My point is to hold it 24/7, until the Senators are drowning in their own urine and feces and hallucinating from lack of sleep. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Or is this a manufactured crisis? They'd vote 99-1 or 100-1 at that point to end it. As far as I understand the rules Schumer can do that unilaterally. Is there a rule that says he can't?
My point is to hold it 24/7, until the Senators are drowning in their own urine and feces and hallucinating from lack of sleep. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Or is this a manufactured crisis? They'd vote 99-1 or 100-1 at that point to end it. As far as I understand the rules Schumer can do that unilaterally. Is there a rule that says he can't?
If I understand it correctly, there might be two problems. First, it may not actually work (as Jay implied). And secondly, it would set a precedent that could later backfire badly.
Although the third problem might well be that, for the last 20 years at least, the Democrats have brought Nerf balls to a gun fight. I still remember Obama unnecessarily bargaining away most of the best parts of what ended up as Obamacare in a naive and futile hope of "bipartisanship".
OK but how would it not work? It seems pretty straightforward to me. And I'm not worried about what may or may not happen in the future, I'm worried about what's happening right now. As to the third problem, you are right. Schumer would never do it sadly. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't demand it.
My point is to hold it 24/7, until the Senators are drowning in their own urine and feces and hallucinating from lack of sleep. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Or is this a manufactured crisis? They'd vote 99-1 or 100-1 at that point to end it. As far as I understand the rules Schumer can do that unilaterally. Is there a rule that says he can't?
If I understand it correctly, there might be two problems. First, it may not actually work (as Jay implied). And secondly, it would set a precedent that could later backfire badly.
Although the third problem might well be that, for the last 20 years at least, the Democrats have brought Nerf balls to a gun fight. I still remember Obama unnecessarily bargaining away most of the best parts of what ended up as Obamacare in a naive and futile hope of "bipartisanship".
OK but how would it not work? It seems pretty straightforward to me. And I'm not worried about what may or may not happen in the future, I'm worried about what's happening right now. As to the third problem, you are right. Schumer would never do it sadly. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't demand it.