GOP Will Overturn Filibuster to Impose National Abortionban

Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Michael Steele, the former head of the Republican National Committee, slammed the GOP in its current form and suggested that it was prepared to push aside Senate rules and impose a national abortion ban if it retakes Congress in the November midterms.

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In a Monday interview with MSNBC, Steele was asked by host Katy Tur if the GOP would seek to enact further restrictions on abortion in the wake of last week's Supreme Court ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade, ending the constitutional right to an abortion.

Tur asked: "Sen. Chris Murphy said that if Republicans are able to retake the House and Senate, they will pass a federal ban on abortion. Do believe that would happen."

"Yes. Without hesitation. They will set the marker," Steele replied.

"Because it's in their base's interest to do so," he said. "That's the difference politically between the two parties. Republicans will go, 'oh, yeah, the Constitution and the filibuster, all the tradition, the sanctity of the Senate.' They don't give a rat's patootie about that when it's the bottom line in politics and power."

"So absolutely, a national ban on abortion will be one of the first pieces of legislation probably next to impeaching Joe Biden," he said, without providing evidence for his claim that the GOP would seek to impeach Biden.

#1 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2022-06-28 11:22 PM | Reply

Good, it's time Americans get what they vote for.

Perhaps once the public sees what Republicans actually stand for, making raped women and girls bear their attacker's babies and dying from forced pregnancy, they'll get a clue.

Make sure you vote Jill Stein in 2024 folks. You want to send a message to the Dems. Who cares how many innocent people suffer as a result.

#2 | Posted by censored at 2022-06-28 11:31 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

#2 If you are serious about stein, go get some therapy.

If you are one of those "vote blue no matter who" morons that got us into this mess; please realize you sound like a complete moron comparing progressives that the democratic base actually supports with that compromised hack from the meme party.

#3 | Posted by IndianaJones at 2022-06-28 11:36 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

...it was prepared to push aside Senate rules and impose a national abortion ban if it retakes Congress in the November midterms.

I have no doubt that they would if they could veto-proof it.

#4 | Posted by REDIAL at 2022-06-28 11:49 PM | Reply

When McConnell will be asked about it, he will state that it long outdated and was never part of the Constitution and when the GOP becomes the minority party they will whine about the filibuster being killed.

#5 | Posted by Nixon at 2022-06-29 07:44 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

If you are one of those "vote blue no matter who" morons that got us into this mess
Yeah, I'm the one who got us into this mess. Not the folks who have thrown two presidential elections to Repubs in the last 20 years by voting Green.

please realize you sound like a complete moron comparing progressives that the democratic base actually supports with that compromised hack from the meme party. #3 | Posted by IndianaJones
Wut?

#6 | Posted by censored at 2022-06-29 08:03 AM | Reply | Funny: 2

... GOP Will Overturn Filibuster ...

My concern, that I've previously noted, is that the Republicans may not have to overturn the filibuster, and may also have a veto-proof majority come January 2023.

#7 | Posted by lamplighter at 2022-06-29 12:16 PM | Reply

"...may also have a veto-proof majority come January 2023."

Republicans are too busy "Todd Akin-ing" themselves.

Dr. Oz? Eric Greitens?? Hershell Walker???

#8 | Posted by Danforth at 2022-06-29 12:18 PM | Reply

"Republicans may not have to overturn the filibuster, and may also have a veto-proof majority come January 2023."

When that happens, we will finally hear Ross Perot's great sucking sound of jobs leaving America.

Except it will be top tier jobs and companies. I'm secretly optimistic I can get the New Zealand gig.

#9 | Posted by snoofy at 2022-06-29 12:20 PM | Reply

#6 | POSTED BY CENSORED

Yeah, you're one those rightwing democrats that did everything you could to elect trump. God forbid a progressive lead your party, huh?

