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Originally Posted by Robbie
The media tried to paint a picture of Republicans obstructing everything.
That's been the talking point.
What they didn't tell people was that Sen. Reid was the leader of the "Do Nothing" Senate.
The House has passed plenty of bills.
But Sen. Reid (as majority leader of the Senate) refused to let them go to a vote on the Senate floor.
Basically ANYTHING that he didn't agree with in any way...he shelved.
People saw through that shit after a while.
Perhaps now some things will FINALLY make it past the Senate and to the President's desk for him to either sign or veto.
Anything is better than what Reid did as majority leader.  |
I doubt anything will get done. I suppose a miracle could happen, but this shit is a two way street. There were plenty of things that the democrats passed in the senate that the house refused to vote on. Back in June Boehner even went so far as to tell the president that the house would not be voting on any kind of immigration reform bill that ended up in the house before the end of the year.
The republicans spent 6 years doing everything they could to obstruct Obama. The democrats responded by not working with the republicans. I think since the tide has turned the democrats are going do what they can to stall anything the republicans may want to do.
I don't see this election as a referendum on the democrats or the republicans. Two term presidents almost always loses seats in the second mid term. Those who hate Obama and the democrats came out in force and voted while those who feel more moderately towards the democrats didn't turn out to support him.
Congress has a roughly 17% approval rating yet 97% of them were reelected. I don't expect the same group of people to suddenly start acting differently.