Schumer: Democrats WILL Filibuster Neil Gorsuch

I HAVE SHOCKINGLY GOOD NEWS.
I SAY SHOCKINGLY NOT BECAUSE IT IS DRAMATIC, BUT SURPRISING.
DEMOCRATS HAVE DECIDED THEY ARE GOING TO FILIBUSTER NEIL GORE
SUCH.
NOT ALL THE DEMOCRATS ARE ON BOARD, OF COURSE.
PEOPLE LIKE DONNELLY, HEITKAMP HAVE SAID WHO CARES, I AM NOT
GOING TO BLOCK THEIR NOMINEE IN FACT I WILL VOTE YES.
BUT CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE.
WE HAVE 41 DEMOCRATIC SENATORS WHO ARE GOING TO ACTUALLY
AGREE TO DO A FILIBUSTER.
IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS, THAT IS A TRADITION AND A RULE
IN THE SENATE THAT SAYS THAT YOU NEED ñ IF THE MINORITY PARTY
DECIDES THEY DON'T WANT TO GO FORWARD THEY CAN DO A
FILIBUSTER AND YOU WOULD NEED 60 VOTES TO BREAK A FILIBUSTER.
AND HENCE 41 DEMOCRATIC SENATORS ARE NOW SAYING THEY WILL JOIN,
IT MEANS YOU CANNOT BREAK IT.
OF COURSE A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS CAN HAPPEN AND
EVENTUALLY THAT FILIBUSTER CAN GIVE IN.
OR THE REPUBLICANS CAN TAKE AWAY THE FILIBUSTER.
THE OTHER NOBLE THING THAT HAPPENS IS YOU WITHDRAW THE
NOMINEE AND YOU PUT FORWARD A NEW NOMINEE THAT ACTUALLY CAN
GET AGREEMENT ENOUGH FROM THE SENATE TO BE CONFIRMED.
PATRICK LEAHY IS ONE OF THE SENATORS THAT CAME IN NEAR THE
END AND SAID YES, HE WILL VOTE NO AND JOIN THE FILIBUSTER.
HIS REASONS WERE BECAUSE GORE SUCH DURING HIS CONFIRMATION
HEARINGS WERE "EXCRUCIATINGLY EVASIVE AND PATRONIZING."
VERY TRUE.
AS YOU WATCH GORSUCH THROUGHOUT HE WOULD SAY THAT
IS A POLITICAL ISSUE.
I HAVE COURSE CANNOT COMMENT ON THAT SEN.
WE KNOW YOU CLAIM YOU CAN'T COMMENT ON POLITICAL ISSUES.
HE DID IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN WITH THAT SMUG LOOK ON HIS FACE.
LEAHY WOULD ASK HIM ABOUT THE MOST ESTABLISHED SUPREME COURT
PRECEDENTS, AND HE SAID A COURT CASE COULD COME BEFORE THAT SO
I CAN'T SAY ANYTHING.
IN OTHER WORDS YOU'RE NOT GOING TO SAY ANYTHING AND YOU THINK
IT IS CUTE, UNLESS YOU ASK ME ABOUT HOW I PLAYED BASKETBALL
IN THE SUPREME COURT WITH BYRON WHITE WHICH IS WHAT TED CRUZ
DID AND THEY SNICKERED FOR ABOUT SIX MINUTES.
IF YOU'RE NOT GOING TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS THEN WE ARE NOT
GOING TO CONFIRM, VERY EASY.
THE HUFFINGTON POST REPORTS THAT.
SO IT HAS BEGUN.
REPUBLICAN REACTION?
LINDSEY GRAHAM AS PART OF THE REPUBLICANS, WHEN THEY WERE IN
THE MINORITY THEY SAID THE FILIBUSTER IS THE MOST
IMPORTANT THING THERE IS IN THE WORLD.
OUR BELOVED SENATE TRADITIONS, HOW CAN THE DEMOCRATS POSSIBLY
THINK ABOUT TAKING IT AWAY?
NOW HE IS LIKE WE WILL CHANGE IT IF WE HAVE TO.
