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Originally Posted by Flames Fan, Ph.D.
Simply not true.
With supermajority being the new majority in the Senate, he never had both branches of Congress.
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I'm pretty sure Obama had his supermajority until Ted Kennedy died. He had more political muscle than any other President in modern times until midterm elections.
Things like cap & trade and the abolishing of the Patriot act were well within his reach but, he chose to break those promises. Obama has shown an inability to work with his own party let alone the Republicans. Bush or Clinton would have been behind the scenes negotiating with Republicans as well as Democrats and would have got a compromise on the budget. Obama hasn't been able to get a budget passed by his own Senate and that includes when he had a supermajority.
Domestically Obama seems to think that the office of President is akin to being king; He commands and everyone obeys. He has spent most of this Presidency complaining because Senators and Congressmen don't obey him blindly. The Patriot act he kept because every king needs one to control the rabble and he has expanded it by including more controls over the internet.
Obama's foriegn policy has included starting a war without Congressional approval in Libya and killing solidiers and civilians in Pakistan on several occasions. And there is of course Obama's ordered assassination of an American citizen on foriegn soil.
You can disagree with Bush's domestic and foriegn policy but, at least it was inacted with the support of both House and Senate. I find it ironic that Bush was allowed to carry all the blame for actions taken by both branches of government while Obama gets to blame the Senate and Congress while not carrying any responsibility for what he has done/not done.