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Edited on Wed Sep-16-09 03:10 PM by AllentownJake
Seriously,
I haven't read the bill Max Baucus is proposing, I probably won't get a chance to since I'm helping out on a municipal campaign but the reports I'm getting is that it is a giant turd. It really doesn't surprise me.
We have 59 US Senators right now in our party. Yet for some reason beyond reason we attempt to reach accross the aisle on a bill only to have our hands smacked again, and again, and again, and again. We make compromises and make the bill worthless and yet they still don't support it.
They won't they are playing a different game right now. If the past 8 years are any demonstration the Republicans do not give a shit about America or the American people. They care about staying in power and lobbying jobs for their staffs. Right now, lobby jobs are drying up (nobody needs to lobby to the ranking member of a committee from the opposition party) and they are out of power.
The sooner democrats come to terms with the fact that the other side of the aisle doesn't give a lick about America. They care about getting back in power and neutering democratic reforms is one of their tickets there. Fuck them. Let them fillibuster. Let them obstruct. Make them make a mockery of the Senate. Than in 2010. We have 65 democratic Senators.
When they had spent 40 years in the wilderness of being out of powere bi-partisanship was possible. They remember to well holding the gavels and they are playing hard ball to get them back.
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