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FBaggins

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1. What makes you think they didn't?

Reply to Baconator (Original post)

Thu Mar 7, 2019, 11:47 AM

Mar 2019

Democrats held up court nominees... including outright blocking by not even holding hearings. They also changed the rules of the game to get nominees through in spite of filibusters.

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What could Democrats have gained if they played the same sort of "hardball" in recent decades? [View all] Baconator Mar 2019 OP

What makes you think they didn't? FBaggins Mar 2019 #1

I think we did not play hardball enough mitch96 Mar 2019 #2