• @[email protected]
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    1246 months ago

    This guy almost singlehandedly eliminated the public option for healthcare in this country.

    For that he can get fucked.

    • @[email protected]
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      856 months ago

      No, HE DID. The dems needed his vote to pass the ACA, and he made them get rid of the single payer option.

      • @Ensign_Crab
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        96 months ago

        He had help. Ben Nelson deserves as much blame as the Democratic Party’s vp nominee.

      • @[email protected]
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        76 months ago

        Dems are masters of “just needed this one ‘centrist’ vote” between their rank to be sure nothing progressive pass.

        • @blady_blah
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          16 months ago

          If you have no margin of error then that’s the way it is. Every vote can be a veto.

          What’s really interesting is how the bar was 60 votes when this was happening but it’s now 50 votes due to massive watering down of veto power in the Senate.

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      156 months ago

      Yeah something the article bot (or perhaps the article irself, idk) failed to include.

      • @jeffwOP
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        Obits are usually written years before someone dies. What is included and not included is on purpose. Obit writer is a full time job for big papers. A good obit writer has a massive trove of them written about living folks. Its not (currently) a bot thing.