really about bipartisanship, they would lead by example, instead of demanding it only when they are in the minority.
