Harry Reid says that Biden should spend 'no more than three weeks' testing Republican cooperation

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

before eliminating the Senate filibuster

Former Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada said that if Joe Biden captures the White House and Democrats win control of the Senate, then the former vice president should spend "no more than three weeks" testing the waters for bipartisanship before eliminating the filibuster, according to the Associated Press.

Reid, a 30-year veteran of the Senate and for Majority Leader, said that Democrats will have big pieces of legislation that will encounter hurdles in reaching the 60 votes necessary to push through legislation.

"We should give the Republicans a little bit of time, to see if they're going to work with him," Reid said. "But the time's going to come when he's going to have to move in and get rid of the filibuster."

Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said that if Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden captures the White House and Democrats win control of the Senate, then the former vice president should spend "no more than three weeks" testing the waters for bipartisanship before eliminating the filibuster, according to the Associated Press.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/harry-reid-says-biden-spend-140702016.html

Agreed. More fulibusters from Moscow Mitch than ever before.

[C_U_L8R]

1. That's 20 days more than I'd give them.

We know who they are.

[area51]

2. +1

We all know what the nazi party will do.

[SoonerPride]

3. I agree.

Nancy can pass a slew of bills

Schumer can offer republican amendments and cooperation to make it more bipartisan

And if they stonewall then we eliminate the filibuster and make them irrelevant and pass whatever we want

[Roland99]

11. That's a full month more than *I'd* give them!

[DeminPennswoods]

24. Yep

[azureblue]

4. there will be three types of Goopers

the Trumpers who will try to destroy everything and disrupt everything
the two faced "if only we had known" backstabbers who will claim they were anti Trump
The true Republicans (all two of them), who will take responsibility and try to work with Biden

and I am sure Biden Knows who is who, and who will be trying to undermine him. He learned a lot from how the Goopers treated Obama

[yonder]

10. Agree. Biden's experience in the Senate will be valuable

with respect to not only that "who is who", but also how to get things moving again, filibuster or not.

[Renew Deal]

5. Biden needs to have a massive agenda

Ranging from health, to the economy, environment, infrastructure, and rebuilding the government (and more). There's no time for BS.

[klook]

6. I was thinking three seconds. (nt)

[uriel1972]

7. blah that long? too kind... nt

[jmowreader]

8. Three weeks is three weeks too long

The GOP are already planning out how to destroy the Biden presidency. They will put their plans into action as soon as he crosses the 270-EV line. We have to be prepared to kill the filibuster on January 6 - the first day of the new Congress. The filibuster was intended to stop BAD legislation from going forward, not to allow the GOP to control the Senate whether they're in the majority or not.

[moonscape]

9. Wish Reid was there to be Majority leader n/t

[ffr]

12. If this was in the context of a discussion about Jupiter, I'd agree.

8.75 Earth days, the move on. In fact, I'd count down to the hour. Times up!

[Takket]

13. if we take the white house and senate......

the american people will have given him the mandate to run the country as the Democrats see fit. that includes adding justices to the court to assert the majority left leaning rule of the court that the people demand.

[lagomorph777]

15. +1 Unpack the courts, starting with SCROTUS.

[lagomorph777]

14. I wouldn't waste three seconds on that. They've shown us who they are.

Reptilians can sit down and shut up.

[Drum]

17. 👆👆👆

[crickets]

16. COVID relief will be the first test. Any sort of whining and foot dragging about it, and it's over.

Screw a timetable. Just shove back right away and make it plain that the bully games will not continue. Done.

[Volaris]

19. Yep one WHISPER about 'socialist tyranny' and the nuke goes off.

The elected GOP should have one chance to NOT get to sit and watch, and the bargaining chip can be
:you behave as a responsible minority, and we WONT consider mandatory voting and a 80% Debt Tax on the top half a percent.

It needs to be made clear to them in no uncertain terms that it CAN get worse.

[Xolodno]

18. I'd put it a different way.

If Biden so much gets a fart indicating they will stonewall, then scorched earth it is. They started this, we will finish it. Come back to the table when they start showing decency, honesty, honor, etc.

[TeamPooka]

20. 1 week to show good faith or give them a 1st 100 days they will remember for the rest of their lives

[roamer65]

21. If we take the Senate it means we have the MANDATE for it.

Just do it.

[Mike Niendorff]

22. Ridiculous.

That's 3 weeks too much.

Give them nothing.


MDN

[Liberal In Texas]

23. We need to waste no time in undoing the damage they've done the last 4 years.

3 weeks is too much of a concession to them.

[BSdetect]

25. Expect nothing from them and let them expire with no mercy

[BSdetect]

26. Joe should use this O[ Ed from the NYTimes as his tyardstick

..The Republican Party can’t win using ordinary methods. On the process side, they can win only by inflating the white vote via gerrymandering, cracked-and-packed districts, and ruthless black voter suppression. On the policy side, they can win only with heavy dollops of strident and outright bigotry against Mexicans, Muslims, blacks, Hispanics, Chinese, and anyone else who comes along. Even Canadians will do in a pinch.

Today, the Republican Party exists for one and only one purpose: to pass tax cuts for the rich and regulatory rollbacks for corporations. They accomplish this using one and only method: unapologetically racist and bigoted appeals to win the votes of the heartland riff-raff they otherwise treat as mere money machines for their endless mail-order cons.

Like it or not, this is the modern Republican Party. It no longer serves any legitimate purpose. It needs to be crushed and the earth salted behind it, while a new conservative party rises to take its place…


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/24/opinion/sunday/trump-republican-party.html
via: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/25/1989406/-Must-Read-NY-Times-Obituary?utm_campaign=trending

[pecosbob]

27. This will be a majority fifty years in the making

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People are tired of having their vote suppressed and they're acting like it. This election is about a lot more than passing budget-resolutions or confirming future judicial nominations. This election is about ending the one percent's stranglehold on the country and the financialization of our economy that began in the 1960s. Fifty trillion sits in off-shore tax havens and our infrastructure collapses around us. The British economy was custom-tailored to promote money-laundering after the retreat West of Suez. Nixon's State Department had Wall Street open up it's arms to the world's criminals through Caribbean banks to prop up the dollar at the end of the sixties. Mossack-Fonseca was just a glimpse of what we are up against and the logical extension of decades of deregulation. Eighty percent of Sub-Saharan Africa's GNP is stolen by it's rulers and hidden. This election HAS to be about leveling the playing field, or it's about nothing at all.

[aidbo]

28. If the situation was reversed, the republicans wouldn't even bother 'testing the waters'