Ask yourself this question: would any bill that is good for the American people garner 83 votes in the Senate, including at least 30 Rats?
42 Rat votes! Must be an awful bill for America
There are a lot of potential reasons it could have garnered 83 Senate votes, including vulnerable Democrats who want to be on record as being bipartisan.
Is this bill perfect? No. But just like with any other bill that has to pass a divided Congress, the question is whether it’s good enough. And to judge that, you can’t look at just this bill. People act as if this bill represents the sum total of all our legislation. If it’s not in the bill, it’s not going to happen.
We know that’s not true. There are other laws on the books which are just as much law as this one will be. There is legislation that authorizes POTUS to do much that is not contained in this bill, and likely allow him to get around much of what is objectionable in the bill.