

The Senate majority leader selected by 48 Dem 2 Ind, and VP Tiebreaker? While the Republicans had exactly 50?
The Senate majority leader selected by 48 Dem 2 Ind, and VP Tiebreaker? While the Republicans had exactly 50?
The DNC didnt even have 50 in the last decade.
I literally outlined exactly how we could know in the comment you replied to.
“Every dirty trick” is having actual majorities without independents to caucus. That is exactly why Republicans were able to deny the Obama appointee.
My idea of voting harder is more than 50 Dems, which hasn’t happened in many years, then they could consider taking the Filibuster off for a while.
Ideally 60 Dems, enough to pass all of their platform without being filibustered and without giving Republicans a chance to fight back.
We haven’t even tried that but everybody in here is so ready to blame Dems for not being in charge.
They literally don’t have a horse to trade. Look at Hegseth as an example: 0 Dems, only 50 out of 53 Republicans, Still Confirmed. Cabinet positions and judges can’t even be filibustered since 2013 and 2017 respectively.
In the end, it doesn’t matter what Dem Senators vote for on this issue. It literally does not matter unless hypothetically GOP senators vote no on a Trump appointee but DNC vote yes, which is pretty much impossible.
The current tax plan was written by republicans in Trump’s first term and expires in 2026.
Kamala Harris’ tax plan was to tax the rich.
Trump’s tax plan is to stop taxing the rich while he attempts to reduce deficit by removing 70 Million American’s healthcare coverage.
There is no “both parties” about this, people just keep choosing the obviously worse party.
AFAIK the Dem votes have had no effect on any Trump nominee. Hegseth had 0 Dems and only 50 out of 53 Republicans and still got confirmed. These appointments can’t be filibustered, either. Even if a couple of Dems thought Rubio would be a better option than some conspiracy theorist, it’s a moot point when they can do nothing to stop it.
It would have saved us, yeah.
Stop pretending that we didn’t give your party a majority
Stop blatantly lying, then?
If you can’t break filibuster then you can’t pass anything without the opposition’s graces. The thing about progressives vs conservatives is the progressives have to pass things but conservatives win when nothing happens, and conservatives have been winning for many years.
You made this comment after the edit, which is kind of weird
Um akshually
We gave them 48 + 2 Ind and VP tiebreaker gave them the majority leader position who calls votes. They literally did not even have a simple majority even with the Independents.
Nope~ we gave them 48 Dem + 2 Ind, they only picked majority leader with VP tiebreaker.
If Independents counted as Democrats then we would have singlepayer healthcare a decade ago. Face it, those Ind were as likely to fuck us all over on votes as they were to help us.
Idk why you refuse to believe we haven’t given Democrats a chance. Just look at the last presidential election: voters chose literally Hitler over the Dems.
Sorry yeh I had those confused.
So you want them to do the things they’re already doing to delay votes that will happen in short matter regardless of what they do?
Reminder that only simple majority of 51 breaks filibuster for cabinet and judge confirmation hearings since 2013 and 2017 respectively. The DNC stalled for 30 hours because they were allowed to by the GOP, and the hearing still went through as planned. Nothing can stop this.
Democrats have had less than 50 for over a decade, nothing sudden about it.
I certainly don’t remember it. We gave them 58 over a decade ago and less than 50 ever since.
With the way so many assholes worship this fuck you would expect any tangible effect after so many months passed. It’s not like health insurance coverage from a medicaid provider is unknown black magic, there has gotta be stats to lean on if a change existed.
Sometimes they did. Thats kind of what it means to be Independent, you dont vote with the party. One of them is the reason we don’t have public healthcare and instead only medicaid expansion.
Still, a supermajority with caucus would be nice and more than 50 dem would be salvation.