Beto wants to abolish ANOTHER ‘long-standing tradition’ to help liberals push their radical agenda…

2020 Democrats want to abolish the electoral college.

They want to completely change the makeup of the Supreme Court.

And now some of them are calling for the abolishment of another long-standing tradition that they see as an obstacle to pushing their agenda:

FOX NEWS – Add Beto O’Rourke to a growing list of Democratic presidential candidates who are considering scrapping long-standing Senate procedure in hopes of passing a sweeping progressive agenda should they make it to the White House.

Under siege is the filibuster, the longstanding Senate tradition requiring 60 votes in the 100-member chamber to advance a bill, effectively allowing the minority party to block legislation.

“I think that that’s something that we should seriously consider,” O’Rourke told reporters on the campaign trail in New Hampshire earlier this week.

“We have to look at some of these institutional reforms, whether it’s the Supreme Court, the Electoral College, the filibuster in the Senate, we’ve got to get democracy and our institutions working again,” explained the former three-term congressman from Texas.

Beto isn’t the only one.

Another 2020 Democrat is advocating it too. It’s almost like they had a pow-wow or something:

On the same day that O’Rourke entertained the idea, a rival for the Democratic nomination also opened the door to the idea of dispatching with the filibuster.

“When you talk about changing the filibuster rule I understand that we are heading, right now, we are heading that way,” Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey said in an interview on “Pod Save America.” “I’m going to tell you that for me that door is not closed.”

According to Fox News this is actually a change of position for Booker, who told Politico in January “we should not be doing anything to mess with the strength of the filibuster. It’s one of the distinguishing factors of this body. And I think it is good to have the power of the filibuster.”

Speaking of pow-wows, one more 2020 Democrat is also open to the idea:

And so Democrats hoping to pass a sweeping progressive agenda if they win back the White House are concerned their proposals could get bottlenecked in the Senate, where the Democrats have a shot at winning back control — but have little chance of grabbing a 60-member, filibuster-proof majority.

“Everything stays on the table. You keep it all on the table. Don’t take anything off the table,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren said when recently asked on the presidential campaign trail about scrapping the filibuster.

It’s easy for them to advocate this now that Republicans have lost the House. It would do Republicans no good to get rid of the filibuster now.

But can you imagine in the last two years if McConnell had said he wanted to get rid of the filibuster to push Trump’s agenda? All holy hell would have broken loose!

The media would have been outraged and Democrats would have been decrying this as if Republicans were trying to reinstitute slavery. And that’s not an exaggeration.

Yet this is now what these radical leftists are advocating, and the media doesn’t even care.


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