#10 | Posted by IndianaJones at 2022-06-29 12:26 PM | Reply

I don't remember who it was, but some winger on another thread said recently "you guys deserved Trump". Referring to Democrats. I actually think I agree with that. Maybe Dems didn't deserve Trump so much as deserved a kick in the collective --- to get their collective ---- together. Because while the Dems cliques are still fighting each other on the playground the Reps are running away with the ball. And if the Dems don't get focused and put together a coordinated fight, with this SC the Reps could have this country FUBAR in 10 years.

#11 | Posted by El_Buscador at 2022-06-29 01:03 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Well, then use your freaking majority you have today to legalize abortions before your power runs out. I mean, solutions are sometimes so simple that those blinded by partisan hate can't even see them.

But either way, at least he's admitting that Reps will follow the Constitution to pass legislation. Dems haven't. Which is why Dems have been fighting the wrong fight. They should be fighting to change the Constitution so that the Federal government has ultimate control over everything. Whether or not someone agrees they should, that is how our government is built and has been since day 1. Don't like it? The Constitution also provides the ability to make changes. So fight the right battle instead of whining and crying like babies that weren't aborted.

#12 | Posted by humtake at 2022-06-29 01:04 PM | Reply

#12 | Posted by humtake

Everyone knows what you'd be posting if dems killed the fillibuster to legalize abortion.

If our government represented the will of the country that wouldnt be a problem. But our government is a perverted system where the dakotas have 1.5 million people and get 4 senators, while california has 40 million and gets 2.

#13 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2022-06-29 01:10 PM | Reply

#11 | POSTED BY EL_BUSCADOR

I hate how whenever a democrat is criticized; people swarm in to ask why you would support republicans.

Are they really so impressionable that they think rational people would vote for a republican? It's as if their entire platform right now is "give us power or we will feed you to the trump cult."

Blackmail the Base; finally a bumper-sticker friendly catchphrase for the DNC.

#14 | Posted by IndianaJones at 2022-06-29 01:15 PM | Reply

#6 | POSTED BY CENSORED Yeah, you're one those rightwing democrats that did everything you could to elect trump. God forbid a progressive lead your party, huh? #10 | Posted by IndianaJones

Actually I would have voted for anyone who wasn't Trump, even the old Jewish, atheist, socialist. Best of luck selling that to the rest of the country, though.

Vote Blue no matter who? Yeah, cause we see what throwing a tantrum and sitting out elections gets you. "United we stand" applies to progressives too. Enjoy the corollary to that, "divided we fall," as SCOTUS spends the next 30 to 60 years dismantling every last bit of progressive legislation this country has passed since The Great Depression.

#15 | Posted by censored at 2022-06-29 01:22 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

"United we stand" applies to progressives too."

History shows the democrats don't believe that.

Progressives do "vote blue no matter who" in the end. Democrats don't. That's why they cheat to force their corporate candidates onto their base.

Unfortunately democrats like you have been so quick to accuse everyone except your own elected officials in the wake of this unsurprising repeal of Roe that it is clear you are doomed to repeat the same mistakes again and again. A sure sign of insanity.

"we see what throwing a tantrum and sitting out elections gets you."

Nice meme but that never happened. Thanks to progressives actually giving a ---- about what happens to this country, hillary won the popular vote. Unfortunately 30 years of democrats like her moving the party leadership further and further right failed to protect the integrity of our elections. We see what a tantrum about an imagined lineage of dynastic control of a party gets you.

A million dead Americans in a pandemic and the systemic reduction of human rights with the threat of outright fascism just ahead of us. Progressives didn't aid this. The DNC and the corporate minority of its voting base did. Own this.

#16 | Posted by IndianaJones at 2022-06-29 01:33 PM | Reply

#14

I will never go back to the R's while they are the theocracy party, but the Dems don't have my unconditional allegiance. Why was Biden nominated and elected? Because he wasn't Trump. There's a D president, a D House, and a tie Senate with a D VP tiebreaker. And meanwhile the R's keep getting wins. What are the Dems doing about it? What good things have Dem's accomplished in the last 20 years? The ACA? It was a start, but didn't really do a lot. Dems have had plenty of opportunity to expound on it but can't even improve the one --------- thing they did accomplish. This party has got to get it together if it wants to stay relevant.

