If Republicans Want to Keep Control, They Must End the Filibuster

John Thune’s failure to end the filibuster is the beginning of the end of America, as states like Texas and Florida will not accept being permanently under the thumb of a left-wing federal government.

First, nowhere in the Constitution will you find a word about the filibuster in which legislation can be stopped with just forty-one U.S. Senators after majority passage in the U.S. House (sixty votes ends a filibuster). Proponents of the filibuster claim it protects minority interests. Our Founding Fathers already dealt with protecting minority interests via the systems of checks and balances they created in the Constitution (thank you Scottish Philosopher David Hume and his writings on refinements—more on him below). They also passed the Bill of Rights (i.e., first ten Amendments to the Constitution) to protect minority interests. Let me ask you a serious question: which is worse—the tyranny of the majority in which a majority of Americans or a majority of their representatives support a law over a vocal minority, OR the tyranny of the minority in which a small faction can stop the majoritarian representative process?

I politely suggest to you that in modern America, it is the tyranny of the minority that poses the bigger problem. Why? Because with control of both chambers of Congress so thinly divided, a minority in one of the chambers can stop anything from passing, thereby ensuring the majority can never execute the agenda a majority of Americans voted for in the previous election. In 2024, Americans elected Donald Trump along with Republican control of the U.S. House and U.S. Senate, but, because Republicans don’t have sixty votes in the U.S. Senate, a minority of Democrat senators can bring our government to a standstill knowing lack of action gets blamed on whoever controls the White House. The federal government shutdown is proof of this issue, as a minority of Democrats refuse to vote on a continuing resolution that they all supported earlier this year because it would help Trump and Republicans.

Next, we know the Democrats will kill the filibuster once they retake control of the White House and both chambers of Congress. We know that because they already tried when Joe Biden was president. But for opposition from moderate Democrat West Virginia U.S. Senator Joe Manchin and Arizona U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema who took their headcount down to forty-nine, Democrats would have killed it and passed statehood for Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., as it gives them four new U.S. Senators; amnesty for illegal immigrants giving them ten million plus new voters; five more Supreme Court justices to pack the court in their favor to ensure whatever the passed was upheld by the judiciary; the Green New Deal to mandate economically oppressive environmental requirements; and many other far-left progressive wish list items.

So, if we know that Democrats will kill the filibuster, why in all that is holy in this world are Republicans refusing to kill it, which essentially gives the Democrats the rope with which to hang them in 2026 and 2028? Beyond the federal government shut down, the Democrats will use the filibuster to ensure that no significant Republican legislation will get passed during the Trump Presidency. They will then use that lack of action to hit Republicans during the election cycles to increase their chances of taking back Congress and the White House. In contrast, if Republicans kill the filibuster and start passing all of the legislation Trump and they campaigned on in 2024, including key economic packages and voter reforms to stop Democrat voting shenanigans, the odds of keeping control of Congress in 2026 and retaining the White House in 2028 rise substantially. In fact, Republicans could build a permanent majority or one that lasts for a decade or more in Congress if they can deliver for the American people. The filibuster shatters that possibility.

Lastly, as I’ve said again and again, Republicans have to abandon the Victorian Era mentality illustrated most recently by U.S. Senate President John Thune with his refusal to end the filibuster. We are not living in the 1980s when Ronald Reagan could have drinks with Speaker Tip O’Neill to cut a deal for Americans. We are now living in Red versus Blue America in which winning, sadly, has become a zero sum game. The Left is trying to assassinate Trump, assassinated Charlie Kirk, hails violence down on federal law enforcement on a nightly basis, and just elected a guy to Attorney General in Virginia who explicitly wanted to see Republicans and their kids killed. If our politics has become a zero sum game, which it has, then Republicans have to decide if they want to win or lose. There is no in between anymore. Keep the filibuster, Republicans lose; kill the filibuster, Republicans win. Thune better get with the program or his Senate presidency will be a very, very short one. Should he let the Democrats win by keeping the filibuster, the changes they will make once back in control by adding Democrat senators via new heavily-democrat states, giving amnesty to illegal immigrants (i.e, new Democrat voters), and packing the U.S. Supreme Court will relegate Republicans to a permanent minority. Though you may think I am doom mongering, Thune’s failure to end the filibuster could be the beginning of the end of America as we know it, as states like Texas and Florida will not accept being permanently put under the thumb of a progressive Left federalized America.

