LurkerJ said:
There were ways to circumvent these two and do more, I am not mentally equipped to explain this myself now as it's been long time. I will dig up the articles regarding this (or not, I will see how motivated I am later, I am just BLEH about it all now). This is the dems need to work on, it's almost as if they're too happy to ditch progressive policies. |
Of course, there were ways, but none were without risk, especially since later on Kyrsten became independent and Manchin is one of the most right-leaning democrats, circumventing their constant opposition could have led them to vote against bills out of spite or worse change party affiliation which would have strip dems of senate control.