#17 | Posted by El_Buscador at 2022-06-29 01:34 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

#17 | Posted by El_Buscador

All dems have going is CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL AND WE SHOULD DO SOMETHING and WE'RE NOT THE FASCISTS WHO TRIED TO END DEMOCRACY.

They're weak. They're cowardly. They're stupid. They're obsessed with identity politics. They don't lead like republicans do. Repubs lead their moron followers to the (false) beliefs they want them to vote based on. Dems just take surveys and try to please different tiny slices of minority groups.

Look at how much support bernie got. He's a cranky old man. If some young charismatic person took up his same agenda they'd win. But dems are too stupid and addicted to corporate cash to do it.

#18 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2022-06-29 02:08 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

You hit it, Speak. Leadership. Call the R's whatever you want, disagree with their policies all you want, hate their ties to organized religion all you want, they are organized and they have strong effective leadership. I'm not calling any of them good people, but Trump led effectively, DeSantis is leading effectively, Noem is leading effectively. I think Trump might be done. But I predict a DeSantis/Noem R ticket in 24 and I think they'll be very hard to beat. Especially if Russia v. Ukraine is resolved soon, gas prices go down, the global supply chain works itself out in the next year, and inflation subsides about the time the midterms bring a slew of R's to Congress. You know the R's will take credit for 'fixing the economy". And our ADD nation will have forgotten everything else.

#19 | Posted by El_Buscador at 2022-06-29 03:03 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Progressives didn't aid this. The DNC and the corporate minority of its voting base did. Own this. #16 | Posted by IndianaJones

Umm, Bernie Bros and Green party voters (in two elections) beg to differ.

Anywho, nothing for me to own. I didn't even like Hillary, but I still voted for her, cause what else was I going to do?

Popular vote doesn't mean squat in our system. Trump won the electoral college in 2016 by almost the exact same number that Biden won in 2020, about 90K votes. Trash talking the only candidate that could have stopped Trump's win after the nomination served no one except Trump. So you own it if you want, or don't.

It's all pretty funny to me at this point. "Oh boohoo! I'm a liberal and SCOTUS is going to destroy our hopes and dreams. Let me attack the only party that could have stopped them in the past or could stop them in the future!"

#20 | Posted by censored at 2022-06-29 04:54 PM | Reply

#20 | Posted by censored

The DNC reads that and hears "we dont have to change! they accept that they have no other choice!"

When what they need to hear is - "we are so disliked that our best candidate got beat by donald trump. And it would have happened twice if a worldwide pandemic hadn't appeared out of nowhere to highlight his incompetence. maybe we should try something different."

#21 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2022-06-29 05:13 PM | Reply

So primary them, just like the Repubs did as they chased out their moderate voices. But at the end of the day, come back and vote for the more reasonable alternative instead of staying at home pouting or throwing away a vote on a party that has no chance of winning.

#22 | Posted by censored at 2022-06-29 05:29 PM | Reply

"Bernie Bros and Green party"

Lmao. Internet trolls that don't live in the US and PETA morons that fell for a russian-backed grifter.

Corporate Democrats are so desperate to point the blame at anyone else.

If you think your candidate is best, why do you have to cheat and blackmail to elect it?

#23 | Posted by IndianaJones at 2022-06-29 05:29 PM | Reply

Censored & Danforth; if your plan to defeat trump really centered on attracting out of country trolls and green party lifers that can't and won't vote for a democrat; you never had a winning candidate.

The base told you this, but it was Her! turn.

#24 | Posted by IndianaJones at 2022-06-29 05:31 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

" ... you never had a winning candidate."

Independents usually don't.

That said, if you Democrats want to lose spectacularly, nominate Bernie.

#25 | Posted by Danforth at 2022-06-29 05:35 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

That said, if you Democrats want to lose spectacularly, nominate Bernie.

#25 | POSTED BY DANFORTH

Put it up to a fair vote. No DWS. No "time-travelling superdelegates".

What are you corporate dems so afraid of?

#26 | Posted by IndianaJones at 2022-06-29 05:43 PM | Reply

" What are you corporate dems so afraid of?"

