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what we mean is, any Democrat who breaks ranks on any issue is encouraging disunity, but there's no need to make an effort to reach out to the right https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1351953578940764163
gonna be wild for some when they end up needing a half-dozen republicans to sign on to pass anything in the Senate https://twitter.com/theloneamigo/status/1351954699545546754
and then they repeal the legislative filibuster
and then next time Republicans are in power the fireworks REALLY begin
and then next time Republicans are in power the fireworks REALLY begin
The thing people forget about Lincoln is that even if the South had stuck around, pro-union parties held 137/183 House seats (so, a huge supermajority), and 31/61 seated Senatores, and also every single gubernatorial election the Republicans contested.
So *before* secession, Lincoln came in with a similar level of Senate control, a massive House majority, and control of tons of state houses and governorships.
After secession, he achieved practically one-party rule through the whole country.
That's not the kind of power base Biden is working with. He's gonna have to compromise.
That's not the kind of power base Biden is working with. He's gonna have to compromise.
I mean y'all, after Dems scrapped the filibuster for judicial appointments, you saw what McConnell did with Federal appointments to the bench!
Just wait until you see what he does without a legislative cloture restriction.
Just wait until you see what he does without a legislative cloture restriction.
You wanna go down that road just remember the end of it is Mitch McConnel gets 51 votes and then abolishes the income tax and pays for it by abolishing like 9 cabinet departments.
People acting like the last 4 years show the GOP would do nothing don't understand the extent to which the 60 vote legislative threshold made it impossible to do the things many of the GOP's more energetic voices wanted to do.
Democrats kept saying McConnell was going to abolish the legislative filibuster and yet here we are with Democrats taking power in both houses and the Presidency and it's still intact so idk that seems wrong. https://twitter.com/lee_kovarsky/status/1351957844975902720
There are a lot of reasons you can hate Mitch McConnell but he argued rather strongly *against* removing the judicial filibuster precisely on the basis of "you have no idea what I will do with this power."
No, but I'm absolutely saying that this is what the left sees the right as being based on. https://twitter.com/mathIsMight/status/1351958678270849024
This is a two-edged sword. Progressives look at ACA and see, "Conservatives couldn't undo a policy they hate!"
But progressives also look at ACA and see a deeply conservative policy originally drafted by the Heritage Foundation! https://twitter.com/revivingfisking/status/1351958948316815360
But progressives also look at ACA and see a deeply conservative policy originally drafted by the Heritage Foundation! https://twitter.com/revivingfisking/status/1351958948316815360
Undoing the ACA was hard because at the end of the day large corporate interests in the insurance and hospital sector were pretty happy with it.
If your argument is, "Ending the filibuster is good because it'll allow us to pass more cobbled-together monstrosities that make nobody happy but meet the priority checklists of large insurance companies!" then.... okay? That's.... neither progressive nor conservative?
Yes, remember that extremely unpopular tax cut the Republicans passed and didn't get any punishment for whatsoever? And which Democrats have no clear plan for rolling back without huge political costs? https://twitter.com/ad_bernardi/status/1351960308441604097
