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Gen Z (and younger millennial) Twitter has noticed that there were briefly 60 Democrats in the Senate in 2009 and are mad.

Posted by Tim (aka othertim) May 10 '22, 20:54

That things like Medicare For All and codifying Roe and other things didn’t occur.

Ah yes, because the Democratic senators from *checks notes* Arkansas, North and South Dakota, Louisiana and West Virginia were famously advocating for M4A, and were thrown out of office for only passing a watered down ACA!

(Which was filibustered by the GOP until Al Franken was seated, which didn’t happen until July.)

Responses:

You don’t normally waste time codifying things that at the time considered settled law. So, there’s that. -- nm* - Qale May 10, 22:36 1
- That's not accurate. The Senate is very good at wasting time. -- nm - Baruno May 11, 06:02
*smgdh* -- nm - znufrii May 10, 20:57 2
- (Fwiw, I’m still pissed we didn’t get a public option, but whatevs) -- nm* - znufrii May 10, 20:59 1
  - What we got was the only thing that was going to pass. -- nm - Tim May 10, 21:03

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