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The liberal democrats have control of both houses of congress and the White House.
What's the hold-up?
If the healthcare bill is so great for the American people, then why not just ram it through?
Liberals have labelled the townhall meetings a farce, and have made it quite clear that they are not representative of anything but a bunch of rightie loons.
Why wait any longer? Get 'er done!!! Full steam ahead!!!
What's the matter? No guts? No testicularity? Political feet getting cold?
The liberal democrats have control of both houses of congress and the White House.
What's the hold-up?
If the healthcare bill is so great for the American people, then why not just ram it through?
Liberals have labelled the townhall meetings a farce, and have made it quite clear that they are not representative of anything but a bunch of rightie loons.
Why wait any longer? Get 'er done!!! Full steam ahead!!!
What's the matter? No guts? No testicularity? Political feet getting cold?
They're spinless, bought out by lobbyists and they take the left's support for granted so they pander to the right. If you want to get health care done right instead of giving the insurance industry a bailout, sign this petition. Change We Can Believe In
By the way, I wouldn't call the Dems in control of Congress and the Senate liberal, especially the Senate Dems. They are way to bought out by the powerful industries and their lobbyists to be liberal.
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With the exception of the Emergency Banking Act of 1933 (which gave the president authority to close the nation’s banks and which passed the House of Representatives unanimously), the principal legislative innovations of the 1930s were enacted over the vigorous opposition of a deeply entrenched minority. Majority rule, as Roosevelt saw it, did not require his opponents’ permission. ...
It is difficult for Americans today to comprehend how anyone could have opposed Social Security, rural electrification, the regulation of Wall Street or the federal government’s guarantee of individual bank deposits.
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With the exception of the Emergency Banking Act of 1933 (which gave the president authority to close the nation’s banks and which passed the House of Representatives unanimously), the principal legislative innovations of the 1930s were enacted over the vigorous opposition of a deeply entrenched minority. Majority rule, as Roosevelt saw it, did not require his opponents’ permission. ...
It is difficult for Americans today to comprehend how anyone could have opposed Social Security, rural electrification, the regulation of Wall Street or the federal government’s guarantee of individual bank deposits.
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i notice that you did not mention roosevelt's gold confiscation order in your response, since that was certainly one sad day in american history.
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