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The first thing I'll do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BdrOrwmk78Y
Im pro choice https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nmzdkAbu8dY
Not my highest priority https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RxiDZejZFjg
parody... No https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1z4uhxpOnN0
Obama had a filibuster proof senate for three weeks, he could have given you a proper health care WITH a public option, but he did a giveaway to big pharma instead. Also could have done Roe at that time...
I hope you guys watch Obama speak in the videos. It's mind boggling...
Tell me you don't understand Congress without telling me you don't understand Congress.
Three weeks is fucking nothing, especially for a contentious issue.
Three weeks is a long time if you are prepared.
Not in national legislature in this country. Honest question - have you checked out the process for passing bills in Congress? Not being a smart-ass or anything. It's fucking byzantine and reliant on everyone in a slim majority (or slim supermajority, depending on what you're trying to do) 100% playing ball. Sometimes it's also reliant on the opposition playing ball. It's insane. It's dysfunctional in the extreme. And during Obama's term, that dysfunction became worse than ever - either (depending on who you ask) because it had been steadily getting worse since the 90s, or because Obama was Black and the GOP took that opportunity to pander to their most racist supporters by being mindlessly obstructionist (or some mixture of both).
I blame the blue dog Democrats who neutralized that majority, not Obama.
US politics is just professional wrestling, the sooner you understand that, the better. Usually the GOP are the bad guys, but this time it was the blue dog democrats... Whatever it takes to keep the class helping policy from being passed. R's don't want class helping policy passed and D's don't want class helping policy passed. D's pretend they want it, though.