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Old 05-05-2022, 12:08 PM   #4176
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But it's not wrong that people expect more from the officials that they voted in and that the gun fails more than 1% of the time. There are mechanisms in place.

For instance, they could make BBB better so that Manchin approves it, ie, protecting energy while still addressing climate change instead of a massive new green deal. And then Democrats throw up their hands saying that the Senate is undemocratic.
Sure - they could. But the BBB that Manchin approves won't be the one that Rubecube wants.

I just dislike the idea that Democrats fully control everything that happens in government and the Republicans are some kind of robotic evil creature that is easily stopped if the Democrats just did something different.
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