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Originally Posted by hi_im_god
does that say more about where the democratic party has moved or the republican?
playing footsie with the tea party while uniformly voting against social legislation just says there's no room for a nelson rockefeller or edward brooke in the republican party anymore.
the democrats remain a center-left party while the republicans have chosen to give up the center and become a european style strict discipline ideological party. it should be an interesting experiment.
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Perhaps you can make that assumption or you can make the assumption that the bill passed was so convoluted that it got no bipartisan and lost some democratic support.
I think more importantly what you can come away with is the idea that the GOP has been in lockstep against the other major social reforms passed in the past is fiction but you wouldn't know that from listening to the pundits.