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I'm old enough to remember when everyone agreed you needed 60 votes to pass anything in the Senate.
Curious how the Iran bomb money and the Israel genocide money always keeps getting through.
The United States has spent over $14 trillion on cumulative defense and national security since 2002. Curiously, we still aren't any safer than we were the day before the 9/11 attacks.
At a certain glorious the Dow was over 50,000, though
But you have more debt, an overall worse societal outcome ... and a few people got insanely rich. Did you say 'Thank you!' once?
Bin Laden won
He was never the issue to begin with and I bet he is still alive.
You never needed 60 votes to pass anything in the Senate. What you need 60 votes for is to decide to stop arguing and hold the actual vote. Voting for cloture doesn't necessarily mean you intend to vote for whatever is being discussed.
It's entirely possible that Democrats voted for cloture specifically because they knew it didn't have the votes to pass, so why not just hold the vote and get it over with.
Used to need 60 votes to confirm secretaries and judges, dems canned that but left it for scotus position, only for the rep to take that away
Arguably the sealed metal doors on plane cockpits are safer but they didn't cost 14 Trillion.
On the Airbus, maybe.
Boeing? I wouldn't bank on it
That's a good point. There's probably a realistic comparison between the danger from hijackings and the dangers of deregulation.