• @Glytch
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    35 months ago

    Democrats had an overwhelming when they passed obamacare.it was conservative Democrats who refused to vote for single payer. If Democrats had fallen in line and voted with their party it would have passed without any Republican votes needed, but the Blue Dogs said “no”.

    Of course it’s difficult. It’s especially difficult when the party that claims to be progressive refuses to pass progressive policies when they have the opportunity to.

    • OptionalOP
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      25 months ago

      Name the “Blue Dogs” who said no.

      (Also, please define Blue Dogs)

        • OptionalOP
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          15 months ago

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        • OptionalOP
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          05 months ago

          Yeah, you’re right. republiQans killed it but “Blue Dogs” failed us.

          As has been the case many times. To be fair, that’s a 30-year old ‘coalition’ and being active in choosing the candidates isn’t prevented by any means.

    • @[email protected]
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      05 months ago

      50%+1 is all that’s required to overturn the filibuster. Pelosi chose to let the blue-dog democrats block single-payer because they were getting shittons of money from the insurance companies.