You'll have to ask corporate Dems.

Personally, I like Bernie, but the easiest job in politics would be mounting a national campaign against an old guy who uses the word Socialist in describing himself and who wants to jack up everyone's taxes.

#27 | Posted by Danforth at 2022-06-29 05:50 PM | Reply

The GOP would overturn the filibuster to impose a national abortion ban if it wins the midterms

I have to call -------- on that one. There's no appetite for a national abortion ban"even among the base. It's been kicked back to the states where it belongs.

There are far more important things to worry about ... .like politically destroying a major party that has basically lost its mind and gone full Communist.

#28 | Posted by Mao_Content at 2022-06-29 05:58 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

#27 you have to be in a very specific bubble of corporate DNC influence to believe that.

Are you sure you aren't a Clinton democrat? Your projected fear of the word "socialist" makes you seem like one. It isn't the 1980s and the politics and economics of 40 years ago don't work today. The sooner people like you stop defending politicians that believe it is, the faster we can actually fix this country.

The largest voting blocs are not fooled by punditry and attack ads like boomers. The fact that you think the base can be tricked so easily is kind of exactly why the DNC insiders dupe people like you into electing right wingers with a (D) next to their name.

Great tactic though; tell your base they are stupid and will probably fall for GOP and corporate meme ads.

#29 | Posted by IndianaJones at 2022-06-29 05:59 PM | Reply

#28 You guys are more full nazi than commie; although I imagine many people will starve to death if you gain any more power.

#30 | Posted by IndianaJones at 2022-06-29 06:00 PM | Reply

" Are you sure you aren't a Clinton democrat?"

Are you sure you understand the basic concepts of math? Your posting history doesn't suggest as much.

Tell us: would Communist Bernie have won Wisconsin? I'm just trying to see how deep the willful ignorance goes.

#31 | Posted by Danforth at 2022-06-29 06:02 PM | Reply

I have to call -------- on that one. There's no appetite for a national abortion ban"even among the base. It's been kicked back to the states where it belongs.

There are far more important things to worry about ... .like politically destroying a major party that has basically lost its mind and gone full Communist.

#28 | Posted by Mao_Content

Every fool who says republicans would never _______, is eventually proven wrong.

The party that lost it's mind is the one that threw away all their values to become the slavish cult of the worlds most obvious con man, and then tried to overthrow democracy. You can't deny a word of it, so all you can do is point to the other side and say "COMMUNISM!" without a shred of evidence.

#32 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2022-06-29 06:38 PM | Reply

" There's no appetite for a national abortion ban"even among the base. "

Why would Republican leaders give AF about their base? They don't now, and can still rely on their vote.

Basically, Republicans realized they could win with the moral majority ... and now realize they can't without.

#33 | Posted by Danforth at 2022-06-29 06:44 PM | Reply

" point to the other side and say "COMMUNISM!" without a shred of evidence."

Oh please, Republicans don't have evidence for their math; who expects them to have evidence for any other claim?

#34 | Posted by Danforth at 2022-06-29 06:59 PM | Reply

#34 Danfroth, you think Bernie is a communist?

FFS, just add the "conservative" flair to your profile already, you blueMAGA fascist.

You aren't fooling anyone. You are about as liberal as boaz is black.

#35 | Posted by IndianaJones at 2022-06-29 08:59 PM | Reply

Indiana, you're out of touch if you think the old, Jewish, socialist, atheist had a chance to win an election that Biden barely won by 90K votes. You should try to get out of your bubble once in a while.

#36 | Posted by censored at 2022-06-29 09:26 PM | Reply

If we the majority want abortion, why can't we have it?

Is this DEMOCRACY a sham?

#37 | Posted by fresno500 at 2022-06-29 11:45 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Is this DEMOCRACY a sham?

Ask Boaz.

#38 | Posted by REDIAL at 2022-06-29 11:48 PM | Reply

If we the majority want abortion, why can't we have it?

Because you're butchering innocent children, ---------.

