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nuckles87 on 14 December 2011
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Coca-Cola said:
nuckles87 said:
Neither Reagan or Clinton had to deal with a Congress that is literally content to just sit on it's hands and wait out the clock. Obama's gone so far as to alienate his own base in his attempts to get things like the debt ceiling through Congress. I never imagined the Republican house and Senators would be this bad. I knew they'd demand stuff, but I never imagined it would be, at all times, my way or the highway. Fact of the matter is, they don't want to work with him. They want him out. That's their only real goal right now. Heck, they've said as much. Remember McConnell's "Our primary goal is to make Obama a one term president"? Did Reagan have to deal with that?

I thought Obama had both House and Senate on his side for two years.

It's never been that simple, but I was mostly talking about since 2011. I was assuming that's what the person was referring to.


In those days  Obama was all about bipartisanship and trying to get Republicans to work with him to produce bills that could be passed with bipartisan support. In the end this would only produce watered down legislation that few Republicans would vote for anyway.


Obama also had to deal with the constant, record number of filibusters in the senate, filibusters democrats only had the majorities to override for a few months, and during those days he had to deal with conservative democrats that were practically democrats in name only. A good congress doesn't rubber stamp everything a president does, and even the 2009/2010 democratic congress.