REPOST: I'm curious...who here thinks they or anyone else, could have accomplished more than PBO

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40. President Obama and the Democratic leadership of Congress could have done more, working together.

In 2009 and 2010 they held a Democratic majority in both the House and the Senate. They could have used the reconciliation process, which cannot be filibustered, to do more. That is how major legislation has been accomplished over the last several decades but President Obama and the Democrats in Congress chose not to do anything major except Obamacare. And in the case of Obamacare they chose not do to what a significant majority of the voters wanted - a public option - and instead did only what the insurance industry wanted.

If they had seized that opportunity and done more in 2009/2010 then chances are good they would have held on to their majority in the following years and could have continued to do more. Instead they played footsie with the Republicans for two years and not surprisingly that wasn't a winning platform in the November 2010 midterm.

The fact that Democratic leadership has chosen to deny they could have used reconciliation and instead make the false claim that the filibuster prevented them from doing anything shows who they were really working for, and it wasn't the people of the US, it was the corporations who were pulling the strings.