Re: [Marxism] Senate to Middle Class: Drop Dead ...a message from Michael Moore

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Eli wrote:
>Harry Reid accepting a "loss" when "only" 51 Senators supported an 
>agreement, allowing a whopping 35 (!) Republicans to "win" the 
>debate by pretending, as he has over and over, that the Republicans 
>were capable of, and would have, filibustered indefinitely and that 
>therefore without 60 votes "nothing can be done."

I have been too busy with other stuff to analyze this in depth but 
there is something very weird about this vote. Here you have Bush and 
the Dems supporting aid for the big 3 auto companies, but it does not 
pass because why? Because the Republicans would have filibustered? So 
the Dems need 60 votes to push through "progressive" legislation? By 
this calculation, they can always use the excuse of a Republican 
filibuster to "go back to the drawing board" and come up with a 
proposal that is acceptable to everyone. A sure-fire formula for 
screwing working people, if you ask me. 


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