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Ah Bernie, what could have been...
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That's right. Filibuster proof control for 4 months of the last 24 years.
You can go even further, filibuster proof control for 4 months of the last 44 years.
They also refused to get rid of the filibuster. They could have done it any time after it became clear that filibustering everything was the new playbook, around about 2012. This has been a problem for over a decade now and Democrats pretend they can't just change the rule.
They could have also reformed it to require physical presence and actually filibustering, instead of being possible via email from the tropics. Then again, with the average age and health of Congress, that would likely put a significant limit on its effectiveness as a tactic (I don't believe for a second that McConnell has the physical endurance to actually filibuster even a single bill).
And even more, they pretend like Republicans won't change the rule. If parliamentary democracy required a supermajority to do anything, every government would fall.
It only requires a supermajority to do something the other party doesn't want to do