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Originally Posted by spazlabz
no worries I dont take much personally  I think that the way the current power structure is in the US it is a bit admirable. esp when contrasted with how disjointed the democrats have been over the past year. They couldn't get a majority of their members to agree on what day of the week it is and the republican's unity completely fucked up the heads of the democrats. In essence, their ability to stick together practically put the minority party in a position of determining what got done... unheard of power for a party in the minority. It looks like the democrats may have finally caught on but I am not holding my breath here
spaz |
Sometimes minority governments can be effective. They have to listen to the people a little more closely. I think that is what the Democrats did in this case. This is a popular bill by all accounts, but it took some tweaking to get it passed.