The term RINO (Republican in Name Only) doesn’t begin to describe the faux conservatives of ABC’s The View: Alyssa Farah Griffin and Ana Navarro. During an interview with Democratic New York Senator Chuck Schumer on Monday, the co-hosts decried the idea of him working with Republicans in the House because it would be “elevating extremists,” and urged him to kill the filibuster in the Senate to pass liberal agenda items like “voting rights, abortion, [and] policing.”
Bitter Navarro was the first to take a swipe at the party she claims membership. “Democrats and the Senate – and the President now have to work with a Republican-controlled House … but that's elevating extremists,” she warned Schumer.
She whined about Republicans kicking the likes of anti-Semite Ilhan Omar (D-MN), security risk Eric Swalwell (D-CA), and serial liar Adam Schiff (D-NY) off of committees and the “crazy investigations” they’re conducting. And seemingly taking a shot a Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), she wondered: “How are you going to work with that crook in charge?”
Schumer responded by praising how Democrats and Republicans have been able to pass bipartisan legislation during President Biden’s first term:
That's a great question. I’ve given it a lot of thought. First, in the Senate, which as you know, you need to do things in a bipartisan way because you need 60 votes for everything. We had an amazing bipartisan record. We accomplished seven big things in the last year. People say it was one of the most historic congresses and senates since Lyndon Johnson. Six -- Of those seven bills six were bipartisan.
For the final question, Farah Griffin pressed Schumer to explain which liberal agenda items would give him the impetus to kill the filibuster. “There's obviously some major issues the Democrats have been hyper-focused on but not able to get through: voting rights, abortion, policing. Are there any issues you would – Democrats would welcome eliminating the filibuster to get through?” she encouraged him.
Schumer explained that he was itching to kill the filibuster to implement a federal takeover of state election processes:
Well, on the filibuster I would say this, we tried to do it for voting rights. Because we think voting rights is so, so important that it's worth changing the rules. If you take away someone's voting rights and people lose faith that democracy works, that's the beginning of the end. We needed 50. Then Kamala Harris would have broken the tie. We got 48. Now we have one more vote. It's something we're going to keep fighting for because voting rights are so damn important to this whole country.
And while she’s not a conservative or Republican by any stretch, co-host Whoopi Goldberg urged Schumer to focus on “education” because she wanted him to “shut down all this crazy stuff happening in Florida and in Texas because black history is American history.” Fact check: Florida is not trying to eliminate black history.
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ABC’s The View
February 13, 2023
11:31:30 a.m. Eastern(…)
ANA NAVARRO: Democrats and the Senate – and the president now have to work with a Republican-controlled House. I'm not sure he's much in control, but whatever.
SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER (D-NY): Yeah, you're right.
NAVARRO: But that's elevating extremists. They're kicking off Democrats from committees, they’re doing all sorts of crazy investigations just right off the top. Tell me, how are you going to work with that crook in charge?
SCHUMER: That's a great question. I’ve given a lot of thought. First, in the Senate, which as you know, you need to do things in a bipartisan way because you need 60 votes for everything. We had an amazing bipartisan record. We accomplished seven big things in the last year. People say it was one of the most historic congresses and senates since Lyndon Johnson. Six -- Of those seven bills six were bipartisan.
The bill on gun safety was bipartisan, the bill on helping veterans was bipartisan, the bill on bringing chip manufacturing back from China to the American shores, which is a big, big deal, was bipartisan. Marriage equality ended up being bipartisan. And so—
NAVARRO: Infrastructure.
SCHUMER: Infrastructure, another one, that's right. Thank you. Were bipartisan.
So, our plan is to continue working in a bipartisan way in the Senate to get more done. And then I think what's going to happen – it's a great question. So you have these 20 MAGA people way out there. But there are a lot of Republicans in the Senate -- in the House, rather. Some of the new ones in particular, I think, who are realize that if they follow these people who are so far to the right – forget of the average American even of the average Republican. It's going to be like Thelma and Louise. They'll follow them right off the cliff.
So, I think we’re going to be able to work with them and we will work with them to get things done. Our job for the American people is to get things done. Not just to make political statements, but get things done to make people's lives better.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: True that.
(…)
11:39:49 a.m. Eastern
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: And Senator Schumer, one important question I want to end on. There's obviously some major issues the Democrats have been hyper focused on but not able to get through: voting rights, abortion, policing. Are there any issues you would – Democrats would welcome eliminating the filibuster to get through?
SUNNY HOSTIN: Especially policing.
SCHUMER: Yes. Well, on the filibuster I would say this, we tried to do it for voting rights. Because we think voting rights is so, so important that it's worth changing the rules. If you take away someone's voting rights and people lose faith that democracy works, that's the beginning of the end. We needed 50. Then Kamala Harris would have broken the tie. We got 48. Now we have one more vote. It's something we're going to keep fighting for because voting rights are so damn important to this whole country.
GOLDBERG: Yeah.
SARA HAINES: Agreed.
GOLDBERG: And education, make sure you shut down all this crazy stuff happening in Florida and in Texas because black history is American history.
SCHUMER: That’s right. I agree.
