Democrats who favor the change, including potential vice presidential contender Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., say the 60-vote rule gives a minority of senators a permanent veto that makes progressive governance impossible, particularly given the structure of the Senate that gives small red states like Idaho and Wyoming the same representation as large blue states like California and New York.
A Biden campaign spokesman didn't immediately return a request for comment on whether he would support or oppose a Democratic effort to abolish the 60-vote threshold for legislation. Achieving"cloture" initially required unanimous consent. In 1917, it was cut to 67 votes. The last time it changed was 1975, requiring 60 votes to end debate. It is not a Constitutional requirement and can be changed with 51 votes in the Senate.
"So that's not really a revolution," he said."What would be a revolution — and turn the Senate into the House — would be to change the legislative filibuster."
Why not?
Put your hand down, MF. No one needs to hear you any more. Unless you spoke Russian. That would be cool and on brand.
Putin MCConnell is a danger to America and is a traitor.
Pot calling the kettle black.
Maybe he doesn’t have the time !!
McConnell needs to go to prison with Trump!!!!!!
Warns the Democrats Really!!!!!!!After all of the antics and corruption the Republicans have engaged with for the last 4 years!!!!!!How dare McConnell!!!!! He has to resign or be voted out!!!!!!!!!!
If the Dems win back the Senate & McConnell keeps his seat, they should pass a rule to have a vote to tell him to 'fuck off' every day.
Toe for change, it not working now so..
Yeah Moscow Mitch knows all about changing rules doesn't he
I wonder if there is a double standard
The GOP can have the filibuster in place and fulfill its goals of obstruction and nominating bad judges. Only the Dems need to get rid of it. So there's no reason to for the Dems to keep it. There's no risk the GOP will abuse it when they get back power. So go for it!
Kentucky, vote McGrath
What a joke. He destroyed every rule and norm to get his way. As evil and corrupt as Trump. I pray he goes to jail. He acts only for himself, not for America. Truly scum. The people of Kentucky made him rich while they suffer.
Moscow mitch the hypocrite.
Moscow Mitch needs to suck a duck!
His hypocrisy is unending.
Love this change!
Merrick Garland.
Karma
Getting stale and staying stale.
Moscow mitch
Fuck him, he changed it for judges. He knows he’s gonna lose.
Filibuster = White Privilege...; in a Democratically controlled Senate.
Weird I recall senatemajldr changing the senate rules to illegally appoint a Supreme Court justice. He must think we aren’t paying attention.
Well bless his heart.
Hahahahaha!
sahilkapur The guy who stole a senate seat is warning the other party not to do what he did.
We’re not taking orders from this toad. Next.
Poor boy, looks like the shoe might be on the other foot soon.
🙄🤪😝😁😂🤣
senatemajldr MoscowMitch
Wow. It's ok for Moscow Mitch to change the rules, but not the Dems?!?!? Sounds like the President regarding vote by mail. These clowns gotta go.
Mitch McConnell’s racist ideology, policies and practices of inequity for people of color and their sympathizers, which he has achieved by positioning biased Federal Judges as Guardians to maintain, restrain and chain with invisible “shackles” will not go unanswered.
Hahahahahaha
Why is he talking about this? Is he maybe worried he’s losing control?
He would do it in a heartbeat.
sahilkapur Hilarious. He knows he is likely to be in the minority very soon and wants to keep his power
Talk about hypocrisy.
1. GOP are bullies when majority & act in bad faith when minority, yet call on Dems to be decent in both roles. Their hypocrisy is boundless.😕 2. senatemajldr expects realDonaldTrump to lose.😯 3. If Dems acted like GOP, Garland would be on SCOTUS.🤔 Gloves off in 2021!🤬
I'll believe it when he restores the 60-vote threshold for approving judicial appointments
Why he changed rules to pass his BS
AmyMcGrathKY unseat MoscowMitch so we never have to see his flapping jowls again.
You need to crawl back in your shell!
sahilkapur Because we know McConnell is an institutionalist devoted to transparent accountable participatory democracy
sahilkapur MCCONNELL REALLY THINKS DEMS SHOULD LISTEN TO HIM.
sahilkapur McConnell broke all the rules to deny Obama court nominees and has stacked the courts with egregiously unqualified candidates.
The man who broke the Senate has thoughts about how the Dems should act when they take the majority. He can GFH.
Hey Mitch shut up !!! You have used the senate to do whatever you wanted, hiring multiple unqualified judges across this country!! This has been your goal!! You allowed trump to remain in the WH knowing he is killing people daily! So you have NO SAY what the House does!!!
sahilkapur MoscowMitchMcTreason warning about procedure? Treason Turtle can get lost.
sahilkapur
sahilkapur Fuck him.
sahilkapur LoL As if Democrats care about what McConnell says.
sahilkapur Supreme Court Justice Merrick Garland can't be reached for comment. We know McConnell would fill any SCT seat with one of his right wing extremists from the short list if one were to become vacant any day between now and November. He'd do it without hearings if need be.
sahilkapur Traitor McConnell doesn’t deserve to ever be believed about anything again. Ever
sahilkapur Only when it benefits him and his party. Oh please!
sahilkapur Someone kick that turtle into a ditch and let’s move on.
