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Jackson50 said:
akuma587 said:

And maybe the reason the Democrats can't do anything in Congress is because the Republicans have tried to block as many major initiatives as they can to simply say that the Democrats haven't been doing their job even if it means that change that needs to happen can't happen.  The recent fiasco over passing legislation to remedy the oil situation is a great example.

Luckily the American public is smarter than that, and will take it out on the Republicans in office come November.

 

If the Americans are intelligent enough to surmise that the lack of progress for the 110th Congress is because of Republican opposition, then should they not be intelligent enough to surmise that the Democrats were not doing a good job as opposition to the Republicans?

 

Its hard to get much done when you have a one person majority in the Senate if the other party is trying to block your every move to save face politically (which didn't work by the way).

 



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