osamanobama said:
richardhutnik said:
osamanobama said:
2 words: Super Majority.
Obama had that for the first 2 years of his presidency. it didnt matter what the republicans did, they could have unilaterally voted against anything and everything that obama proposed, and it wouldnt have mattered. they could have got any thing they wanted done, including eliminating tax brakes for so called rich people. they chose not to because they knew it would be political suicide
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1 word: Filibuster
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/28/AR2010122803998.html
When Lyndon Johnson was majority leader in the Senate, he needed to file for cloture to end a filibuster only once. During President Obama's first two years, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid filed for cloture 84 times. To put that in perspective, the filibuster was used more in 2009 than in the 1950s and 1960s combined.
Anything Obama tried to do was filibustered duiring the first two years, to the extent a having complete control would do it. But, anyhow, see whatever you want to see here, it is easier on you.
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ummm... filibusters can be stoped, you know with 60 votes, something they had, you know a supermajority, they could stop any filibuster they wanted
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_special_election_in_Massachusetts,_2010
January 2010, the end of the super majority for Democrats. I guess you can also get on Obama for trying to be more diplomatic to bring change to Washinton also. Had he played hardball, he might of been able to ramrod things through congress.
