Anytime I see an announcement about voting on a bill that seems even remotely desirable, I just assume it won't pass. I'm basically always right and it saves some grief.
Or a watered down useless/pointless version of it will pass where the consequences might as well be non-existent.
Like condemning dragons that kidnap princesses. Ok, that's exaggerated bullshit, but I can't remember what they actually did condemn in the past year or so that was made-up nonsense. It was meaningless.
That cynicism is acceptable for the Senate.
The venn diagram for legislation that gets 50 democrats on board and 10 republicans is razor thin. They can barely keep up with essential shit like not defaulting in order to prevent a catastrophic global economic meltdown. The literal bare minimum is now what we look to for an example of bipartisanship.
Anytime I see an announcement about voting on a bill that seems even remotely desirable, I just assume it won't pass. I'm basically always right and it saves some grief.
Or a watered down useless/pointless version of it will pass where the consequences might as well be non-existent.
Like condemning dragons that kidnap princesses. Ok, that's exaggerated bullshit, but I can't remember what they actually did condemn in the past year or so that was made-up nonsense. It was meaningless.
That cynicism is acceptable for the Senate.
The venn diagram for legislation that gets 50 democrats on board and 10 republicans is razor thin. They can barely keep up with essential shit like not defaulting in order to prevent a catastrophic global economic meltdown. The literal bare minimum is now what we look to for an example of bipartisanship.