The U.S. Senate has a 52 Republican majority that can get a conservative agenda through the Senate, but 30 of these Senators have declared they support the obstruction of Democrats. These 30 establishment Republican senators oppose putting an end to the ongoing obstruction of Democrat's legislative filibuster. As U.S. Representative Trent Franks (R-AZ) recently said, "It is time for America to abolish the 60-vote Senate rule" to end the filibuster.
Urge your senators to end Democratic obstruction and end the legislative filibuster.
In fact, they signed on to a letter authored by Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) and Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) sent to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), stating they are "opposing any effort to curtail the existing rights and prerogatives (including the 60 rule vote to end the Democrat filibuster) of Senators to engage in full, robust, and extended debate as we (the Senate) consider legislation before the body in the future." Sen. McConnell agrees with them.
Regarding the letter, Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) noted that "Democrats want the Senate to work, and we are willing to partner with our colleagues across the aisle if we can get things done for the American people. We have a long way to go to heal the wounds between our two parties, but this letter is a small first step towards that important goal." (Emphasis added.)
These 30 Senate Republicans, by refusing to stop the Democratic filibuster, want to allow the ongoing obstruction of Democrats in the name of "healing." Conservative Republicans know that Democrats will not cross the aisle to help pass a conservative agenda.
Democrats oppose a conservative agenda that includes repealing Obamacare, funding the border wall, defunding sanctuary cities, passing Kate's Law, defunding Planned Parenthood, and applying the Hyde Amendment to ensure federal tax dollars do not fund abortion.
Senate Democrats have been obstructionists to a conservative agenda. Sen. Coons' statement that Democrats "are willing to partner with our colleagues (Republicans) across the aisle if we can get things done for the American people" is political posturing and an empty promise to pass conservative legislation. Keeping the filibuster is nothing more than a mechanism for Democrats and liberal Republicans to further capitulate to the left. This is not by accident, but by design.
Tell your senators to end Democratic obstruction and end the legislative filibuster.
