Mitch McConnell described as a hypocrite for the defense of filibuster

The Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, who wrote an opinion piece in the The New York Times Thursday, warning Democrats against the assassination of the Senate obstruction, which requires a threshold of 60 votes, has been criticized for its "arson, lamenting the fire that it has unleashed" .

"Legislative flibustice is directly downstream from our founding tradition, and if this tradition thwarts the whims of the far left, it is their half-cooked proposals and not secular wisdom that must be reorganized," McConnell wrote. "No Republican has trouble figuring out the exhaustive list of socialist policies that 51 Democratic senators would be happy to inflict on Central America in an unobstructed Senate."

The answer was quick. Progressive groups quickly pointed out what they saw as hypocrisy between McConnell's words and his actions as a long-time pillar of the Senate.

"What was once a tool rarely used to protect the rights of the minority has become, in the hands of McConnell, a unique method to clog the agenda of a president elected by the people." McConnell said. warns "Democrats not to tamper Stasha Rhodes, campaigning for a 51-based organization for 51 people seeking a Senate vote in Washington DC, wrote in a statement Thursday.

McConnell is "an arsonist, lamenting the fire that he started," she said. "Supporting the buccaneer is the bad lesson from McConnell's reign at the head of the Republican senators."

Several Democratic candidates have suggested that they would be ready to end the rule, including Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, who recently said "everything stays on the table".

Speaking at the Iowa State Fair last week, Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Pete Buttigieg, told the crowd [take the Senate majority]it will be time to end the systematic obstruction that has hindered so many good policies in this country. "

But some say the comments are rich coming from McConnell, who is known to have manipulated the rules and standards of the Senate for the sake of himself and his party. McConnell denied the confirmation of former President Barack Obama's choice by Supreme Court Justice Merrick Garland because "this appointment should not be filled, this vacancy should not be filled by this lame president ", and stated that he would try to block any position of legislation introduced in the Senate by Obama. "The most important thing we want to achieve is that President Obama has a single president mandate," he said of his role in the Senate at the time.

Earlier this month, Harry Reid, former leader of the Democratic Senator's majority, wrote an opinion piece for the Time advocating to end the systematic obstruction.

"What is happening today is far from what the founders had planned," he wrote. "Republicans over the past decade – knowing that their policies were unpopular and this obstruction was politically advantageous – have perfected and increased the free use of obstruction." The current affairs of the Senate are now subject to the systematic obstruction and apparent obsession of Republicans from paralysis and obstruction. "