Looks like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell isn't bowing to the wishes of Scott Walker and Jeb Bush on ending the Senate's filibuster rule in order to ease the path to repealing Obamacare. Alexander Bolton has
the details:
Sources close to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) say there’s virtually no chance he will go along with abolishing the filibuster, something he has strongly criticized in the past. [...]
Bush and Walker recently told conservative talk show host Hugh Hewitt they would support lowering the threshold for major legislation from 60 votes to a simple majority. Curbing the power of the Senate minority would make it easier to repeal and replace ObamaCare in 2017.
Oddly, this is one point on which McConnell and you his usual nemesis, Sen. Ted Cruz, agree.
Cruz told Hewitt Monday that scrapping the filibuster would likely lead to an expansion of government by making it easier to pass sweeping initiatives through Congress.
“I believe ending the legislative filibuster would ultimately undermine conservative principles, because, if you look historically, there have been three major periods where you have had Democratic supermajorities,” he said.