Democrats Have Forgotten About Establishing A Floor

Senate democrats on tuesday introduced legislation that would establish a task force to investigate claims that the trump administration politicized health agencies response to the coronavirus.

Democrats have forgotten about establishing a floor.

Bush s first term senate democrats pioneered the use of the filibuster to block nominees to the circuit courts. As the minority party following a disastrous midterm in 2014 they could not force a committee or a floor. More than 6 5 million americans have been infected with the virus and more than 194 000 have died. Vis à vis the filibuster the journal wrote it s mostly forgotten now but in george w.

Democrats in congress have done little more than pay lip service to bipartisanship in the week since the passing of justice ruth bader ginsburg. That s the number of votes needed in the senate to. That was also unprecedented. Instead of opening a formal impeachment inquiry in ukrainegate democrats should have calmed down taken a deep breath and counted to 67.

Senate democrats blocked the gop s attempt to advance a skinny 500 billion coronavirus. That fact means democrats have at least some power they could use. Miguel estrada was left hanging for 28 months before he withdrew though he had support from 55 senators. Now however those same democrats are so desperate to keep president trump from nominating a replacement for the late justice ginsburg that they seem to have forgotten all of the constitutional.

Even as the high court s ideological balance is. If democrats manage to hold the house of representatives and win back the senate and the white house in november the party will have full control of the federal government for the first time in.