Dems’ game-changing bid to ram through their entire agenda via a budget bill, with a razor-slim majority

NY Post ^ | 10/01/2021 | David Harsanyi

[Oshkalaboomboom]

There was a time not very long ago when political parties never would have entertained the idea of jamming through any massive, generational reform without some form of buy-in from the other party.

Today, Democrats argue that the filibuster’s imaginary threat of “minority rule” has compelled them to use (really, abuse) the budgetary reconciliation process to jam through their entire agenda in the most expensive bill in American history.

In the days before the Affordable Care Act fight forever changed the Senate, nearly every major post-war reform bill easily passed the 60-vote threshold: The Civil Rights Act got 73 votes in the Senate; Medicare and Medicaid got 68; the Voting Rights Act had 77; the Clean Air Act passed with 73; Ronald Reagan’s 1981 tax-reform bill got 89; the 1996 welfare-reform bill had 74; No Child Left Behind got 91; and the PATRIOT Act had 98, just to name a few.

Certainly, this is not to contend that simply because a bill can attract bipartisan support it is a good one. But the idea that government can’t function with the filibuster in place is a notion debunked by history. It is true that the filibuster stops a party that is intent on governing unilaterally and steamrolling half the country using a razor-slim, fleeting majority. Or, at least, it once did. Which only means the filibuster was working.

And if the ideological chasm between the parties is too wide to forge compromise, then it’s not the time for Washington to be passing wide-ranging generational legislation anyway. Nothing in the Constitution says a party must pass big, transformational bills. It’s a choice.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

For Democrats, the consequence of ObamaCare was the loss of 1,000 seats nationally, including in state legislatures, and, perhaps, the presidency of Donald Trump.

And yet Obamacare is still here, Democrats are back in power and they are working on an agenda that will make Obamacare look like it was created by Ronald Reagan. One thing about the Dems is they know how to play the long game.

[Veggie Todd]

C’mon, Man. It’s gonna cost $0.

[Still Thinking]

Like they don’t filibuster when they’re in the minority.

[Az Joe]

Commies never quit. They have to be killed AND dismembered.

[Mr. N. Wolfe]

“One thing about the Dems is they know how to play the long game.”

They have a lot in common with their soul mates, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

[ConservativeMind]

There does not need to be any coordinating among Democrats, because they already know the goal is chaos.

That is always an easier goal than to build up or do good.

[jonrick46]

Spot on! Both Commies, the DemonKKKrats and the CCP use incrementalism to accomplish their agenda in the long run. Both are a plague on the fabric of humanity that needs another shot of the Trump vaccine.