The Supermajority That Never Really Was
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I constantly read and hear that Obama was a terrible president and didn’t care about the average American because he had a Congressional Democratic Supermajority, but he just failed to use it.  ...

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.

  • Kumikommunism [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    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.