He's been more blocked by Democrats than the GOP. How many of his budgets have made it to a Senate vote?
His failure is his own. His party had 2 years of unobstructed access to power. And they passed plenty of bills. Or did you forget that?
And as for foreign policy, he's had a free hand. And fucked it up 6 ways from Sunday.
Why do you have to lie? They never had anything near two years with a 60 vote super-majority.
Free hand my butt. "Damned if you do and Damned if you don't" is still the GOP strategy there too. The Presidency is just more powerful than Congress in that area.
So are you saying the Democrats didnt pass any of his legislation, like Obamacare and Dodd-Frank? You have really pushed yourself into a stupid corner with that one. Do you really you maintain he wasn't able to get his way, despite ample evidence that he got legislation passed with zero GOP votes? Let's see how dumb you are prepared to show yourself here.
In July, Al Frankin was finally declared the winner and was sworn in on July 7th, 2009, so the Democrats finally had a Super Majority of 60-40 six and one-half months into the year. However, by this point, Kennedy was unable to return to Washington even to participate in the Health Care debate, so it was only a technical super majority because Kennedy could no longer vote and the Senate does not allow proxies.
Even if Kennedy were able to vote, the Senate went into summer recess three weeks later, from August 7th to September 8th.
on Aug 26, 2009 Teddy Kennedy died
KennedyÂ’s replacement was sworn in on September 25, 2009, finally making the majority 60-40, just enough for a super majority.
However the Senate adjourned for the year on October 9th, only providing 11 working days of super majority, from September 25th to October 9th.
Scott Brown was elected in November of 2009. The Senate was not in session during November and December of 2009. The Senate was in session for 10 days in January, but Scott Brown was sworn into office on February 4th, so the Democrats only had 13 days of super majority in 2010.
Summary: The Democrats only had 24 days of Super Majority between 2008 and 2010.
The Myth of the Democratic Super Majority | Maui County Democratic Party