Except when he needed it and used it, which is a perfect example of a gaping hole in our political system.
Whatever richmitch warns them not to do they should do. He only cares about what is best for him and his cronies. Not what's best for the American people and upholding the Constitution.
👏👏👏👏
Fuck him
I think Mitch should be more worried about the investigation into his family, Russian payoffs, and going to jail traitor
Who cares about what that old fart said 👎🐷🤮🦠😂🤣🤣🤣
Moscow Mitch is a loathsome being, a racist, and a traitor. He should be arrested. He’s owned by too many corporations, 1%ers & Russia & China. Corrupt to the core.
NEVER LISTEN TO THE TRAITOR MITCHtheBITCH!
senatemajldr Merrick Garland
Right or wrong it’s not a great look for a leader who has flaunted traditions and been overtly obstinate. Now his party may be in trouble & he’s having a moment of clarity... also spare me the comments- I know Dems do it too. I’m just referring to his comments after his actions.
The grand cyclops.
Just because Moscow Mitch doesn’t want to legislate doesn’t mean others don’t want to fulfill their obligations to legislate on behalf of the citizens they represent.
FK MoscowMitch !
Sit down. We warn YOU about countless investigations into your personal play for pay finances.
Runner up to Kremlin man of the year.
Moscow Mitch has to go
senatemajldr Dems won't let you block the next agenda like you did with Obama.
They sure will lose control in November! You do not care about the American people why should the American people care about your jobs-your fired GOP SenateRepCaucus SenateGOP
This guy needs to go he has rip of both sides for many years think about how rich he has become as majority leader behind close door deals lining his pocket while the poor get poor he does not care except his bottom line money
What is this clown talking about, he has no respect for rules
Measuring the drapes already? 🤔
let’s ask MerrickGarland what he thinks
Yeah, don't do all the tricks senatemajldr does!
Merrick Garland.
🤮🤮🤮🤮
Democrats just need to wait till January 2021 when Republicans are a minority party in the Senate.
MitchMcConnell in NO position to warn Democrats❗️ 3 1/2 years AidingAndAbetting tRUmp regime, taking Russian Rubles funneled thru NRA, sitting on 100s of bills pass by House of Representatives. Kentucy VOTE MoscowMitch OUT 2020Election‼️ VoteAmyMcGrath AmyMcGrathKY
Says the traitor who changed Senate rules to steal a Supreme Court seat. MoscowMitch
And SenateDems HouseDemocrats SpeakerPelosi SenSchumer and Americans respond
Swamp Creature Mitch stole a SCOTUS appointment that impacted the balance of the court for a generation. So gfy
😂😂McConnell never met a rule that couldn’t be broken as long as it helped his agenda. He needs to be laughed out of the room.
Repeal it and call it the “Mitch is an Asshole” bill.
Hearing Mitch say multisyllabic words like 'filibustrr' is like the old days when you played an album backward to listen for satanic messages.
all i can say is TrurtleSoup,,, Vote him OUT!!!!!
So Mitch is already conceding Senate to Dems? Means he's also saying Trump def getting ousted.
Mitch issues a grave warning to Dems: if they don't obey him, he might... eh... obstruct all legislation? Confirm unqualified radical judges at a breakneck pace? Prevent a judge highly respected by both sides from even getting a hearing? Oh right, he's doing all of that already.
Good sign! He thinks Dems will do well in Nov.
Really?
Hahahahaha
If mitch McConnell thinks its bad we should kill it with a Vengeance
Mitch McConnell wants to keep the corruption in place so everyone can play the same way when the are the in command so why keep the same corruption because that’s the process of politics
I can do it; you can't.
I am not even sure why it's a debate....McConnell is exploiting every rule the Senate has & is even inventing a few new ones (remember Garland?) And he has the nerve to lecture others with his clear lack of ethics? what a fraud.
Lol
What a putz. Why should Democrats *ever* care about treats from Republicans who are *proud* that they never ever fight back?
That's really rich coming from..remember Merrick Garland..Mitch, isnt it?👵🏝
😂🤣😂🤣
LOL. The turtle hypocrite🤭
Last time they were warned about changing the filibuster rules they screwed themselves and have cried foul ever since. Reid did the same thing with the nuclear option and they've regretted that decision. Democrats aren't really that smart but they sure do brag about it.
This.....
Where was senatemajldr when the republicans completely changed the rules under Obama? hypocrite
Of course, as he sees his lots of the Senate imminent.
I'm all for getting rid of the filibuster. I have spoken.
