If Kay Hagan (NC) was still in the Senate,
if Mary Landrieu (LA) was still in the Senate,
If Mark Pryor/Blanche Lincoln (AR) were still in the Senate,
If Jay Rockefeller (WV) was still in the Senate,
If Byron Dorgan and Kent Conrad (Dakotas) were still in the Senate…. and more
If any 2-3 of them still had their seat this awful bill would have failed.
Even Max Baucus would have voted against this bill.
Senate Democrats of any description were UNITED against this abomination of a bill. You don’t like Joe Manchin? He voted against this bill. You don’t like Mark Warner? He voted against this shitty tax bill.
The ONLY time to be a purist is when you have an overwhelming majority which has not happened in our lifetime.