• Tar_Alcaran
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    186 months ago

    Didn’t Obama try to come up with a healthcare solution that was undermined by conservatives? Which Trump tried to neuter as hard as possible?

    Didn’t Biden try to forgive student loans, which conservatives kept stopping?

    I feel the “both sides are doing it” argument isn’t entirely true.

    • @Alph4d0g@discuss.tchncs.de
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      06 months ago

      With respect, it looked like a “try” in many cases but consider his decades in politics and knowing likely outcomes of any given proposal. Then consider his best of the best, Ivy League-educated cabinet, advising him on every chess move. If you don’t look at both sides, you might find yourself in a disingenuous ruse.

      I tried but what could I do?
      How could I have known Joe Manshun would say no?
      We didn’t have a filibuster proof majority (which we could have eliminated with a simple rule change like we did with the debt ceiling- but oddly didn’t for infrastructure).
      Oh those legal challenges came out of left field and our best and brightest from Harvard never saw it coming.
      I co-authored the bankruptcy bill that exempted student debt when I was a Senator but now my intentions are different. Student debtors, I’m on your side now. Don’t you see?