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Biden clearly should not do #1. The problem with #2 is that reconciliation delays the inevitable and creates a tiered system where issues that happen to be ineligible - like
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The de facto supermajority threshold was first forged against civil rights. Jim Crow-era segregationist senators repurposed a 1917 Senate rule to force every civil rights bill to clear a supermajority
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The filibuster was not part of the original Senate because the Framers knew exactly how it'd be used- they saw McConnell coming. The filibuster represents Calhoun's vision, not Madison's. Calhoun
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If McConnell insists, the Dem response should be to go nuclear on the organizing resolution, which under current rules needs 60 to pass. Dems extended a reasonable deal, McConnell spit
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A few quick thoughts on this: it's fine. If Dems control the floor and gavels, and ties in committees advance bills or nominations to the floor, those are the powers
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Democrats should not take a victory lap on this bill. It provides less than a third of the aid economists say is necessary and McConnell is getting all the credit-
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So... agree or disagree, I say what I think on here. I took flack from the left for defending CARES. The current deal might end up as better than
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Very much team @jomalleydillon https://twitter.com/jonathanvswan/status/1339317278962278400 This will one day be cited by Republicans as a reason they refused to cooperate with Biden - which will be a bullshit manufactured excuse
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McConnell is upbeat because he is getting what he wants: the least amount of aid injected into the economy while still passing a bill before the GA runoffs. Dems are
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“Defund” is a straw man in the debate over what went wrong for downballot Dems - and an excuse to throw activists under the bus. Progressives urged Dems to run
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As the dust settles on Democrats' downballot failures, it's becoming increasingly clear that the attempt to throw activists under the bus is a panicky attempt to cover for inexplicable, systemic
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The debate over whether to hold Trump accountable is about political capital. It is manifestly good (and forward-looking) to hold people who broke the law accountable, to prevent future crime.
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