And didn’t have enough support to push anything through to the floor that wasn’t budgetary or generally popular because of senate rules that would require 60 senators when we had 50, or the override of that rule which a couple senators (Manchin and Sinema,one who recently moved independent) opposed so it wouldn’t happen anyway. There are an incredibly small number of republican members of Congress who would support universal health care, but I imagine the vast majority of democrats would. The problem is gerrymandering in the house and the fact that backwoods states like Montana and North Dakota wield as much power in the Senate as places like California.
Bro. Can you read. Do I need to turn it into a picture for you? There are procedural rules in this case the filibuster. If you do not have 60 votes to override the filibuster, it does not pass because all an opposing senator has to do is say Filibuster and you’re hit. There are things that can force debate, but you are basically done. That rule change would require the support of Manchin and Sinema, which would not have happened, so democrats were stopped. And they did take the steps for the two years which is why we have the Affordable Care Act so things like pre existing conditions are covered. Maybe you should do some more reading on how our government works before you try to talk with the grownups
They passed the mother fucking affordable care act. Do you not understand how huge of an undertaking that was? They also passed DREAM and limited how credit card companies can charge you. And those are the big ones. Would you call that no action?
You clearly lack any understanding of how the government works beyond what you’d learn in 6th grade civics and have no memory of the 2009 Congress yet try to speak authoritively about it. By comment was definitely rude, and that was intended. But it was not ridiculous, it was a statement of fact.
I bet the families that could finally get health insurance because pre existing conditions were finally forced to be covered feel different. I bet the kid who outgrew their prosthetic legs and couldn’t get new ones because they reached their lifetime coverage before they turned 18 feels different. I bet the kids who grew up here but were considered ‘illegal’ (imagine being illegal just by existing somewhere) felt relief when they didn’t have to worry about being sent to a country they never visited or were connected to felt different?
Again, one party wants to protect my LGBTQ friends, wants health care for all, wants to raise taxes on the wealthy to protect and improve social programs, wants to create free education and remove the debt of college from those who have it, and one party doesn’t.Cry that I’m a Zionist, but if all other things are the same, I know which party I support. I also find it hilarious that I’ve proven you factually wrong many times and you make the claim I will look foolish and that I have made no defense.
They couldn’t have passed healthcare for all because they didn’t have the votes. Remember, they needed 60. So they compromised and moved in the right direction. Also, in 2009 there wasn’t such an open hate for the LGBTQ community. States were legalizing gay marriage, and the defense of marriage act was overturned eventually also. It’s only the last few years that the hate rhetoric has been turned up. A lot of things changed for a lot of people. And they did raise taxes. Guess what was undone in 2016 by the Republicans who are so the same as the democrats. You’re unwilling to see it because you’re afraid of admitting you’re wrong regardless of how many times I’ve proven it. All you can do is scream the word Zionist over and over like a play-acting intellectual in between bouts of being demonstrably wrong
And didn’t have enough support to push anything through to the floor that wasn’t budgetary or generally popular because of senate rules that would require 60 senators when we had 50, or the override of that rule which a couple senators (Manchin and Sinema,one who recently moved independent) opposed so it wouldn’t happen anyway. There are an incredibly small number of republican members of Congress who would support universal health care, but I imagine the vast majority of democrats would. The problem is gerrymandering in the house and the fact that backwoods states like Montana and North Dakota wield as much power in the Senate as places like California.
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Bro. Can you read. Do I need to turn it into a picture for you? There are procedural rules in this case the filibuster. If you do not have 60 votes to override the filibuster, it does not pass because all an opposing senator has to do is say Filibuster and you’re hit. There are things that can force debate, but you are basically done. That rule change would require the support of Manchin and Sinema, which would not have happened, so democrats were stopped. And they did take the steps for the two years which is why we have the Affordable Care Act so things like pre existing conditions are covered. Maybe you should do some more reading on how our government works before you try to talk with the grownups
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They passed the mother fucking affordable care act. Do you not understand how huge of an undertaking that was? They also passed DREAM and limited how credit card companies can charge you. And those are the big ones. Would you call that no action?
You clearly lack any understanding of how the government works beyond what you’d learn in 6th grade civics and have no memory of the 2009 Congress yet try to speak authoritively about it. By comment was definitely rude, and that was intended. But it was not ridiculous, it was a statement of fact.
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I bet the families that could finally get health insurance because pre existing conditions were finally forced to be covered feel different. I bet the kid who outgrew their prosthetic legs and couldn’t get new ones because they reached their lifetime coverage before they turned 18 feels different. I bet the kids who grew up here but were considered ‘illegal’ (imagine being illegal just by existing somewhere) felt relief when they didn’t have to worry about being sent to a country they never visited or were connected to felt different?
Again, one party wants to protect my LGBTQ friends, wants health care for all, wants to raise taxes on the wealthy to protect and improve social programs, wants to create free education and remove the debt of college from those who have it, and one party doesn’t.Cry that I’m a Zionist, but if all other things are the same, I know which party I support. I also find it hilarious that I’ve proven you factually wrong many times and you make the claim I will look foolish and that I have made no defense.
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They couldn’t have passed healthcare for all because they didn’t have the votes. Remember, they needed 60. So they compromised and moved in the right direction. Also, in 2009 there wasn’t such an open hate for the LGBTQ community. States were legalizing gay marriage, and the defense of marriage act was overturned eventually also. It’s only the last few years that the hate rhetoric has been turned up. A lot of things changed for a lot of people. And they did raise taxes. Guess what was undone in 2016 by the Republicans who are so the same as the democrats. You’re unwilling to see it because you’re afraid of admitting you’re wrong regardless of how many times I’ve proven it. All you can do is scream the word Zionist over and over like a play-acting intellectual in between bouts of being demonstrably wrong
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