HOLLOW WORDS FROM A KOCHSUCKING GOP LIAR
But it’s okay when they change the rules
Mitch, If you can read this, change has come to the U.S.A. You failed! You will see your state suffer. They will hold you accountable. You are as responsible as that traitor Trump for dragging us down not to mention the many others bye bye!
WHAT IS HE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT
Filibustering while America burns.
Fair? This is the man behind the creator of America's new rank 3rd world status. He has padded the SCOTUS with an unqualified beer swiller. He does little for America and not much for Kentucky. How does a career civil servant accumulate a $28 mil fortune
Republicans are stupid. They will all be standing around with their dicksin their hands soon. And I vote with the Republicans. God help us all.
Southern Democrats. They never mention that. Not an accident. “It was rarely used for generations and came to the fore in the mid-1950s when Southern senators used it to filibuster civil rights “
When the time comes I hope he’s not in the frame
Translation: Terminate filibuster with extreme prejudice.
He invented goal post moving. Remember Nuclear? You get nuked Nov 3rd. Pack your bags, clear your desk.
Says the ultimate rule changer.
Stay in your lane Turtle face.
MerrickGarland sends his regards senatemajldr
McConnell has abused it for what, 11 1/2 years?
Is this a little reverse psychology?
😂
'You have no power over me!'
You mean like he changed the rules about foreign contributions to election campaigns? I guess MoscowMitch is the only one allowed to do that. PutinsGOP
Nice of Mitch to admit the Polls are correct & the Senate will be flipped.
That stupid face really pisses me off.😡😤
TheDemocrats warn the senatemajldr about the stupidity of hitching his wagon, and that of the GOP, to a manifestly corrupt and unfit president, AKA realDonaldTrump.
Merrick Garland
Vote Mitch out.
LOL
Na na na na, hey hey, hey, goodbye.
I trust as fact everything opposite to what drivel falls out of this far-less-than-semi-clever-primate's mouth. I once heard him giggle and laugh maniacally during a FOX interview. It was the most chilling and horrifyingly evil thing I've ever experienced. 😖
In April 2017, Senate Republicans led by Mitch McConnell extended the nuclear option to Supreme Court nominations in order to end debate on the nomination of Neil Gorsuch. As of June 2020, a three-fifths majority vote is still required to end debates on legislation.
MitchMcConnellMustGO
mr filibuster himself! bye moscow mitch ur gonna be turtle crap soon! n take ur GOP doggs with u!
No one cares what MoscowMitchMcConnell says. He's a traitor and Trump's lapdog.
Filibuster I don’t want to talk about it. Get item line vetoes.
Mitch is running scared!
Shut up senatemajldr and get to work for the American people on the 400 Bills sitting on your desk! On 11/3, The People will send your party packing!
I see a mentor teaching freshmen....NBC sees something entirely different 🙄
He's one to talk he changed the rules for all his terrible judges.
He can fuck right off.
Mitch has changed SO many rules,there is no LawAndOrder when it comes to realDonaldTrump CountryOverParty MTGOP KYGOP studentsfortrump sft_asu TrumpStudents
This man is a total disgrace, he backs a president who lies, who,none action is killing his own people....both this man and the Arse in the White House should be out of politics...AT COMPLETE AND TOTAL DISCRACE.
The Democrats quiver with fear 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
SenSchumer ChrisCoons y’all better change the filibuster 😒🤦🏾♂️
He’s already irrelevant.
Sure , you want to change the goalpost. We will be in control in November. Sooo. Bye bye
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MoscowMitchMcConnell has done so much to destroy our democracy. Please DitchMitch2020
Whatever
If there’s any justice, this prick will be booted out in November. Then he won’t have to worry about the filibuster.
Republicans are running scared!
Fuck him. It’s time to end the filibuster. Admit PR and DC as States and when MoscowMitchMcConnell complains just say MerrickGarland
Tell that to Merrick Garland, MoscowMitch
Moscow Mitch will burn in hell
“I’m warning you! Don’t make me come back there! Just wait until your father gets home!” GOPCowards BlueWave2020 BLM DemocracyInChains MoscowMitch TraitorTrump
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This tells you which tactic they were counting on to be able to prevent the Democrats removing all those insidious laws for beating down the poor and unconnected.
...'warning' Mitch he soon will be evicted from The Senate
Of course senatemajldr the king filibusters would say that.
He looks like a toad.
MoscowMitch says what?
Shut up, Mitch, you are bad for our country.
Turkey neck knows where he can stick that warning lol
Anything that Mitch McConnell warns you about should be met with open arms.
And any time you start fiddling around with the rules of the Senate you always need to put yourself in the other fellow's shoes and just imagine what might happen when the winds shift -- Veiled threats anyone?
Looks like someone thinks he's going to lose the Senate soon.
Dang he is panicked about losing the white house
Mitch ought to preserve the $600 unemployment bonus that people have been relying on to survive instead of worrying about filibusters
Now he’s into rules?
That old bastard need to step down..
Love that absolutely no one is responding to him in any way on this. Just ignore him. He's going away.
Traitor
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