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Originally Posted by Flames Fan, Ph.D.
JFK, Lyndon Johnson and Carter all had house and senate majorities during the lengths of their tenure. I cited the Roosevelt one of 12 unopposed years just to show how ludicrous your "i believes" usually are. You could simply check these things yourself and make a more meaningful claim in support of your position. But rather, you just let your narrative do the talking.
So as you noted, Obama had more "political muscle than any president in modern times." So for accuracy, just do us a favour and post the dates that Obama had his iron grip on the senate and the house.
We want the facts right, not some left or right wing narrative? Thank you in advance for backing up your initial claim.
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For the record, I agree with you that Obama has made many, many mistakes on many fronts. He's been especially bad on one front that I think is the most important of all, and I've posted this multiple times. However, that displeasure doesn't give me latitude to make other stuff up about the man. |
Obama had a little over 5 months to draft legistation or rather have the Congress and Senate draft legistation before Franken was sworn in. There were 48 days with a super-majority before the day of Kennedy died. Of course Kennedy was not available for all of these. Then there was another 31 days where laws could have been drafted or debated but, no super-majority existed. Obama then had the next 132 days before Brown was sworn in.
Basically Obama had a little over a year to accomplish his mandate without the help of the Republicans. It's not like he couldn't get out of bed and go to work without a super-majority. Everything short of voting to end debate in the Senate could be accomplished without his Super-majority. Obama could have had a budget as well as health care and cap & trade voted on in the Congress and debated in the Senate before Franken was sworn in. Instead he accomplished nothing until Fall and then pushed through Obamacare without giving Congress and the Senate enough time to read it let alone debate it.
Obama promised that he would change how things were done in Washington and he certainly has. As you pointed out the last 4 Presidents before him had no super-majority but, still managed to pass budgets and find compromises to get things done.
I think the reason why Newt Gingrich has risen in the polls is because he is living proof you can get things done if your willing to share power and compromise. He also insisted on balanced budgets and got them.