12-20-2016, 02:00 PM
(10-23-2016, 11:21 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: It's not clear to me how that differs from how Democrats viewed GWBush in the 2000 election.
It's not hard to see. Bush ran on tax cuts. If Democrats had opposed Bush's agenda as Republicans did with Obama, the Republicans would have needed 60 votes to pass them. Both would have failed. Both passed--Democrats did not filibuster his electoral promises since he did win. When Obama ran on universal health care and won, Republicans did filibuster his effort to fulfill his cmapaign promise. He won, but Republicans did not care--his voters were not real Americans and so don't count as much.