• partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    There’s always rhetoric, but completely shutting out the opposition for major legislation was just not done.

    History doesn’t support your statement.

    Feel free to show me legislation that was later signed during the first quarter of the Obama administration that wasn’t passed on nearly party lines. I took a look and couldn’t find any.

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      8 hours ago

      There wasn’t any, because of the move to block Republicans from the ACA. It’s just like when the Democrats used the nuclear option for judges, it also bit them in the ass the second they were the minority party.

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        3 hours ago

        There wasn’t any, because of the move to block Republicans from the ACA.

        Wait, are you saying the the GOP only after the ACA passing on Democrat party line vote decided they would vote party line for every substantive legislative action?