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Re:Peter Thiel To Join Trump Transition Team by Turing_Machine on Thursday November 10, 2016 @11:25PM (#12927796)
I'm trying to figure out if the person who wrote that doesn't understand how Congress works, or is simply being deceptive.

The only "myth" there is pretending that it requires a filibuster-proof majority to pass any legislation.

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Re:Peter Thiel To Join Trump Transition Team by skj on Thursday November 10, 2016 @11:34PM (#12927872)
The truth of that "myth" was well established during Obama's tenure.
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Re:Peter Thiel To Join Trump Transition Team by Turing_Machine on Thursday November 10, 2016 @11:38PM (#12927895)
Nope.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_option

They could have done that on day one.

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Re:Peter Thiel To Join Trump Transition Team by Turing_Machine on Friday November 11, 2016 @12:18AM (#12928150)
Why the downvote? The Dems clearly had the power to use the nuclear option (and in fact they did use it later in Obama's term, so this isn't just theoretical).
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