Sen. Ron Johnson sees it as a kind of golden rule in dealing with nasty Dem politics: Do unto others before they do unto you.
To save the SAVE America Act the Republican-controlled Senate must blow up the filibuster, two conservative senators tell The Federalist.
The very thought makes most members of the Senate GOP conference weak in the knees, fearing what Democrats would do without the iron line of a 60-vote threshold to move legislation forward. Senators Rick Scott of Florida and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin aren’t in that camp.
Johnson sees it as a kind of golden rule in recognizing that Democrats have no ceiling when it comes to nasty politics. So, do unto others before they do unto you.
“Again, I don’t know how much more broken the United States Senate could be before my colleagues kind of wake up, smell the roses and go, ‘Yeah, we better act before they do,’” Wisconsin’s senior senator told me recently on a The Benjamin Yount Show on WISN in Milwaukee.
Johnson and his like-minded colleagues believe you go big or go home, and republic-saving election reform package is worth nuking the “silent filibuster” — the deliberative Senate’s bill kill switch.
‘We Have to Get Rid of the Filibuster’
Congress returns to work next week after its extended spring break, and the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or SAVE America Act, awaits more fruitless debate. Democrats aren’t budging on the bill that requires documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections and photo identification to cast a ballot. They have made ludicrous claims that the SAVE America Act will disenfranchise millions of voters who apparently are completely helpless in obtaining an ID to vote while they use ID for just about everything else. Cyndi Lauper says it’s so.
“It’s me, Cyndi. Don’t be fooled. The SAVE Act is not about protecting against voter fraud — it’s about voter suppression. Congress is trying to pass the SAVE Act to make it harder to vote, especially for millions of women,” the irrelevant 1980s pop star said in an Instagram video. “First, they come after our right to control our bodies, and now they’re coming after our right to vote. So, we must stop them,” she declared. In other words, Girls Just Want to Have Fun and they can’t do that under the weight of election integrity laws.
Perhaps Lauper was “She Bopping” too much to figure out that Democrats just really wanna have noncitizens and other ineligible liberals vote in federal elections. Senate Democrats couldn’t even be bothered to pass an amended, stripped-down version of the SAVE Act that contained only the voter ID provision — despite lying that they support voter ID.
They are among the minority of Americans that don’t back the core elements of the election-integrity measures, among the endangered 80-20 issues in the deeply divided United States.
Scott said he’s fed up with the Dems’ intransigence.
“I think we have to get rid of the filibuster because I don’t think the Democrats are going to come along,” the Florida Republican told me on the latest edition of The Federalist Radio Hour podcast, set for release Friday.