Slade3200
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I don’t play the finger pointing team sports game. I look at a move or policy position and judge on the merits alone. There are things that the Dems have done that I don’t agree with and things the reps have done that I don’t agree with... there’s also a shit ton of hypocrisy between the two.You were talking about the filibuster when voting for judges that the Democrats changed in 2013. However oh, the filibuster until Nixon was very seldom used, didn't work. It was under Nixon that they made it 60 votes. They also made reconciliation, in other words 50 votes, possible when you're cutting taxes on people and services. So since Nixon obstruction and cutting taxes on the rich and giant corporations, has been made easier. The GOP platform.The Dems did. Do you agree with their move?Our government is built for obstruction now with the filibuster that is not a filibuster, and one senator can block up the whole thing. Republicans though can use reconciliation to cut taxes on the rich. So down we go. Brilliant, dupes.For the first six years of the Reagan presidency (1981-87) The Republicans controlled the Senate, and the Democrats the House. In 1986, the Democrats recaptured the Senate (while retaining the House) and thereafter remained in control of both chamber until losing both in 1994....dumbass.
Folks who still actually buy into the notion that these "two" political parties actually oppose each other rather than work together in tandem provide endless hours of entertainment.
We'll never get anywhere until there is a landslide for the Democrats and reform.
No kidding, and who was it that changed the filibuster rule...dumbass.