West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, a conservative Democrat, officially filed as an independent Friday. “My commitment to do everything I can to bring out country together has led me to register as …
  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    7 months ago

    Does Biden have enough progressives to get more progressive stuff passed? No. Two conservative democrats block that.

    The party will always find just enough no votes, no matter how big a majority we give them.

      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        7 months ago

        2008? When we gave Democrats a supermajority and they found enough no votes to kill the public option? When we gave the Democrats a supermajority and they didn’t bother to codify Roe? That 2008?