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Schumer eyes locking in one-party rule if Dems win, will nuke filibuster

August 26, 2024 | | Print Article

In some ways, Democrats are actually right when they claim that democracy is at stake in this year’s election because they are the ones who intend to end it.

Just take it from Senate Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) who is prepared to unleash the “nuclear option” by destroying the filibuster, the sole remaining bulwark standing in the way of permanent one-party Democrat rule.

Oozing with confidence that his party can win big in the election now that Kamala Harris has been installed as the nominee, the scheming Schumer tipped his hand on what Democrats intend to do once their Senate majority has been fortified.

“We got it up to 48, but, of course, Sinema and Manchin voted no; that’s why we couldn’t change the rules. Well, they’re both gone,” he told reporters at the Democrat National Convention in Chicago on Tuesday, according to NBC News. “Ruben Gallego is for it, and we have 51. So even losing Manchin, we still have 50.”

Schumer was referring to Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) who are both expected to lose their seats with the volatile Gallego winning in Arizona. The two senators were the fly in the ointment, both resisting their party’s push to end the 60-vote filibuster rule that would unleash a wave of tyranny by the majority.

“I’m not predicting this, but Donald Trump may lose by more than people think, helping us in the Senate and the House,” he said with the confidence of a man who knows something that nobody else does.

But that was before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dropped his own nuke on Democrats, suspending his Independent campaign and throwing his support behind Trump on Friday, a game-changer that could deliver enough anti-Harris votes to the former president to overcome any trickery by the party and its operatives in the swing states that will determine America’s fate.

The first two items on Schumer’s agenda if the filibuster falls are “voting rights” and making abortion the law of the land.

According to NBC News, at a separate Politico event last Monday, the New York City Democrat said that the bills set to be crammed through over a Republican minority that will soon be stripped of any power will be the controversial Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act which he described as “very, very important” while predicting there will be “consensus in my caucus to try and do that.”

On Tuesday, the majority leader also said that Democrats will “also discuss potential rule changes to codify abortion rights in federal law, a party priority after Roe v. Wade was overturned, which similarly faces Republican opposition and lacks a path to 60 Senate votes,” the outlet reported.

“I have to discuss that with my caucus,” he said. “This is one of the issues we would have to debate and discuss and evolve.”

“We want to protect choice. We have to see how we can do that,” Schumer added.

The top Senate Democrat has also led the party’s war on the Supreme Court, a co-equal branch of government, and with the filibuster gone, the party can proceed with efforts to toss conservative justices off the bench on bogus ethics violation charges and pack the court with rabid left-wing ideologues.

Never in the nation’s history has a major political party so flagrantly trashed longstanding norms and principles that have been the foundation of the Republic. Despite their differences, there was once a shared sense of loyalty to the system itself between Democrats and Republicans.

That is no longer the case.

Chris Donaldson
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