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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: albaby1 ✶❂ SILVER
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Subject: Re: Paging Dope1, Mike, Righties
Date: 09/12/24 7:34 PM
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Really? Do the words "I won" and "Elections have consequences" ring a bell?

Sure - Obama's rhetorical effort to project political power beyond what he actually had. An echo of George Bush's affirmation that he had political capital and intended to spend it.

But Obama was only able to get done what he did because he briefly had what the GOP hasn't had for a century - a filibuster-proof Senate majority. Outside of that? A list of failed disappointments for his agenda. The DREAM act dead. EFCA dead. ENDA dead. His climate change bill dead.

The GOP seems gripped by the delusion that all that's necessary to achieve significant changes in US federal government policy is "courage" or "strength" or "will," rather than "a filibuster-proof majority" or "cutting a deal with members of the other party."
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