Reply #23: Well it looks good on paper, I'll have to say that. But Ozymanithrax

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brings up a good point about the reality:

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18. Unless there are 60 credible votes in the Senate...

and a majority of credible votes in the house, it will not even be addressed. This is an election year, and the right has convinced a sizable minority of people that Democrats are socialists. (The accusation is so ridiculous that it is hard to understand how anyone with two neurons to rub together would believe it.) An attempt would not play well on main street.

Any congressman in a moderate district that was taken by the Democrats in 2006 or 2008 would immediately become leans Republican. Most Americans have already forgotten what it was like under Republican rule with Bush. It would be very ugly indeed.

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Sigh. Gotta agree with that, too.

Again, I have to say, I just can't believe the enormity of this nightmare on so many levels.