There is no longer honor among politicians, so acting like there is renders you a feckless has been of a bygone era. Kill the filibuster now to save America, or watch the progressive far-left do it in a few years on their way to turning America into a socialist shell of what it used to be.

In other news, as I’ve said repeatedly, it must be nice to be a Democrat in Washington, D.C., because you can assault law enforcement knowing that a heavily-Democrat jury will nullify the charges and let you go free. Ex-U.S. Department of Justice employee Sean Dunn admitted he threw a sandwich at a law enforcement officer, but claimed that it was merely an “exclamation point” on his First Amendment speech protesting immigration arrests. Maybe the jury would have convicted him had he thrown a brick. In stark stark contrast, any one who was within shouting distance of the Capitol on January 6, 2021, had the book thrown at them by prosecutors, had heavy-handed judges taint their trials, and had Democrat-loaded juries in D.C. convict them no matter what they did that day DESPITE THEIR PRESENCE IN D.C. FOR PROTESTS IN EXERCISE OF THEIR ACTUAL FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT!!!! Please spare me the lecture that in Democrat jurisdictions there are not two systems of justice—one for Democrats who do no wrong and one for Republicans who can do no right.

Finally, it looks like I will be proven right on another item. For years, many on the Right have claimed that the January 6 pipe-bomber was a fedsurrection intended to justify the mass arrest and incarceration of Republican protestors and to get Trump criminally. From the very beginning, I offered a different take; namely, I suggested the pipe bombs were part of a poorly timed federal-state-local exercise aimed at testing first responder response and recovery capabilities. I was the first and only person making this exercise claim. I made that suggestion based on my job at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security under George W. Bush in which I oversaw the national exercise program. I noted that the facts sounded very familiar to an exercise, including the discovery of the pipe bomb near the Republican National Committee by someone who working for a contractor doing work for the first responder network.

Blaze Media issued this news item on Thursday:

Baker, whom the Biden FBI arrested over his January 6 reporting, revealed to Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck on Wednesday that they have finally locked in on a suspect. What’s more, Baker hinted that the suspect’s imminent identification will implicate and shame at least one federal agency.

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When pressed by Beck about his confidence level in the suspect ID, Baker said, “I will tell you that from gait analysis — that’s the analysis of the hoodied bomber ... compared to the gait analysis of this individual in private life and at work — that the actual software hit at a 94% accuracy.”

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Hanneman and Baker reported last week, for instance, that the 8.5-minute video about the Jan. 6 pipe bombs released by the FBI in October contained footage edited to exclude showing a U.S. Capitol Police SUV pull up directly across the street from where the suspect stood at 8:15 p.m. on January 5, 2021.

In addition to raising suspicion about the selective edit, the investigative duo claimed that the FBI also deliberately chose not to publicly acknowledge the theory that the pipe bombs were part of a poorly timed training exercise. (Emphasis added)

More details will be coming out about this finding in the coming days and weeks, but it sounds like I was right. It won’t happen, but it would be nice if national conservative media acknowledged that I got it right and they got it wrong.

P.S. In case you missed it, listen to my powerful interview on The Bruce Hooley Show on 98.9FM The Answer from Thursday. You can hear how I use the phrase “knock off the bedwetting”:-)

P.P.S. I had the great honor to visit David Hume’s grave in Edinburgh, Scotland, on my recent trip to the United Kingdom. Most Americans have no idea who Hume is, but the Founding Fathers were greatly influenced by his writings on his Humian refinements which came out as the checks and balances in our Constitution. We owe him our thanks.