I don't remember where I read it but I believe early on Rahm admitted they believed yes there will be a hard-core group of GOPers who refuse to vote for stimulus, but as the popularity of it increases they will become smaller and more marginalized on later votes.
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Republican weakness doesn't account for sidelining the likes of Emmanuel and Summers.
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Don't believe for a minute that Obama handed off the ACA negotiations to Max Baucus -- to spend 3 months fruitlessly wooing Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe -- because he was fully informed about the GOP intentions. I just don't buy it.
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This just doesn’t make sense agreed
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Corey Robin is always always always wrong about American politics.
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I don't see how this thread isn't obviously ludicrous. The Republicans are less powerful now, with 50 senate seats and 213 House seats, than they were in 2009 with 41 and 178?
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He’s wrong tho. Or at least partly wrong.
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I think he’s wrong about the GOP being weaker than 2009, though. The whole country is weaker at this point, and if anything, the gains Republicans made during the Obama and then Trump years are a relative gain.
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No. This is an attempt at rewriting history. Ds had 60 votes in the Senate at the time, Obama clearly felt he had been elected to transcend partisanship, and all the media talked about were swing voters. We lived through it. We remember.
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If memory serves, the Democrats were more afraid of Joe Lieberman than of the Republicans.
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