Still Think Theres NO Difference Between Republicans & Democrats?

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54. It doesn't work that way.

There was no reason for Reid or the other Democrats to realize that they were now living in a brand new world, where the Rethugs would try to stop everything, no matter what. But even if they had, they couldn't have taken bills that had started in Bush's Presidency and turned around and passed them in Obama's.

There are all kinds of stages that a bill has to go through to get to the point where it can be voted on, and the Rethugs were using their ability to block at every step of the way. And one of the things they can do is delay. Just a single Senator could put a hold on a bill and delay it indefinitely. But the Senate rules that continued that tradition had already been voted on and approved before the Rethugs (Jim deMint, in particular) announced that they'd be blocking every proposal Obama put forth. So it was too late to stop those holds, and there were many.