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The Magistrate

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6. I Like That, Sir

Reply to Yavin4 (Reply #5)

Sun Sep 27, 2020, 11:08 AM

Sep 2020

It has had a sort of trial run recently with the Affordable Care Act.

When legislation brings actual benefit to people, overturning it is unpopular, which places the enemy in an even deeper hole.

As the old bosses used to say 'Good policy is good politics'.

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It's dangerous when the minority party rules everyone else [View all] dajoki Sep 2020 OP

+1. A retrograde white minority is establishing rule radius777 Sep 2020 #1

yep, lots of 1930 Germans would say the same as an even smaller minority took over Germany beachbumbob Sep 2020 #2

This is only true because of 2 things: Yavin4 Sep 2020 #3

The Second Item, Sir, Is the Most Unfortunate The Magistrate Sep 2020 #4

The only way to get Republicans to moderate is to legislate big things. Yavin4 Sep 2020 #5

I Like That, Sir The Magistrate Sep 2020 #6

Almost every time that the Medicaid expansion is put on the ballot, it wins. Yavin4 Sep 2020 #7