#39 | Posted by Mao_Content at 2022-06-29 11:49 PM | Reply

You prolly need to read up on how this whole Constitutional Republic thing works

#40 | Posted by Mao_Content at 2022-06-29 11:51 PM | Reply

A serious push to eliminate the legislative filibuster is a Dem thing.

#41 | Posted by BellRinger at 2022-06-29 11:52 PM | Reply

"A serious push to eliminate the legislative filibuster is a Dem thing."
~Bellringer, signaling he's not interested in a serious discussion

#42 | Posted by Danforth at 2022-06-30 12:02 AM | Reply

If only the peaceful transfer of power after the states certify the ballots were also an important part of the Constitution.

#43 | Posted by Corky at 2022-06-30 12:10 AM | Reply

#42. You are really into projection this evening.

#44 | Posted by BellRinger at 2022-06-30 12:15 AM | Reply

#42

He's relaying the gospel truth. Are you THAT dense?

Manchin and Sinema are pariahs because they won't eliminate the filibuster. McConnell refused to do it when he could.

#45 | Posted by willowby at 2022-06-30 12:35 AM | Reply

#45. Yes. In 2017 Senate Democrats introduced a resolution affirming Senate traditions including the filibuster. This was when the GOP was in the Majority, yet 17 Republicans signed on. In 2021, with a 50/50 tie Dems made a huge push to eliminate the filibuster even to a point where activists chased Sinema with into a restroom and filmed her while she was urinating.

Danforth pretends none of that ever happened.

#46 | Posted by BellRinger at 2022-06-30 12:43 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Neither of you morons believe McConnell will honor the filibuster.

#47 | Posted by Danforth at 2022-06-30 12:43 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"pretends none of that ever happened."

Remind me why McConnell made a rule, then broke his rule.

#48 | Posted by Danforth at 2022-06-30 12:45 AM | Reply

Because you're butchering innocent children, ---------.

#39 | Posted by Mao_Content

They're not children, they're unconscious parasitic organisms. And they ruin people's lives, cost society a fortune, and raise crime rates. And make traffic worse.

You dont give a ---- about innocent children when it comes to schools or healthcare or toxic chemicals in their community or shootings in their schools. Dont pretend you give a ---- when they're not even independently viable to live yet and nothing has been invested in them.

#49 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2022-06-30 12:48 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

You prolly need to read up on how this whole Constitutional Republic thing works

#40 | Posted by Mao_Content

Here's the cliff's notes: A bunch of powerful rich people wrote rules that allowed them to attain and keep more power and money than everyone else. The end.

40 million californias have 2 senators and the 1.5 million dakota dwellers have 4. The person with the most votes loses the presidency. This is the level of political perversion repubs have to defend to maintain power.

#50 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2022-06-30 12:51 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Yeah... I vote straight Democrat ticket. The current crowd can't get the job done. I am voting straight Republican ticket next time. If the Democrats have to sit the next one out, they may learn the time to stop playing nice has arrived. If the Republicans win we won't have a republic, and if the Democrats win in their current form, we won't have a republic. If you had to pick between a bad mechanic and a poor mechanic, which would you pick? They both have to go.

#51 | Posted by iloveyou at 2022-06-30 01:01 AM | Reply | Funny: 2

#50. 20 million Texans have two GOP senators and 1 million Rhode Island residents have two Dem senators.

Go watch SchoolHouse Rock

We have a divided government BY DESIGN. By 2025 you will LOVE all of the impediments to straight majority rule when you likely find your representation in a serious minority.

#52 | Posted by BellRinger at 2022-06-30 01:02 AM | Reply

" You dont give a ---- about innocent children when it comes to schools or healthcare or toxic chemicals in their community or shootings in their schools. Dont pretend you give a ---- when they're not even independently viable to live yet and nothing has been invested in them"

That's a giant, insipid straw man.

#53 | Posted by BellRinger at 2022-06-30 01:04 AM | Reply

" They're not children, they're unconscious parasitic organisms. And they ruin people's lives, cost society a fortune, and raise crime rates. And make traffic worse."

