Factually, that’s what he did during his time in office as well. I’m not sure what they thought had changed.

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    I wish every election could be this easy

    Remember to still vote, there was a time when too many people just didn’t because it was assured Hillary would win.

    Roe V. Wade was appealed and many women are dead now as a result

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      I know that the Republican party made this happen, but Democrats are absolutely complicit in letting it happen.

      Obama promised to codify Roe v Wade when he had a super majority, and he just didn’t. Why didn’t he?

      Ruth Bader Ginsberg could have retired and let us set a better judge into the Supreme Court, and yet the Dems somehow couldn’t look one presidential term into the future and try to have a contingency plan. Why?

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        Obama never had a supermajority. He got close but peaked at 59 senators in the senate and one in hospital. One shy of 60 is not enough.

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        He didnt codify roe because he didn’t have the votes. There were several “conservatives” democrat senators in the 2 yr span when they had a super majority, and they would not have voted for abortion protections at that time.

        He instead focused on something he could do, which was give 100s of millions of Americans a chance at healthcare. Even that had single payer attached until it was scuttled last minute by Joe Liberman, an independent that cacused with dems that refused to cast the deciding vote for the ACA with single payer attached because his state of Connecticut had several large insurers HQ’ed there. Obama wouldn’t have needed Liberman, but Ted Kennedy died, and his replacement was a Republican.

        RGB held on because she saw McConnel ratfuck Obama out of his Scalia replacement posting. She knew he would either get screwed again, or have to appoint someone conservative like Garland. So she waited for Hilary, who had a 70% of winning, but who didn’t.

        The only things Obama did wrong was try to bridge the partisan divide. He was doing politics like it used to be, with compromise at its core. He didn’t realize, or at least didn’t want to realize, that the GOP had made politics a game of winner takes all. If he had, he could have placed two supreme court justices and got single payer.

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        The voters are complicit too then. Too many people didn’t vote in 2016. Maybe you’re complicit too! Let’s all finger point at everyone other than the people that did the bad things!

        Or maybe we should just say the people doing the bad things are responsible for the bad things. Yeah I know taking things to a meta extremes is fashionable among intellectual types, but it’s really silly and doesn’t accomplish anything.

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        I know that the Republican party made this happen, but Democrats are absolutely complicit in letting it happen.

        The dems were singing some dumb bullshit on the steps after it got repealed. Fuck them, they’re 100% complicit