Who was the bigger obstructionist? Harry Reid or Mitch McConnell?

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2. Both sides blocked bills. The problem was that the House was a lot better at passing bills with dems

and these bills were then blocked by Reid. It was easy for the House GOP to say Reid was the obstructionist. I always considered that a terrible strategy. They should have brought those bills to the floor, amended them down and sent them back to the House or vote them down. It was a very stupid more to keep them.

By comparison, McConnell was essentially able to prevent Reid to pass most bills, so aside from a handful of bills, nothing got stuck on Boehner's desk.

Most people do not understand procedure, so when they hear that 400 bills are blocked (most of them concerning jobs -- even if it is not true) in the Senate and that we can only name a handful blocked in the House (like CIR or ENDA), they draw their own conclusion.