PLEASE do not procreate.

#54 | Posted by BellRinger at 2022-06-30 01:05 AM | Reply

"If the Republicans win we won't have a republic"

You just said you're voting FOR that.

#55 | Posted by Danforth at 2022-06-30 01:19 AM | Reply

What's the difference? If the Democrats win we won't have a republic. The time for mediocrity has ended.

#56 | Posted by iloveyou at 2022-06-30 01:25 AM | Reply

A bunch of powerful rich people wrote rules that allowed them to attain and keep more power and money than everyone else.

What rules?

#57 | Posted by Mao_Content at 2022-06-30 01:36 AM | Reply

They're not children, they're unconscious parasitic organisms. And they ruin people's lives, cost society a fortune, and raise crime rates. And make traffic worse.

Lol.

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-----, you are the model Democrat.

Don't stop doing what you're doing :)

#58 | Posted by Mao_Content at 2022-06-30 01:42 AM | Reply

"What rules?"

The US Tax Code.

GRATs, Carried Interest, inheritance rules, bonus depreciation, stepped-up basis...

...need I go on?

#59 | Posted by Danforth at 2022-06-30 01:43 AM | Reply

#47

He already did when Trump wanted it eliminated. He's been around long enough to realize how tenuous a majority can be.

#60 | Posted by willowby at 2022-06-30 02:04 AM | Reply

" Neither of you morons believe McConnell will honor the filibuster.

#47 | POSTED BY DANFORTH AT 2022-06-30 12:43 AM | FLAG: | NEWSWORTHY 1"

He's always defended the legislative filibuster. He pushed the SCOTUS elimination in response to Reid eliminating it on ALL other appointments. McConnell is a snake but he's had ample opportunities to eliminate it for short term gain and has never done so. He's never even entertained the notion.

#61 | Posted by BellRinger at 2022-06-30 02:11 AM | Reply

I have to call -------- on that one. There's no appetite for a national abortion ban"even among the base. It's been kicked back to the states where it belongs.

There are far more important things to worry about ... .like politically destroying a major party that has basically lost its mind and gone full Communist.

#28 | Posted by Mao_Content

1) You don't know and you don't care what a communist is.

2) You really don't know and you really don't care what a fascist is.

3) The current wave of fascism makes a national ban on abortion almost certain.

4) For a smart man, you're not very bright.

#62 | Posted by Zed at 2022-06-30 08:17 AM | Reply

We have a divided government BY DESIGN. By 2025 you will LOVE all of the impediments to straight majority rule when you likely find your representation in a serious minority.

#52 | Posted by BellRinger

yeah as I said - designed by the rich and powerful to keep themselves in that position and keep everyone else down.

Those protections dems will benefit from in 2025 wouldnt be necessary if the entire system were rigged for plutocrats.

#63 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2022-06-30 01:09 PM | Reply

-----, you are the model Democrat.

Don't stop doing what you're doing :)

#58 | Posted by Mao_Content

And you're the republican model - obsessed with caring for nonviable organisms before theyre born, then making their lives miserable to impossible the moment they take their first breath of air.

#64 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2022-06-30 01:11 PM | Reply

That's a giant, insipid straw man.

#53 | Posted by BellRinger

When you can't refute it, just call it a strawman.

#65 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2022-06-30 01:13 PM | Reply

"And you're the republican model - obsessed with caring for nonviable organisms before theyre born, then making their lives miserable to impossible the moment they take their first breath of air."

Their fetish for masochism has been baked in from the start.

#66 | Posted by Hagbard_celine at 2022-06-30 01:23 PM | Reply

They are misogynistic pigs that's all.

#67 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2022-06-30 01:25 PM | Reply

I'm secretly optimistic I can get the New Zealand gig.

#9 | Posted by snoofy

I am too. We need to get idiots like you out of the country. :)

#68 | Posted by boaz at 2022-07-01 10:04 AM | Reply

Please start the GoFundMe.

Happy to leave this country once Republicans put an end to democracy.

#69 | Posted by snoofy at 2022-07-01 10:21 AM | Reply