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"Bob Eld" wrote in message
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> On 4/14/2012 3:11 PM, Obama's War On Women wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> The missing huge Gorilla in the room is the Congress. Obama has faced
>>> nothing but obstruction given the makeup of the Congress
>>
>> Yah Congress Blocked Obama from passing Obamacare.
>> Congress Blocked Obama from passing Bush Tax Credits.
>> Congress blocked Obama from passing his $ 1 trillion " Stimulus failure"
>> Congress Blocked Obama from passing his SS tax cut bill
>>
>> Yeah Congress blocked obstruction from Congres over all his failed bills.
>
> Yep they did. They totally blocked some legislation and altered others.
> The Affordable Care Act was bastardized from what Obama originally wanted
Liar. Nasty Piglosi had the Majority in the House and Rats had a super
majority in the senate and passed Obamacarre on X MAs eve . GOP coundlt stop
it or anything in it. Obama got exactly what he wanted. that’s also why
over 70 RATS got Exterminated in the 2012 Election, and why Obama will get
Exterminated this Nov too.
The Democrats’ 134-Day Supermajority
Posted on December 31, 2010 by PoliPundit
Short-lived, but it did long-term damage:
Obamacare is the product of a brief moment of total Democratic dominance in
Washington. Key to that dominance was a 60-seat, filibuster-proof Senate
majority. It wasn’t a sure bet for Democrats; despite victories in 2008, the
party’s hopes for that majority depended on the outcome of a contested race
in Minnesota. After a controversial recount, Al Franken became the 60th
Democratic senator on July 7, 2009, giving Democrats an unassailable edge.
But that majority disappeared just 49 days later when, on August 25, 2009,
Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy died. State law called for a
special election to fill the empty seat. That would have taken months, and
as public opposition to Obamacare grew, Democrats became increasingly
anxious to pass the bill as quickly as possible. Luckily for them, Democrats
in the Massachusetts legislature came to the rescue, changing the law to
allow the immediate appointment of Democrat Paul Kirk. Kirk was sworn in on
September 24, 2009, giving Democrats 60 votes once more.
After Obamacare passed the House on November 7 — over the opposition of 39
Democrats and all but one Republican — Senate Democrats raced to get the job
done. Threatening to keep the Senate in session through the holidays, they
finally passed the bill — 60 Democratic votes, not one to spare — in the
early hours of Christmas Eve.
Even as that vote was taken, a little-known Massachusetts Republican named
Scott Brown was rising in the polls in the race for Kennedy’s seat — by
promising to become the 41st vote against Obamacare. On January 19, Brown’s
victory shocked the political world. When he was sworn in on February 4, the
second period of a Democratic filibuster-proof majority was over. It had
lasted 134 days.
But health care had been passed. Later, without a decisive Senate majority,
Democrats were forced to use procedural maneuvers to put the final touches
on Obamacare. But they were just tweaking what had only been possible with a
60-vote majority.
The last such achievement, Medicare, passed in 1965 with bipartisan support
on the foundation of a huge Democratic majority that lasted many years.
Obamacare barely scraped by.
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