Schumer breaks news to Booker on Senate floor that Republicans are planning to sidestep parliamentarian on current policy.

“They don’t care anymore about norms, about rules, and even about going nuclear,” he says

Booker says it’s “further breaking of the Senate”

“Next time around, there’s no going back now”

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[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 78 points 2 days ago (3 children)

My favorite part of this is that whenever anyone brought up the idea of “just ignore the parliamentarian” when Dems were in control, the response from the establishment was always, “we can’t do that, it would just give Republicans license to do the same.” And then the Republicans go ahead and do it anyways.

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's infuriating how Democrats always use this excuse. If Republicans think they can get away with murdering or imprisoning every Democrat, they will murder and imprison every Democrat. This has been obvious for decades Republicans don't care about norms or decorum. They care about wielding power.

Obama did this shit with the ACA. Clinton got himself impeached while Newt was pulling the same sexual misconduct. Carter let Nixon undermine the Vietnam treaty. The list goes on and on and we haven't even talked about state or city-level shenanigans.

[–] Hexboare@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago

At least LBJ was spying on the republicans first

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 27 points 1 day ago

It's almost like it's obvious to anyone that the Republicans would do it just like they changed the rules for supreme court rules. And any other rule that gets in their way.

But it's not like the dems actually want to make progress so makes sense they'd ignore those facts

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 17 points 1 day ago

Bet that if the Supreme Court rules something against Trump wishes he put 5 new judges there.