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JayhawkSD

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24. Why didn't we do that under Bush?

Reply to Merlot (Reply #6)

Tue Oct 16, 2018, 02:53 PM

Oct 2018

I happen to agree with you, that passing good legislation and making an opposition president veto it is a better way. It makes him/her the bad element.

But we didn'yt do that. We simply never attempted to pass the legislation, whimpering that if we did Bush would veto it. So we never made him actually do it. It made him look better and made us look like a bunch of whiners.

I suspect Democrats never wanted to pass the legislation anyway, because it was better for their corporate donors not to do so.

Do not think that they will do anything for us if they regain the majority, for the same reason they didn't last time. They will do what favors their corporate donors, not what is in our interest.

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