• TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
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    7 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@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

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

    • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
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      7 months ago

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

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        7 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.