Representative Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) on Thursday urged Democrats to “grow a backbone” and abolish the Senate filibuster.
The progressive “Squad” member suggested in a tweet that the party should not follow in the footsteps of former President Barack Obama’s administration, which failed to pass sweeping reforms when Democrats had full control over Congress and the White House.
“Democrats can’t repeat the mistake of 2009, we must abolish the filibuster & move legislation that helps us deliver progress for the American people,” Omar wrote. “Let’s grow a backbone.”
Please stop asking us about bipartisanship when this is what the leader of the other party is focused on.
Democrats can’t repeat the mistake of 2009, we must abolish the filibuster & move legislation that helps us deliver progress for the American people.
Let’s grow a backbone. https://t.co/5A9qWW1Jq1
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) May 5, 2021
Omar’s comments came in response to a statement by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) one day earlier in which he said “100 percent of my focus is on stopping this new administration.”
In March, Democrats used budget reconciliation to pass President Biden’s COVID response package without Republican support, a move that elicited much criticism from the GOP after the president had repeatedly touted bipartisanship as one of his priorities.
Democrats, however, have defended the decision to push the bill through, likening Republicans to roadblocks to progress.
“Please stop asking us about bipartisanship when this is what the leader of the other party is focused on,” Omar responded to McConnell’s statement.
Biden, however, seemed unconcerned by the GOP leader’s comment.
“Look, he said that in our last administration with Barack — he was going to stop everything — and I was able to get a lot done with him,” Biden said.
As the slim Democratic majorities in both chambers of Congress could potentially be wiped out by the 2022 midterms, progressives are calling on moderate Democrats, including Senators Joe Manchin (W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.) to support efforts to end the filibuster now.
Without the 60-vote threshold, Democrats could potentially pass a number of their legislative ambitions, such as a voting-rights bill, D.C. statehood, and police reform, with a simple majority vote.
Meanwhile, the Election Transparency Initiative, a group formed to fight congressional Democrats’ election-law proposals, announced a new ad campaign on Wednesday urging Senators Manchin, Sinema, and Jon Tester (D., Mont.) to keep the filibuster intact.
All three senators have expressed opposition to abandoning the filibuster.
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Ilhan Omar just needs to STFU.
She can’t do that. She has her orders from the Ayatollas.
Remember, she’s neither a demoncrat or a repubelican. She’s a member of the Islamic Party.
Someone told me she was heard to say, “Help! I’m talking and I can’t shut up!”
Which reminds me of Mad Max(ine)!
I would care less if I read in the paper Ilhan Omar was term limited by a terminal case of coronavirus…or got run over by a drunk/drugged driver….the coronavirus is free, and the drunk driver could cop a plea….lol
I can agree with what you said 100% . It will take all Americans to put on their Big Boy & Big Girl Panties to get it done though and go after their Representatives and Senators on both sides of the carpet to get really afraid they will loose their Jobs because the Bosses that’s us to decide to FIRE THEM ALL and mean it !!! Take away all their pensions and all the extra shit we pay them for before and after we get rid of them.
“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.” ~Thomas Jefferson
Better idea: abolish Ilhan Omar. The woman who thinks “some people did something” on 9/11/2001. she needs to see the unemployment line and remain in it.
I would say she’s an idiot, but I can’t help but feel like she has a master plan here. Getting rid of the filibuster would be the last step in gaining total Democrat (Socialist) rule. It’s basically the last defense we have in our system of checks and balances. When it’s gone, we are done as a Democratic Republic. At that point, they can do whatever they want.
Without the 60-vote threshold, Neo-fascist Ddemocrats could potentially pass a number of their legislative ambitions, such as a voting-fraud bill, D.C. statehood, and police elimination, with a simple majority vote.
There, fixed!
BTW, no one shives a git what that anti-American, incestuous, piece of Muslim pig crap ways!
Some of that actually made sense, but now I’m sorry I read it. Your logic is confusing me !
Ilhan Omar, Islamic Terrorist supporter and all around jew hater member of congress. What could possibly go wrong.
Omar the Zero ….. send that worthless pos back.
This omar is right about one thing, the democrats have no “backbone” when an Anti-American POS like her is in their party to start with.