• PugJesus@lemmy.worldOP
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    6 months ago

    Obama had a filibuster proof senate for three weeks

    Tell me you don’t understand Congress without telling me you don’t understand Congress.

    Three weeks is fucking nothing, especially for a contentious issue.

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        6 months ago

        Not in national legislature in this country. Honest question - have you checked out the process for passing bills in Congress? Not being a smart-ass or anything. It’s fucking byzantine and reliant on everyone in a slim majority (or slim supermajority, depending on what you’re trying to do) 100% playing ball. Sometimes it’s also reliant on the opposition playing ball. It’s insane. It’s dysfunctional in the extreme. And during Obama’s term, that dysfunction became worse than ever - either (depending on who you ask) because it had been steadily getting worse since the 90s, or because Obama was Black and the GOP took that opportunity to pander to their most racist supporters by being mindlessly obstructionist (or some mixture of both).