That Darned Filibuster

For John, BLUF:  The Democratic Party officials, elected and bureaucratic, are being hypocrites over the Filibuster.  Look at last week, where they filibustered a Senator Ted Cruz bill for sanctions on the NordStream 2 pipeline.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Democrats used filibuster 327 times, compared to only once by GOP in 2020: Report

From The Washington Examiner, by Editor Andrew Mark Miller, 26 March 2021, 06:18 PM.

Here is the lede plus one:

President Joe Biden has been increasingly critical of the Senate filibuster, calling it a Jim Crow relic and saying it has been widely abused despite Democrats using it over 300 times in 2020, compared to once by Republicans.

“After @POTUS @JoeBiden denounced the rampant abuse of the filibuster last year, we did some digging,” Fox News anchor John Roberts tweeted Friday.  “Republicans used it once. Democrats used it 327 times.”

The kind thing to say is that the Democrats are hypocrites.

The unkind thing to say is they would sell their Mothers down the river for an edge in an electio.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff