President Trump wants it. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent penned an op-ed and pushed for it on the Sunday Morning Talk Shows. Will we nuke the legislative filibuster in its entirety?
The Democrat talking point during the Schumer shutdown was that the GOP controls the government. Kids, we needed 60 votes in the Senate to push through the bill that ended this insufferably stupid showdown over NPR funding and illegal alien healthcare benefits.
The GOP wasn't going to budge on that $1.5 trillion item, and they didn’t. Still, before Senate Democrats knew the jig was up and broke ranks, literally shoving their leader, Chuck Schumer, out the door, the nuking of what’s left of the filibuster was a Trump war cry. Should we do it?
I am one to take a baseball bat to everything and ruin the political class’ day. Anytime that happens, it’s a win for the American people. But I don’t know about this, folks. I don’t. I like it—I think we could get a lot done if we were to take a flamethrower to what’s left of the filibuster, but what happens when the Democrats take over?
Extreme gun control measures, healthcare for illegal aliens, taxpayer-funded abortion, transgender nonsense, and the policing of free speech a la the United Kingdom could be codified. That’s what scares me. We can’t trust the courts to do the right thing either; that check died a long time ago. Keep the filibuster and a Senate Democratic majority could try to do these things, but they’d need 60 votes. And that’s what keeps a woke nightmare from engulfing us at bay.
Bessent’s column was aimed to put the Senate on notice that if it shut down the government again at the end of January, Republicans should nuke the filibuster. It’s already been put through the shredder for Supreme Court and presidential appointments. I just fear, given how insane Democrats have become, what they’d do in the captain’s chair. It’s a gamble I’m not willing to take, especially since this party endorses or excuses acts of political violence, and likely privately celebrates them. That’s the Left in 2025.
I get that the MAGA agenda could likely be passed with lightning speed, but efficiency was never on the minds of our Founding Fathers. It was safety, to which end they had all this stuff to slow down the government. Stuff like veto, veto override, supermajorities, and judicial review—that latter one might be a bit iffy since we have lefty rogue judges running amok. But the filibuster has and does stop a lot of bad legislation from even being considered, because some things don’t have the votes. After Sandy Hook, Democrats tried to ban so-called assault weapons again. It didn’t even get 40 votes.
In the words of Saint Mick Jagger, you can’t always get what you want. If we had no Democratic Party, of course, ICBM the filibuster to hell, lads. But, alas, we have freedom of speech and association, and there are affiliated and proud members of this snobby, illiberal, and crackpot party who are increasingly threatening our very way of life.
Maybe we won’t need to end the filibuster, and we could just arrest the blue-haired freaks en masse. You know right now these people are plotting acts of domestic terrorism. I wish we could lock up enough to keep Democrats permanently handicapped at the ballot box.
But, for now, until this party is obliterated and deemed irrelevant, I can’t back a move like this. Yet. Someone did mention nuking it for continuing resolutions only. If that’s possible, maybe we got a deal.