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Bettie

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4. If they can kill the bill

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #1)

Mon Oct 18, 2021, 03:28 PM

Oct 2021

they never have to go on record as voting for something that helps people...either as supporting it (makes large donors angry) or supporting it (makes people who would benefit angry).

They get to eternally be both for and against it.

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Cutting Massive Bill Threatens to Blow Up Progressive Unity [View all] Celerity Oct 2021 OP

Maybe that is the goal on the part of certain senators. Irish_Dem Oct 2021 #1

yes, certain forces, small in number but great in power, want to break them on the wheel Celerity Oct 2021 #2

If they can kill the bill Bettie Oct 2021 #4

Good point on the game they are playing. Irish_Dem Oct 2021 #5

The CPC could support Do Less Better, then hold the debt ceiling hostage for the rest Fiendish Thingy Oct 2021 #3

the howls of outrage from a certain small but extremely loud group will be deafening Celerity Oct 2021 #6