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(13,409 posts)Gave us only milquetoast legislation like health care reform that mandates one purchase insurance, yet does extremely little to control costs. And a Wall St. bailout that did nothing to help millions of struggling Americans, yet provided the banks with billions upon billions with almost no restrictions as to how the money was used. No republican would have been able to do that because it would have been too obvious and democrats would have screamed bloody murder. But because it happened under a democrat, it went right through. Both Obama and Nixon had Democratic majorities, so far, Obama has given us nothing nearly as sweeping as the EPA. If Nixon could give us everything he did, there's no reason that Obama shouldn't have been able to give MUCH more substantial legislation considering he had a similar Senate.