The 60 needed to break McConnell's automatic, default filibuster included conservative independent Joe Lieberman, Republican Arlen Spector who switched parties to help Democrats, Ted Kennedy who had cancer, Robert Byrd who was hospitalized for several months, and Al Franken who wasn't allowed to start until July due to recount challenges.
I wonder why they didn't pass universal health care, cap and trade energy policy, making PR and DC states, voter reform etc. Come on. McConnell wanted to block everything so people would blame the democrats for failure and it worked on you.
looks at post score vs. downvotes There are three imposters among us.
What an absolute cope. If at this point you still think the Democratic Party wants to help people in good faith you are an absolute clown. The greatest lib strategy of all time is do nothing and then blame Republicans.
Newsflash: Both parties represent capital.
I want to know who the 3 people are who upvoted this. Show yourself libs.
Ah must've been a quirk in the UI the downvote icon seems to refresh without refreshing the total score unless you reload the whole site.
Yea, we all know this. That's why we primary them and take over the democratic party. But we need dem voters to see how bad the problem is. You can't point to Obama's 8 years of being blocked by McConnell as proof that dems are all bad. It doesn't sell the case.
I wonder why they didn’t pass universal health care, cap and trade energy policy, making PR and DC states, voter reform etc.
Because they didn't want to and they still don't want to. If you couldn't tell from the primaries, Democrat leaders don't want universal healthcare or worthwhile action on climate change. Like, I can't even believe you are arguing something different. They have explicitly said so, repeatedly.
