Some Democrats are already and have already spoken out against this compromise. I’m too lazy to link, find Sen. Leahy.
But it’s be days late and dollars short to me as well if Reid lets this slip by. It’s enough to make me consider being a disullisioned progressive and skip voting altogether.
A living example of how devasating the centrist and media-driven CW (**compromise! or be scarrrrry radicals!) is to the chances of a successful Democratic party. |
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This is a defining moment for US lawmakers, I agree. I don’t know what the Democrats can do, though. As I understand it, no amendments in the House were allowed. Add to that the fact that it’s a 94(or so) page bill, with hardly any time for study or debate. The pressure is strong to pass something, anything, so that the GOP pols can go home to brag about it. The reality is, that not having the power to propose their own legislation, since no Republican would be caught dead voting for a Democrat’s bill, they have to depend on the saner members of the Senate to check the flaws in what’s being proposed. Just voting ’no’ is a bad option, without the ability to propose amendments or alternate legislation. The Democrats can only talk, briefly, they don’t have the power to shape.
The whole process of how bills become laws stinks to high heaven. That’s why we end up with such lousy laws. |
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