(April 13, 2018 at 4:24 pm)alpha male Wrote:(April 13, 2018 at 3:15 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I suppose you also (willfully?) forgot that the Dems lost control of the congress in the 2010 mid-terms.
Are you willfully ignoring the fact that LOST control means they HAD control...and didn't tax the hell out of the 1% while they had it?
Unless I'm mistaken, they would need 60 Senators for such a bill to be filibuster proof, and even then, they can't afford to lose a single Senator. The Democratic Party is more united than the Republican party, but it's not that united.
Getting any legislation passed is difficult. Even when the Dems had 60 Senators and passed Obamacare, they had to bend over backwards to insurance companies and Republicans while the bill was being written, as well as the more right-wing members of their own party. The final Obamacare bill was a watered down version of the original as a result.
