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Originally Posted by Sausage
Though now that its a hair away from being a 1 party system, isn't that a bad thing? Whether you are a Republican or a Democrat surely you don't want 1 party to have ultimate power.. thats not how democracy is supposed to work.
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How is democracy supposed to work?
The people vote but those votes only count if one party doesn't get too many of them?
I'm sure conservatives are crying doom and gloom over this but TBH, it doesn't change much except the speed at which the Dems will be able to do things.
Republicans won't be able to throw as many procedural hurdles in the way to delay things. They already didn't have enough votes to flat out stop things.
With Franken being all but a sure thing from MN, all the dems needed was one defection to get past a filibuster anyways.....and on the biggest issue they'll take up this session, health care, they were going to use the reconciliation process so that a filibuster wouldn't have been possible anyways.
