After some long and hard thought, I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that the US Senate needs to suspend the filibuster until after the 2026 election, and then reestablish it as the last action before the Senate adjourns for this session.
It took me several days and several discussions with others whom I respect to come to this conclusion. My original thought was to leave the filibuster in place and continue to push back on Democrats. I had hoped that Democrats would eventually be blamed for punishing Americans by withholding necessary payments for some government employees and by refusing to get anything else done in the meantime.
I had considered whether Democrat demands for over $1.4 trillion dollars in expenditures would finally be called what it is: blackmail in disguise. And whether Democrats were using their tried-and-true intimidation and political pressure tactics on Republicans, knowing that Republicans are famous for collapsing and whimpering as they crawl away.
I wondered whether Republicans had the intestinal fortitude to withstand Democrat and media attacks which blamed them, Republicans, for the shutdown. I wondered whether the mainstream media would finally tell the American public that it takes 60 votes in the Senate to end debate before a call for a vote (a procedure named “cloture”).
I wondered whether Democrats and their media accomplices would publicly admit that Republicans do not control the Senate with the filibuster rule in place, and whether ordinary Americans, hypnotized by games and TikTok videos on their phones, would remember how our federal government works… if they had ever been taught it in the first place.
So I contacted several people whom I respect to ask their opinions. Some felt the same way I originally did: the filibuster rules are in place to allow a minority party to force discussion on difficult subjects so that decisions would not be made lightly or in a partisan manner.
Others felt that the filibuster rules should be “nuked” to allow unfettered passage of bills whether the minority supported them or not, and that “this situation is different” because of the hatred of one individual in specific – who happens to be the President of the United States – and because that hatred has blinded some Senators to their duty to this country.
And a couple felt that the President should get whatever he wants. I couldn’t agree with them: the President executes the laws but should not invent laws. He has the ability to write executive orders to describe how his administration implements the laws passed by Congress.
Hence my quandary: should I support the continued ability of the minority party to force discussion of important legislation, or should I support the elimination of the filibuster and then allow the majority party to run roughshod over their political opponents?
But then I remembered that much of the current discussions are about funding bills that were passed without any votes from the minority, and that many of those bills now need additional funding just to work “as designed”. I considered whether the PPACA was really meant to be “affordable” or to merely be a bridge to eliminate any medical insurance other than a government-based single-payer plan.
Then I thought about Medicaid and Social Security, and how those programs had been expanded to cover people who did not qualify under those programs’ original rules. And then how the funding mechanism for those programs had become insufficient because of fraud identified by DOGE and how changes to eliminate that fraud had been fought by Democrats.
Then I thought about USAID and how much money in “foreign aid” was being sent to overseas “NGOs” whose sole purpose was to assist in the dismantling of the United States as a constitutional republic. And how the US government was funding programs that, once revealed to the American public, were embarrassing and inexplicable.
Then I considered whether any government payments from any government-based assistance should be made to anyone who is not a US citizen. I also remembered the paperwork I had to sign when bringing my fiancee to the US from overseas, and how that paperwork required that I sign under oath that she would not become a financial burden to the United States.
So, finally, I have come to the conclusion that, in this political climate and for the reasons of reducing the amount of money the federal government distributes to non-citizens regardless of need, and that a wholesale reevaluation of the federal government is needed along with the elimination of several federal departments without a legitimate ROI, that the current US Senate must eliminate the filibuster for this session of Congress. Democrats have proven that they are unwilling to help make the changes necessary for the survival of the Republic, and so any Democrat “speed bumps” must be eliminated.
I make this decision knowing that there is always a chance that a Republican Congress can overstep its bounds. However, I also know that the Democrats have overstepped those boundaries, and that too many of today’s financial and legislative problems were caused Democrats’ avaricious desire for power at any cost.
It is time for the Democrat party’s ability to interfere with the workings of government to be eliminated… at least for now. Thus, it is time to suspend the Senate filibuster rules for this session of Congress.
