Feels more and more likely this ends with Schumer giving Republicans a choice between ending their dumb filibuster and losing his filibuster power forever, which would frankly be a pretty good outcome relative to alternative scenarios.
https://twitter.com/fritschner/status/1442824211123277825
Obviously I think Dems should’ve abolished the filibuster years ago or yesterday, and not just with a narrow carveout for debt limits or whatever. But compared to reopening the budget resolution and basically taking orders from McConnell, the ultimatum option is way better.
*their filibuster power forever.
Agree with this overall, except it should skip right to the “abolish the filibuster” option. Dems shouldn’t jump through a single hoop that McConnell has set up and instructed them to jump through. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
This is why a filibuster ultimatum is the only acceptable course. Can’t reward McConnell by following his bullshit orders.
https://twitter.com/steventdennis/status/1442924069318320128
Ok, there’s another acceptable course I just thought of, which is muscling debt-limit abolition into the reconciliation bill (no re-opening the budget resolution, no new votearamas) and ignoring the parliamentarian when Republicans try to strip it out.
That’s actually the higher synthesis.
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