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Originally Posted by Sly
I'm always amazed how the minority party, in both chambers and the Executive Office, has so much power. Well, at least we know next time the Republicans take over the House, Senate, and Oval the Democrats won't be sidelined.
This isn't even a right and left argument. It's a bunch of people nervous about elections playing politics. That's it. The Democrats can push through all sorts of bills that the Republicans don't want any part of, and they do it, and they can't push this through? Come on.
Our government "leaders" are only fueling this partisan hate we see all around.
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The irony is they don't really have that much power, but in this case the democrats are kind of spineless. In the senate the only real recourse the republicans have is to filibuster. They threaten it all the time and the democrats give in and believe them. The democrats can't break the filibuster so instead of calling the bluff and forcing the republicans to actually filibuster and bring everything to a halt they give in.
If they had any balls they would tell the republicans to filibuster and then explain to the people why nothing is getting done because they are filibustering everything that hits the floor. But that doesn't happen.
Part of it may also be that the republicans know what comes around goes around so when they eventually get a majority back if they did nothing but filibuster everything they know the democrats would do it right back to them.