Technically you need 51 or 50 + VP tiebreaker unless a Republican filibusters then you need 60.
You can change senate rules if you have a comfortable majority but I’m pretty sure they can filibuster that, too, and it might backfire like removing the filibuster for SCOTUS and cabinet picks has.
Yes and, they also needed to break a filibuster by the Republicans, which took 60 votes in the Senate, despite severe illness and Republican shenanigans. It was a huge lift to get what we got.
He never seriously fought for universal healthcare. He stopped advocating for it before he even started fighting. As soon as he got a “reality check”, not a word of support for universal healthcare was ever uttered by him to the best of my knowledge. Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, though.
Kennedy got to the the moon. (Posthumously)
Clinton eliminated the deficit.
Obama did not achieve universal health care.
Congress wouldn’t let him. The President doesn’t write the laws and can only ask Congress to do so.
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Progressives would need to down ballot vote for that to happen. Would also need to support and fund progressive candidates.
Progressives currently can’t even do the bare minimum (actually voting), in large enough numbers to matter.
Of course not!
They’re doing something far more critical and effective!
They’re withholding votes based on purity testing and otherwise being manipulated into nullifying themselves by online manipulation by the right.
Technically you need 51 or 50 + VP tiebreaker unless a Republican filibusters then you need 60.
You can change senate rules if you have a comfortable majority but I’m pretty sure they can filibuster that, too, and it might backfire like removing the filibuster for SCOTUS and cabinet picks has.
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Executive order deporting anyone in senate not voting for his agenda?
/s (but only for a few months, then headlines will explain how it’s apparently a real option)
Yes and, they also needed to break a filibuster by the Republicans, which took 60 votes in the Senate, despite severe illness and Republican shenanigans. It was a huge lift to get what we got.
The funny thing is, americans already kinda have universal healthcare… just with a middleman. Where do they think those insurance premiums are going?
There’s still a significant amount of people who are uninsured. So, no, Americans do not have universal healthcare.
Universal Healthcare (behind a paywall)
He never seriously fought for universal healthcare. He stopped advocating for it before he even started fighting. As soon as he got a “reality check”, not a word of support for universal healthcare was ever uttered by him to the best of my knowledge. Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, though.
This is exactly it. Obama waged no fight a pre negotiated good healthcare plan to get us the heritage plan.
He did give free or extremely cheap healthcare to tens of millions of americans and brought down proces nationwide by creating competition.
And if not for independent Joe Leiberman being the holdout for the 60 it took to pass any form of the bill he would have accomplished more.
I think just a few parts of his skull made it to the moon.