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Please identify the Congressional term that had a pro-choice majority that could have passed federal abortion protections but did not. Do beware of the caveat that up until quite recently, the Democrats had a substantial minority faction of anti-abortion politicians from the south.
No one who's complained about the Dems apparently just deciding to miss what would be one of their greatest political victories for shits and giggles has ever been able to identify when this would have actually passed, but hey, maybe you'll be the first one.
And several of those Senators in that supermajority were against abortion rights. I can name them if you actually care.
Mate, I literally warned you against this. Two of those Senators were from god damned Arkansas, one from Indiana, and one from Louisiana. This was not the Democratic Party of the 2020s. Several of them voted for a federal ban on late-term abortions and bans for the use of any federal funding for abortions. Our good friend Joe Manchin was also in that majority.
Please though, do try again. You seemed very confident that this pro-abortion majority definitely existed, so I'll wait.
Two things.
One: even removing those listed senators from the supermajority, that still leaves a majority.
Two: their original comment lamented that the Democrats never even held a vote when they had control with the intent of putting their votes on the record, so that voters would know who actually supports their rights.
Because his argument has understanding of the situation, and isn't a pithy tantrum.
If you want abortion, you have to vote for it. There are primaries coming up. Go vote for every pro-choice Republican and Democrat you can find. Let me know if you elect 60 of them to the Senate and 218 to Congress. Then you'll absolutely get your codified abortion rights.
Or maybe your whining about Dems will fix the problem.
Your big win is that for two months, during which Congress was scrambling to deal with a recession so bad we still feel its effects and Dems fought and lost a fight to get the public option in healthcare, they could have easily just codified the right to abortion. You're either a troll or an idiot. Either way, you have no idea what you're talking about.
Sounds like Democrats are shit bags too then and the whole "vote blue no matter who" won't actually solve anything.
Vote for trump then
Why? Because expecting Democrats to serve the people who's votes they depend on is to tall an order? How fucking pathetic is that?
Because you seem to prefer them
I made it very clear who I preferred in the 2020 primaries and I would have happily voted for a number of others if they had made it to the general. Instead we got Joe Biden. The people who voted for him in the 2020 primaries can go fuck themselves. At the end of the day your opinion of me doesn't matter. You want my vote but you can't have it because you chose Joe fucking Biden in the 2020 primaries.
Third party voters are worse than Republican voters. Knock yourself out. And make sure you feel real good jerking it to how morally superior you are
I just said I'm not voting for Biden. I gave him a chance in the 2020 general election. He's made it clear he won't move to the left so he can go fuck himself along with everyone who voted for him in the 2020 primaries. I'm not claiming moral superiority. I'm just not propping up your garbage candidate. You want my vote? Should've made a better choice in the primaries. Simple as that.
The jerking has begun
Man if only there was some other piece of legislation they got passed during that 2 months... Maybe the largest healthcare overhaul in generations?
Fucking breadcrumbs. Banks and insurance companies benefited more from Obama's presidency than the American people.
The one that said it was illegal to not buy health insurance? The "compromise" that turned it into a huge win for the insurance industry? And it still sounds like people are going bankrupt because of medical issues or having treatments blocked because some insurance asshole disagrees with their doctor.
Yes, the one that was neutered completely by republicans which was somehow Obama's fault for doing something instead of nothing, the very thing being condemned in this thread
Weren't we talking about a period of time when the Dems controlled the presidency, house and senate?
That wasn't the case when the aca was created
"Controlled". If having a monolithic voting bloc is your number one issue, then go vote Republican. By the way, they're not any better at passing legislation, so don't get your hopes up.
I have no vote in that race, just watching the dumpster fire from my own dumpster that itself is smoldering a bit.
Oh I remember, that’s the one that the Republicans literally created as RomneyCare
Democrats, assisting fascists since the invention of liberalism
Lieberman was an independent at the time. For fuck's sake, if you're going to turf, at least get some of facts right.
"Before you criticise our dear leaders, take into account the anti-choice people who the leadership actively supported and promoted!"
Every time a conservative democrat runs against a progressive or even a further left liberal, DNC leadership supports the conservative.
The last anti-choice Dem representative, Henry Cuellar, was losing to pro-choice progressive Jessica Cisneros until Nancy Pelosi and Jim Clyburn endorsed him and personally showed up to speak at his rallies.
You’re just obfuscating. Don’t you see? There’s nothing the Democrats could have done!
But elect Biden and he will codify Roe.
Democrats are some dumb mother fuckers lol
.... democrats are the dumb mother fuckers?
No no you're right what am I thinking. Donald Trump single handily solved covid. Remember when everyone shoved a flashlight up their ass and drank some bleach?
"I voted thrid party!" (Vote for Trump)
"I didn't vote!" (Vote for Trump)
"I'm not from america." OH? Enlighten us. Which shit show describes your government?
Keep saying that when Biden loses because the dems chose a bowl of shit candidate
As a person, yes… but as a candidate? I don’t have a lot of hope.
No one has ever recovered from polling numbers as low as Biden’s…. And it’s getting worse. He has lost the youth vote and he needs it badly to win. And because of electoral college he’s already down 5 points even if the popular vote is 50/50
You can believe that if you like but if you actually know anything about polling you are wrong. Dead wrong. No president had ever come back from Biden’s current polling at this stage in the term. I’m not a trump supporter, but I am critical of Biden and it is not looking good
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If they are that bad at governing they have no business getting reelected.