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goobster · 2695 days ago · link · · parent · post: Health Care Overhaul Collapses as Two Republican Senators Defect
It's interesting that the narrative across the board is that it is these TWO Senators who have torpedoed the health care plan, when it is actually FIVE people who have defected. The last two are just the icing on the cake. One one of them was needed. And we got two. But what about the other three? (Ok, we can skip over Rand Paul. He votes no on everything just out of principle. But that still leaves two others who grew a spine LONG before the last two defectors. Why do the last two get the credit, rather than the first two being hailed as the leaders and the last two as followers? Interesting narrative choice.)