Scott Walker: Republicans Should End The Filibuster For Trump Presidency

FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2015 file photo, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker speaks at a news conference in Madison, Wis., where he announced that he is suspending his Republican presidential campaign. Walker told The Assoc... FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2015 file photo, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker speaks at a news conference in Madison, Wis., where he announced that he is suspending his Republican presidential campaign. Walker told The Associated Press Tuesday, March 22, 2016, that he will decide next week who he intends to vote for the state's April 5, 2016 presidential primary and whether he will publicly endorse that person. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File) MORE LESS
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The day after voters handed Donald Trump the presidency in addition to Republican majorities in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) said the Senate should do away with the filibuster.

In an interview with WTMJ’s Charlie Sykes surfaced by CNN, Walker said he was excited for Trump’s presidency but worried about Democratic obstructionism.

“My biggest concern is that they not allow some of these arcane rules that have nothing to with the Constitution,” he said.

“So you want to see them eliminate the 60-vote filibuster rule?” Sykes asked.

“Yeah, I’ve said it last year,” Walker responded. “To me, I think that would really upset the electorate of the people who not only elected Donald Trump and Mike Pence but the people who elected Ron here and elected other members of the House and the Senate.”

“You cannot use, they cannot use inside-the-ballpark Washington procedural reason to justify why things don’t happen. They’ve got to get things done and as I said frequently here in this state and continue to, the best time to do them is early,” Walker continued.

Support for the filibuster, which allows the minority party in the Senate to obstruct the legislative process unless cloture is invoked by typically 60 senators, has often switched with control of the upper chamber.

Democrats limited Republicans’ access to the maneuver in 2013 by pushing for a vote, which ultimately succeeded 52-48, to end filibusters of certain executive and judicial nominees.

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  1. Avatar for cletus cletus says:

    I hope Democrats use the filibuster to defeat this and keep them deadlocked for the next four years, the pricks.

  2. I’m now revising my March prediction from earlier today to February.

    Also, Ewok fetuses…

    You think the white one feels persecuted solely because he’s become outnumbered or is there a history there?

  3. Avatar for tearam tearam says:

    I will never accept Drumph and will vote against any democrat that votes for GOP legislation. As a Vietnam veteran I will never come together for this cowardly draft dodger. I will pattern myself after Mitch McConnell’s attitude toward President Obama.

  4. Avatar for quax quax says:

    Koch’s water boy is a good little fascist soldier.

  5. “Walker said he was excited for Trump’s presidency but worried about Democratic obstructionism.”

    Buried that needle fucking fast, they did. Is there something beyond “chutzpah”? Because I think they just left chutzpah in the fucking dust.

    This is the shit that infuriates me enough to hope it comes to riots in the streets.

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