Only if, like MAGAts, you disbelieve in basic math.
There were two Republican yes votes who slept through the vote.
ALL THREE people would have had to survive to have had a chance of defeating the vote.
There were two Republican yes votes who slept through the vote.
ALL THREE people would have had to survive to have had a chance of defeating the vote.
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in 24 hours, Connolly's expiration has secured the house GOP's passage of a bill that strips trans people of basic healthcare under medicaid/ACA, liquidates a super majority of upper education's funding (including ~all grad loans), eliminates ~all IRA climate and green energy related funding, & more
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The point is that if Dems didn't have a culture of permissiveness around running old, sick, and mentally enfeebled candidates and pressured them to step down (and they actually had), then Dems would have had the votes.
It's not about any one person, it's about the overall culture!
The GOP majority would still exist. Your counterfactual requires several things to be true; the most important of which is, were every Democrat elected still alive those GOP no votes would have been the same.
We've seen this repeatedly. No turns to yes when it makes a difference.
the main take away here is that we shouldn't have elected representatives who have one foot in the grave, right? as a functional opposition party, we don't want to do that, right? so that we can stop the GOP?
The main takeaways are: 1) you refuse to adhere to reality 2) bc you would prefer to blame dead people than the live fascists you still need to contend with.
Want me to help you add 1+1+1 - 2 = 1?
Actually, I'm not. I'm spotting you a dead person. Harris would have voted yes if Dems had had one more Dem.
So EVEN WITH ALL THREE DEAD PEOPLE, the fascists still win.
So maybe focus on the fascists rather than the dead people? You know, something you can do something about?
Reality check for Dems: The 3 who stood their ground might have exacted worse cuts just for the House to say it got something passed.
I’m willing to say replacing Connolly would have been worth it to force one of those R’s to wake up and get on the record