We Have a President, Not a King

[BlueCaliDem]

4. The mistake is trying to compare Chimpy's (p)residency to Obama's presidency.

Apples and oranges.

For no less than six years, Chimpy had a totally Republican controlled Congress, a 4.2% UE rate, and 9/11/2001. Obama had two years and a recalcitrant Democratic Congress (that clearly preferred HRC as president) - and no 9/11 to rally the country behind him.

Unlike Republicans/Teapublicans, Congressional Dems don't make a habit of filibustering just because they lost the WH or try to hamstring the U.S. Gov't entirely just because they don't get what they want. Fact of the matter is, Democrats actually believe government has an important role to play in our country and in the lives of our countrymen. Republicans don't. That's the huge difference.

Then we also should also NOT forget 9/11/2001. It had great influence on how members of Congress on both sides of the aisle approached legislation since poll after poll showed that the American people, by and large, across the entire political spectrum, rallied behind their (p)resident. And since it happened in the same year, just nine months, after the Chimp was seated in the WH by his friends on SCOTUS, it gave him an almost blank check to do whatever the hell he wanted for the majority of those six years - with the blessings from the same American people who should have known better.

I'm so sick and tired of so-called Democrats and Liberals whining that "Duhbya had no problem getting his agenda through so why can't Obama?!" without those same "Democrats" and "Liberals" even trying to understand the more favorable congressional variables of Chimpy's time - or choose to conveniently forget them to fit their anti-Obama narrative. Either way, they're dead wrong.