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Pirate Smile

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Fri Sep-16-11 11:04 PM
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97. As if that Senate was going to pass legislation to create a system like they have in Sweden,

Edited on Fri Sep-16-11 11:05 PM by Pirate Smile

Canada or France.

Stop blaming Rahm for the limits of the friggin Senate. We had to have all 60 votes - that means Ben Nelson, Blanche Lincoln, Lieberman, Landrieu.

I know we could have gotten something more progressive through the House. I know the President would have signed it. The problem was the Senate. It always was. The reforms this article is about could not have happened through Reconciliation. It needed 60 votes.

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