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(16,822 posts)Senate Dems need to start calling out their counterparts
There seems to be no fallout from anything Trump does..
No victories for the Democrats..this bill to weaken Frank-Dodd for instance. I've come to expect that this is the best thst we will ever see. Schumer constituency is obviously Wall St. and that constituency obviously was in favor of that Bill. While he didn't vote for it, he had no objection to 17 of his Democratic colleagues doing the heavy lifting.
That motion by Bernie Sanders and Amy Klobuchar to allow American to buy prescription drugs from Canada to be considered back in January was killed by 13 Democrats and when they were called out for it they voted for a related amendment a week or two later .
We even snatch defeat from the jaws of victory