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Seeing a lot of "Both sides" comments again so need to remind y'all (slrpnk.net)
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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Do you not remember the clusterfuck that led to the Affordable Care Act?

I remember the bill being held up for weeks over The Hyde Amendment, because "pro-life" democrats didn't want anyone using a thin red cent of federal money for an abortion. But this was when Dems had a 257 seat majority in the House (39 vote margin) and a 60 vote Senate (10 vote margin and functionally filibuster-proof).

It was most certainly the best they could do at the time

Democrats couldn't get Democrats to vote for a bill every single one of those fuckers campaigned on.

95% of the Democrats were trying to pass a bill that would have, among many other things, made insulin much easier to get

I'll spot you 85% if I'm being generous. Even then, quite a few of those assholes were hiding behind the conservative hold-outs and trying to run out the clock before they might be forced to actually pass something.

What exactly is the logic of blaming Democrats for that?

Dem House, Dem Senate, Dem Presidency.

Lemmy: "Republicans did this".

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 3 points 3 months ago

Dem House, Dem Senate, Dem Presidency.

Lemmy: “Republicans did this”.

You're hopeless.

[–] guacupado@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So now that they did something, you're mad it didn't go far enough so that means both are the same.

Some 4D chess right there.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

So now that they did something

They didn't do anything. The bill didn't pass.