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Would love to see how this meme would look if democrat presidents ever got a democrat majority... You know... Like republicans keep getting thanks to voter suppression and gerrymandering.
Yeah like that time Obama had it?
Man I've been debunking that argument for years now. Yay propaganda power.
So the long story short is, he had the count on paper, but a series of different members from his party being incapacitated due to injury, illness, and old age, as well as a few DINOs (Democrats in name only) who preferred to vote with the Republicans, meant he never really had an actual majority on the hill. But yes on paper.
Right, because Manchin is not a democrat when it matters.
Obama had one I thought and he still half assed health care.
He had a filibuster proof majority for a total of 4 months and passed one of the largest healthcare reforms ever, with the GOP trying to sabotage literally everything along the way. I wish they would've taken a bat to Lieberman's knees to get the public option in, but I don't know how anyone could consider Obama's efforts half assed.
Giving insurance companies a seat at the table when making the bills seems pretty half assed to me, but I’m not an American. Maybe your healthcare system is secretly awesome.
Yeah it's a shit system. I'm well aware of that. No one with a functioning brain thinks we have a good system.
Everything stems from our inability to keep money out of politics. They lobby with billions of dollars in bribes. They own legislators. You can literally buy votes in Congress for under $10k. Even if you don't give them a seat at the table, they're at the table. I'd rather we deal with their bullshit face to face rather than through shadow campaigns of influence.
Was certainly not half assed.
ok but he made more progress than any other president in recent history so..
The best smelling shit is still shit bro.
and republicans still smell worse in every case
Well the dems keep moving to the right in lock step with the repubs so I don’t hold them much less accountable. The issue I have is the dems should know better. That’s what makes me so angry at them.