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In response to "to change directions, can anyone offer a defence of why the US Senate should be run under what is effectively a supermajority rule?" by Reagen

Depends what the issue is and isn't that the rub? People don't think it should be a loss when they agree with the legislation. -- nm

Posted by Name Withheld By Request (aka BlueKopo) Jan 19 '10, 15:15

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It doesn't depend what the issue is there now, which is the point. But imagine Parliament if the Bloq could effectively veto everything. -- nm - Reagen Jan 19, 15:17 6
- If the hardline positions remain on all legislation, sure, but I wouldn't react too quickly to the politics of the immediate on this one. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Jan 19, 15:24 5
  - This isn't just about health care. They've gone to plaid. -- (link) - Reagen Jan 19, 15:26 4
    - During a eight-year period our of a country approaching two hundred and fifty years old. - Name Withheld By Request Jan 19, 15:30 3
      - Effectively they do. - Reagen Jan 19, 15:35 1
        
        Effectively they do. I'm asking...Do you agree with that here? Or would you like to see it changed? - Name Withheld By Request Jan 19, 15:37
      - "out" -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Jan 19, 15:31

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