106473 t1_iym7ee2 wrote
Reply to comment by International-Trash- in Pat Toomey was one of the 43 Senators who killed sick leave for rail workers by GraffitiTavern
It's all good, Rand Paul once tried to get a line item bill passed that would make it so only one issue was in each bill but surprise surprise not passed.
SomePaddy t1_iymawxz wrote
Unpopular take: pork barrel politics used to be the driver of bipartisanship, and it's kind of a bad thing that it's gone.
You don't like voting to support sick leave for rail workers? No problem, you can say that your reluctant vote was because the bill also provided funds for a bridge in your state... Kind of transactional and gross but it made for more give and take on both sides.
106473 t1_iymbzs8 wrote
No, it's caused more divide than anything to allow party politics to dictate "give and take" with our society. You either vote for the bill or not on it's merits not because you get something out of it.
Unethical.
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