Yay neoliberalism!

There are always enough Manchins.

But dont you know? We "have" to run conservatives in "purple" areas or we wont win?

/S /S /S /S

Or alternatively, " We don't actually give a single fuck about our campaign or your political priorities. We don't want the policies you do, we just want you to get us into power"

Right, I'm very forgetful I apologize, I suppose from Sept 25 2009 to February 4th they had 58 + 2 making 60, Although technically Roland Buris wasn't actually appointed to the vacant seat left by Obama until January, meaning they were filibuster proof for 2 months.

During that time very few laws were passed but the number of Public Law numbers went from 111-63 to 111-138, most of them being the appointment of new government postal buildings and a couple veteran affairs buildings, but also including mandates Human Rights that the Justice Department had to start respecting.

I feel like they could have done better with more time than that, but you've made an excellent point and I concede there.

I welcome you and your option to vote green, I hope that it's a viable choice in the upcoming election or at least that your representative gets enough votes and signatures to keep the party on the ballot next election cycle. I agree that the DNC is far too moderate as a whole to fully align with my goals. I'm sure my representatives will love caucusing and working alongside them. However, my expectations for a third party before any campaign finance laws or election reforms pass are very low, and if your district is highly contested between DNC and GOP and you decide to piss your vote away on a candidate with 6% chance, then you're just committing self harm in my eyes.

Nah actually they were right, there was a supermajority for over a month in 2010 that I forgot about.