• Gork@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    This guy almost singlehandedly eliminated the public option for healthcare in this country.

    For that he can get fucked.

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      6 months ago

      No, HE DID. The dems needed his vote to pass the ACA, and he made them get rid of the single payer option.

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        6 months ago

        He had help. Ben Nelson deserves as much blame as the Democratic Party’s vp nominee.

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        6 months ago

        Obits are usually written years before someone dies. What is included and not included is on purpose. Obit writer is a full time job for big papers. A good obit writer has a massive trove of them written about living folks. Its not (currently) a bot thing.