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Has anyone realized if this were not true, the GOP would be spending their time formulating mainstream 2014 and 2016 campaigns to win the other chambers, which would make the elimination of A/C/A through democratic, conventional means a reality?
Perhaps they should ask Harry Reid how he got to 60. LOL!
Wikipedia covers it pretty well. Here's the starting snip, you can click to read the rest:
"With the Republican minority in the Senate vowing to filibuster any bill that they did not support, requiring a cloture vote to end debate, 60 votes would be necessary to get passage in the Senate.[91] At the start of the 111th Congress, Democrats had only 58 votes; the Senate seat in Minnesota that would be won by Al Franken was still undergoing a recount, and Arlen Specter was still a Republican.
To reach 60 votes, negotiations were undertaken ..."
Partisan politics aside, once the government collapses, we'll see a 100% reduction in Federal spending.
That should really make everyone happy.
Bolds mine because you forgot to put the partisan politics aside.
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