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Originally Posted by Snake Doctor
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.
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Budgets, war costs, FISA all needed to be approved by Congress. They all passed with massive Democratic support.
Democrats could have ended the war by cutting funding. They could have demanded troop withdrawals by cutting funding. That is what the American people voted them into power to do. Instead, they sat on their hands and whined. They decided that some innocent lives were worth losing as long as they could keep their seats and gain more power.
I stand by my statement. Democrats in power are pussies. Drafting and voting on legislation is their jobs. I'm sorry you feel that their time is better spent figuring out whether Roger Clemens used steroids. Bring up the legislation and put the heat on the President or the Republicans in Congress.
But it's better than Republicans who actually do make changes, albeit shitty ones that hurt the country. Democrats win because they're the lesser of two evils.