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Been thinking this for over a decade (i.imgur.com)

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

Dems win if voter turn out is too high, so Republican block attempts to make it a day off. So why didn't Biden push it through when Dems last had the house and the senate?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Because they've never had the senate. You need 60 votes to get past the fillabuster and to fix THAT you'd need Sinama and Manchin to agree to that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

why didn't Biden push [it] through when Dems last had the house and the senate?

I think that's only been 4 months out of the last 50 years, and I bet there was some pretty fundamental stuff to unfuck first. And then they ran out of time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Because Dems need something to cry about every cycle. They could do so many things if they actually wanted to.