what the public needs to realize...

[Bonestorm]

LOL... kind of funny given all the attempts by Obama to circumvent Congress. That said, yes, he needs Congress... yet even when he had his party in control of both houses he did not address the economy. When the House went Rep he reverted to the 'call Reps obstructionists (aka not doing what I want)' line of crap and here we sit. His do nothing Senate leader can't even pass a simple budget.

When he had control of both houses (albeit not supermajority control) he passed the stimulus bill. When the Reps came in, they blocked everything, focused on the deficit instead of the economy, held the economy hostage during the debt ceiling negotiations and refused to do pretty much anything to grow the economy.

Also, too, the whole budget thing isn't really relevant.

LMAO... he had 59 in the Senate for two years. It is truly funny, no matter how much power the Dems have, they always blame Reps as obstructionists, just like you (their faithful parrot) and pretend that they simply do not have enough power.

59 is not a supermajority and he didn't even have 59 for two years. 59 isn't really any better than 51. He had 60, the key number, for a few months.

It is a sum total of his policies, every economist that looks at the current state of unemployment/labor participation etc... can verify.

That's awesome.

 

[Don Quixote]

LMAO... tell us Don... what policies are those?



LMAO... as I mentioned to Dung... they still had 59 seats... it is never enough for you Dems. No matter how much power you have, you pretend it is not enough.



As I have stated many times, tax cuts without spending cuts are not sustainable long term. Why is it you all continue to harp on Bush? I have stated many times what a fiscal failure he was. Yet you continue to pretend that Obama, who is essentially running Bush's third term, is somehow managing things differently. Yet Obama's tax cut extension kept Bush's tax cuts going .... why is that?

60 votes are needed to override a filibuster not 59

have you checked the senate rules lately?

obama gave in on the bushco tax cuts because that was the price demanded by the repugs to extend the debt ceiling, obama wanted to keep the bushco tax cuts for families making $250,000 and less, but the repugs rejected that and have continued to do so

you seem to have a short memory about what goes on in the senate

also, the repugs have declared that their top priority is to limit obama to one term rather than the good of the nation