YOU LET US BLOCK ALL THOSE OBAMA NOMINEES WHEN YOU GUYS HAD THE
MAJORITY?
STUPID, THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE.
THE MINUTE WE ARE IN POWER FILIBUSTER IS GONE.
THAT IS WHAT LINDSEY GRAHAM IS GOING TO DO.
DON'T SPARE ME YOUR CROCODILE TEARS.
AS IF YOU EVER CARED ABOUT SENATE TRADITIONS AND RULES,
ALL YOU CARE ABOUT IS POWER.
I'M NOT BLAMING CHUCK SCHUMER FOR SAYING THAT, THAT IS A
FINE JOB.
HE LED THE ORGANIZATIONS TO FILIBUSTER.
BUT THE FACT THAT WE ARE EVEN DEBATING THIS IS MADNESS.
WHO'S FAULT WOULD IT BE IF WE GOT RID OF THE FILIBUSTER?
IT IS LIKE SOME DOMESTIC ABUSE DEFENDANT IN COURT GOING SHE
MADE ME DO IT.
THAT IS NOT A DEFENSE.
IF THE REPUBLICANS DO IT YOU ARE TAKING AWAY THE FILIBUSTER.
THAT IS THE WHOLE POINT OF A FILIBUSTER THAT THEY
VEHEMENTLY DISAGREE, THAT IS WHY THEY ARE FILIBUSTERING.
IF YOU TAKE IT AWAY, IT IS THAT YOU ARE CHOOSING TO DO IT
BECAUSE YOU JUST WANT TO GET YOUR PRO CORPORATE GUY, GORE
SUCH, IN UNDER ALL CIRCUMSTANCES.
YOU DON'T CARE, YOU NEVER CARED ABOUT SENATE RULES.
PLEASE SPARE ME.
THEY SAY REPUBLICANS MEANWHILE ARE ANGRY DEMOCRATS ARE
FORCING THEM TO DECIDE BETWEEN CONFIRMING GORSUCH AN
GUIDING SENATE RULES THEY ACTUALLY LIKE.
EVEN THE HUFFINGTON POST REPORTING IT THAT WAY.
THEY DON'T ACTUALLY LIKE THOSE RULES, THEY ONLY DO WHEN THEY
ARE IN THE MINORITY.
THE MINUTE THEY ARE IN THE MAJORITY, THIS IS NOT THREE
YEARS INTO A TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, THIS IS THEIR
FIRST OPPORTUNITY.
THEY WILL IMMEDIATELY DESTROY THE FILIBUSTER RULE.
COME ON, STOP HUMORING THESE REPUBLICANS AS IF THEY ARE
HONEST ACTORS AND GIVE A DAMN.
ALL THEY CARE ABOUT IS POWER.
WAKE UP THIS IS NOT A REAL DEBATE ABOUT WHETHER REPUBLICANS
ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT THE FILIBUSTER OR WHO'S FAULT IT IS.
PREPOSTEROUS.
ARE YOU MEN OR NOT?
ARE YOU GOING TO STICK WITH WHAT YOU SAID OR NOT?
NOW YOU ARE SAYING THE MINORITY PARTY IS MAKING YOU TAKE AWAY
THE FILIBUSTER?
YOU ARE ACTING OF YOUR OWN VOLITION.
FINALLY WE GO TO JOHN MCCAIN.
ARE YOU SAD JOHN?
YOU KNOW ONE THING YOU CAN DO ABOUT TAKING AWAY THE
FILIBUSTER IS DON'T TAKE IT AWAY.
ALL THAT TIME YOU PRETEND TO BE IN FAVOR OF IT WHEN YOUR ASS
WAS IN THE MINORITY.
NOW, FIRST CHANCE JOHN MCCAIN IS LIKE I AM SO SAD.
IDIOT DEMOCRATS AND IDIOT MEDIA BELIEVE ME WHEN I SAY I CARED
ABOUT THE FILIBUSTER.
JOHN MCCAIN, LINDSEY GRAHAM, YOU NEVER CARED ABOUT THE
FILIBUSTER, ALL YOU CARED ABOUT WAS YOUR OWN POWER AND YOU ARE
PROVING IT AT THE VERY FIRST OPPORTUNITY.

Schumer: Democrats WILL Filibuster Neil Gorsuch

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