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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes banning abortion really helps poor women[/quote]

Democrats could codify abortion access. Why don't they? Have they even tried? [/quote]
The House passed a bill codifying Roe. Please tell us which ten Republican Senators would have voted for it?[/quote]

Why won’t Democrats eliminate the filibuster so this wouldn’t be an issue?[/quote]

Because Manchin and Sinema would lose any leverage they currently have.[/quote]
And because if they eliminate the filibuster to codify Roe, the Republicans can flip it the other way, as soon as they get total control.[/quote]

But the Republicans... but Manchin, but Sinema, but the parliamentarian, but but but... all the Democrats have are weakness and excuses.

The Democrats are just an inverse of Republicans. Democrats can't govern and can't legislate and all they do is make excuses. Republicans, they steamroll everything and act shamelessly and with impunity. and guess what, they have no consequences, because the Democrats are too weak to make them face any consequences.

If the tables were turned, could you IMAGINE the Democrats playing as much hardball as the Republicans just did on the debt ceiling? [/quote]

JFC. Read a book. The US government was intentionally designed to make it almost impossible to make any significant legislative changes. You have to have the President, large majorities in the House and Senate, a majority of the Supreme Court, good faith cooperation from the 50 state governors and legislatures, and even if by some miracle you succeed, the voters will immediately elect the other guys to defund and dismantle what you just did. Republicans appear to be more successful because they don’t try to do anything legislatively. They are a permanent obstructionist party electing and appointing obstructionists. Reforms in the US happen only when a large majority of the public makes a specific change a priority and not a side issue. [/quote]

PP has zero discussion of the Democrats’ effectiveness or who gets the legislation+government they want. This comment is just middlebrow high school civics and regurgitated MSNBC. Lots of savy people get what they want and they often get it from the Republicans.

Talk about what the Democrats actually do, drop the platitudes, and then you *might* be in a position that justifies the patronizing tone you have above.[/quote]

Democrats are responsible for every progressive change in federal laws since 1933, but all of them took a long time to happen because the public had to be persuaded and obstructionists in Congress and the judiciary and the states obstructed every change. Sure, Republican donors get some patronage and privilege from Governors and Senators but those aren’t major legislative changes, that is just more of the same that has gone on forever. It’s just idiotic to ask why Biden hasn’t codified Roe v. Wade. [/quote]

Also Pelosi and House Democrats kicked Trump’s ass for two years but they didn’t try to burn down the country, they actually saved Trump and McConnell from the holes they had dug themselves into. Republicans couldn’t even pass a budget in 2018 when they controlled every branch, but House Democrats came in and cut deals to find the government and then to respond to the pandemic while Republicans spent all their time making up stupid shit to keep their base angry and dysfunctional. Democrats always have to fix Republicans breaking the budget and crashing the economy. You’re welcome. [/quote]

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