Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) appears ready to go "scorched earth" on the 60-vote filibuster so Democrats can pass legislation aimed at stealing future elections. Yesterday, Schumer sent an ominous letter to "colleagues" in the Upper Chamber about "weaponized-arcane Senate rules."

In an email to Grassfire staff this morning, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-KY) office called Schumer's memo "somewhat odd & intimidating." We agree. Here's an excerpt:

Make no mistake about it: this week Senate Democrats will make clear that what happened on January 6th and the one-sided, partisan actions being taken by Republican-led state legislatures across the country are directly linked, and we can and must take strong action to stop this anti-democratic march. ... Given the urgency of the situation and imminence of the votes, we as Senate Democrats must urge the public in a variety of different ways to impress upon their Senators the importance of acting and reforming the Senate rules, if that becomes a perquisite for action to save our democracy. (Read the entire letter here.)

It is "odd" that Schumer insists "saving our democracy" requires threatening Republicans with the "weaponization" of long-standing Senate rules. What's even stranger is that, earlier in the New York Democrat's political career, the filibuster was a "sacred cow" to him. In 2005, Schumer went on numerous tirades in defense of the 60-vote threshold for passing legislation. Back then, he called eliminating the filibuster:

• "The rubber stamp of dictatorship"
• "A doomsday for democracy"
• "A constitutional crisis"
• "A temper tantrum"
• "Abuse of power"

He also warned against "the nuclear option," insisting it "would turn this country into a banana republic." What changed Senator? Now that Democrats are in power, you've become the very thing you warned against.

Also in the letter, Schumer quotes the late-Sen. Robert Byrd when calling for Senate rules to be "changed to reflect changed circumstances" and not "bound by the dead hand of the past." In his younger days, Byrd was reportedly an "Exalted Cyclops" in the Ku Klux Klan -- probably not the best person to help make your argument for "nuking" the Senate filibuster to pass "voting rights."

"America First" patriots know that "voting rights" is Democrat code for hijacking future elections. Liberty-loving conservatives also know the radical, unhinged Left, the "woke mob" and FAKE NEWS will continue to breathlessly report about the January 6, 2021 breach of the Capitol Building as "as the end of democracy," while insisting months of BLM/Antifa riots were "mostly peaceful protests."