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Other than the supreme court, as you said, yes. Senate is very slim, though, so they're bottlenecked by blue dogs.
How there's not a grainy video from 2004 of him doing a bottle bong I don't know. impressive political acumen from a young age.
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Sort of. The margin in the Senate is razor-thin, and Senate rules + Joe Manchin mean that this isn't exactly carte blanche to enact progressive policy.
But it's much, much better than it could have been. McConnell is no longer Majority Leader, which is a massive victory in and of itself.
The fact that Democrats will actually be able to bring stuff up for a vote, and tie names to votes on specific pieces of proposed legislation in itself will be huge. Mitch isn't going to be able to insulate his Senators from being against popular ideas anymore.
Seriously though. That is incredibly inept leadership if they cannot do it during a pandemic that is getting close to WW2 casualties.
This will always be the case as long as Capitalism is still the law of the land. Democrats aren't immune from bribery. Hell, Facebook gave Chuck Schumer's daughter a job at Facebook in exchange for Senate Democrats ignoring crackdowns on Big Tech.
Though there were attack ads against him in 2017 for videos from his past.
Republicans are in idiots.
Any caucus is only as powerful as its deciding vote. The majority of Democrats support increased healthcare, and a significant amount support singlepayer. But a significant amount of Democrats are not the majority of seats in the House and Senate.
This is the calculus. Call your Republican congresspeople if you feel they are more amenable, or vote them out. Same with any Democrats who don't support single payer.
haha that's amazing, I was hoping for debauchery when all I got was some tipsy dorkiness. I see their point. You can't have a dork in the us congress, only facist enablers.
Still can't believe they both won. Warnock was obviously so much better than Loeffler, but I was worried about Ossoff
So this means no recount?
Ossoff lead has now grown to +0.62%, a solid 27K lead
Good! As long as his margins stay above 0.5% we won't have to deal with a delay caused by a recount.
Good Bye Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell!
New thread and suddenly the posting frequency plummets compared to how active the election thread was, lal.
Ossoff is anime and Warnock is talking Poggers. Georgia definitely came through and elected some awesome senators.
he probably wouldn't be caught dead here. but lets be honest. i bet he was on gaiaonline.com during the golden age.
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If a vote ends in a 50-50 tie, Harris is the tie breaker vote.
Ossoff helped mobilize youth and Jewish voters, while Warnock obviously helped supercharge the black vote. It was a good combination to run together. And they were both close with John Lewis.
Yeah, Dems need 10 Rs to overcome a filibuster. Unfortunately there are very, very few bills they could realistically expect 10 Republican yes votes on. So unless the filibuster is removed, everything Dems want to do will have to be crammed into the two budget reconciliation bills they get before the 2022 midterms.
On the other hand, since the filibuster is already gone for federal judge nominations, Biden can freely appoint judges to fill any vacancy that comes up over the next two years and each one will be confirmed on a party-line vote. Ditto for his cabinet.
Filibuster rules can be modified by a simple majority vote.
I don't expect them to completely nuke the filibuster, but yes if they don't change anything about how and when it's used they won't get anything through the Senate without 60 votes. This isn't Obama's first term anymore we and the Democratic Senators know the game the Republican Senators will try. So the Dems better at least do something.
