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Yeah..Obama did say he won. He did by the way. He also had mulitple meetings with Republicans. Held parties for Republicans. Put almost every Republican idea into the stimulus and health care bills.
They still didn't vote for it. They filibustered something like 275 times..a new record. They called him every nasty name in the book and the minority leader came out and said he wanted him to be a one term president. They shouted out "You Lie" in the halls of congress.
You may cheer that sort of behavior. But it bodes badly in terms of governance.
My research shows 91 filibusters. I didn't look to see how many were only done to slow things down so everyone had a chance to actually read some legislation or another. Or will you deny that legislation was passed that was never read?
Your research is a little faulty.
Critics will say that it is self-serving for Democrats to propose these reforms now, when they face a larger and more restive Republican minority. The facts of the growing procedural abuse are clearly on their side. In the last two Congressional terms, Republicans have brought 275 filibusters that Democrats have been forced to try to break. That is by far the highest number in Congressional history, and more than twice the amount in the previous two terms.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/03/opinion/03mon1.html
And many of these filibusters were done anonymously.
you had a supra majority for several months, so whats your point?