{"id":56429,"date":"2021-03-17T08:25:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T12:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=56429"},"modified":"2021-03-17T08:25:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T12:25:48","slug":"fake-outrage-mcconnell-flips-out-over-filibuster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=56429","title":{"rendered":"FAKE OUTRAGE? McConnell Flips Out Over Filibuster"},"content":{"rendered":"

McConnell Flips Out Over Filibuster, Threatens ‘Scorched Earth Senate’ If Dems Pursue Power Grab<\/h1>\n

ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) says there would be a ‘scorched earth Senate’ if Democrats push forward to eliminate the filibuster, which requires a supermajority of 60 votes to pass most types of legislation.<\/p>\n

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“Nobody serving in this chamber can even begin to imagine what a completely scorched earth Senate would look like<\/strong>,” he said, predicting that the Senate would turn into “a 100 car pile-up<\/strong>“\u00a0where “nothing moves”<\/strong>\u00a0– implying it would somehow be akin to February’s 100-car pile-up in Texas where\u00a0six people died<\/a>, we guess.<\/p>\n

If Dems ‘blow up the filibuster,’ McConnell says he’ll require a quorum for every piece of Democrat legislation – which VP Kamala Harris couldn’t become a tie-breaker for, and that previous actions would seem like “child’s play.”<\/p>\n

And while moderate Democrats such as Joe Manchin, and\u00a0most<\/em>\u00a0Republicans, oppose getting rid of the filibuster –\u00a0Politico’<\/em>s Burgess Everett described it as the “biggest threat” to the GOP in the short term.<\/p>\n