No appeasement goes unpunished.
The Senate GOP decided to respond to racists and radicals burning and looting their way across the country, and occasionally setting up separatist states, by trying to appease them with an anti-police bill. Now the Democrats are threatening to filibuster it because it doesn’t go far enough leaving the GOP with the agonizing challenge of figuring out how to pass a bill that gives the Dems only 10% of what they want, but doesn’t actually abolish the police or turn over every city to Warlord Raz.
This is like a guy trying to convince a mugger to take his wallet, but leave his car.
Senate Democrats are strongly signaling they will filibuster Republicans’ police reform bill later this week absent more concessions from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
The Kentucky Republican set the Senate on a path to consider the legislation on Wednesday and must lure at least seven Democrats to support even opening debate on a GOP bill written without any Democratic input. So far, few Democrats have expressed any interest.
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