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Originally Posted by pocketkangaroo
Oh please. People put them in power to end the war and fix the bad policies. All they did was cave left and right on those. FISA, war bills, budgets, offshore drilling, etc. They didn't take a single stand on anything.
Make excuses all you want, but they have the power to pass stuff and let the Prez veto it. That's what they were put in power for. They'd rather play politics than take a stand.
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Yes and with a razor thin majority they were supposed to run roughshod over a President who obviously cares nothing about his legacy and clings to his ideology. Apparently you have no idea how the real world works.
You need 60 votes to get anything done in the Senate that isn't part of the budget (assuming the President will sign it into law, if he vetoes you need 67 votes). The Democrats had 51 votes.
Maybe in your world they should have spent months drafting and voting on legislation that had no hope of becoming law, but that's not the way the real world works.
Of course if you need a scapegoat to blame all of the world's ills on, I guess they're as easy a target as any.