Mr. President, many of us thought we were voting for greatness. Instead, we got you.

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222. We gave him a Democratic majority in 2009/2010, that may have been his only decent chance.

During 2009/2010, he and the Democrats in Congress could have done a number of important things by using the budget reconciliation process, which can't be filibustered. He chose instead to play bipartisan BS with the Republicans and I personally can't believe he really thought that would work.

Some do believe he was sincere and credit him for trying to change how Washington works. But even if true, that's obviously not the change we need. At best that would have been two parties working together to not do what the American people want and need, but rather what the corporations want for their bribe money.

What he and the Democrats in Congress should and could have done was use reconciliation to fix our tax system, for example. Raise the rates on the wealthy and permanently cut taxes on the middle class.

They could have done that without Lieberman, Baucus, Collins, Snowe, or others who were on the 60 vote margin. They needed just 50 Senators plus the VP at a time when they had 59 Democratic Senators (counting Sanders) to work with.

That opportunity has been lost now, unless we can get a Democratic majority in both houses again. We can wait all we want for the rest of this term and possibly a second one; what do you expect he could accomplish if Republicans control one of the houses?