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Topic	Another Florida state representative switches from Democrat to Republican
MLBloomy 12/27/24 6:48:01 PM #25:	DiScOrDtHeLuNaTiC posted... Yeah. Wanna switch parties? Wait until after your term is over. Of course, while this doesn't mean you can't vote against your 'offical' party interests, it does prevent you from tipping the balance (like that skank here in NC who went from Dem to GOP and gave the fuckers a veto-proof supermajority). If you can vote against your party line, then there's no tipping the balance. That veto-proof supermajority in NC only worked if were no defections. Keeping that in mind, we might not have gotten Obamacare without a party switch. The Democrats wouldn't have gotten to a filibuster proof supermajority in the Senate in late 2009 if Arlen Specter hadn't gotten fed up with Republicans and switched to the Democrats in the spring. That got the Democratic caucus to 59 (57 D + 2 I), with Republicans challenging Al Franken's win in Minnesota, plus Ted Kennedy was absent because of his brain cancer. After Franken was finally declared the winner and Kennedy died and a temp Senator was named, the Democrats had 60 and began working on the first ACA bill. <cite>MLBloomy posted [p:983449054] in Another Fl... [t:80908708]...</cite> <quote>DiScOrDtHeLuNaTiC posted... </cite><quote>Yeah. Wanna switch parties? Wait until after your term is over.Of course, while this doesn't mean you can't vote against your 'offical' party interests, it does prevent you from tipping the balance (like that skank here in NC who went from Dem to GOP and gave the fuckers a veto-proof supermajority).</quote>If you can vote against your party line, then there's no tipping the balance. That veto-proof supermajority in NC only worked if were no defections.Keeping that in mind, we might not have gotten Obamacare without a party switch. The Democrats wouldn't have gotten to a filibuster proof supermajority in the Senate in late 2009 if Arlen Specter hadn't gotten fed up with Republicans and switched to the Democrats in the spring. That got the Democratic caucus to 59 (57 D + 2 I), with Republicans challenging Al Franken's win in Minnesota, plus Ted Kennedy was absent because of his brain cancer. After Franken was finally declared the winner and Kennedy died and a temp Senator was named, the Democrats had 60 and began working on the first ACA bill.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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