A GOP senator was forced to backtrack on comments he made regarding filibusters after he switched sides when it came to voting on the Iran war.
“When Republicans were in the minority, you described it and repeatedly defended it as vital and necessary to protect minority parties’ rights,” CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins told Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) during an appearance on her show on Thursday.
Scott had been complaining about how Democrats “only block all the votes” Republicans try to make. He blamed “this sixty-vote threshold, which I think we ought to get rid of.”
“Why do you have a different position now that Republicans are in the majority?” Collins asked Scott.
“Well then, let’s do the filibuster,” he said, pulling a full 180 and changing the issue. “We’re not making people talk. The filibuster was set up, so I’m fine with it if we were going to do the filibuster, where people have to talk.”
Collins, not really buying what Scott was selling, brought up that Senate Majority Leader John Thune has said that the filibuster is still around because “y’all, Republicans, don’t have the votes to get rid of that.”
“Well, I’m from Florida,” he responded. “This is what I believe in. I talk to the people in my state. They agree with me.”
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