Democracy for America

I struggle with this thought experiment for a different reason. And that reason is the 6-8 blue dogs in the Senate.

Let's take the ACA. There is no way Lieberman (Independent Senator from Aetna) was going to vote YES for a public option. Even if the other 7 blue dogs did (which they would not).

The sad reality is that even when we had 60, we didn't have a reliable 60. We had a reliable 53 or so.

Also ... the GOP strategy is pretty clear. Their view of government works like this.

1) When we are in charge, we use the mechanisms of government to enrich our friends.
2) When we are out of power, we do everything we can to bring the government to a stand still.

Now ... if the Dems had been able to ram through everything they wanted, Obama would win easily, because the lives of average people would improve.

Its interesting to hear the GOP scream that because they won the House in 2010, "elections have consequences" ... and yet when the Dems won the WH, the House, and the Senate ... the GOP did everything they could to BLOCK the consequences of the 2008 election.

Weird how that works.