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Tx4obama

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4. Please go do some research.

Wed Dec 28, 2011, 09:02 AM

Dec 2011

You will find that the dems had a filibuster-proof majority in The Senate for only a few weeks since the time that President Obama took office.
Senator Franken was not sworn in until July 2009, and Senator Kennedy died in August 2009. Deduct all the weeks that Congress was gone for holiday breaks, etc... and then Scott Brown took Kennedy's seat at the beginning of 2010. The Democrats had a filibuster-proof majority in The Senate for a total of less than 14 weeks.

It takes 60 'yes' votes in The Senate to invoke cloture on all the bills that The GOP has obstructed.

A regular 'majority' ain't shit, without a filibuster-proof majority ya don't have squat.

Has nothing to do with 'excuses' it has to do with 'facts'.

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Its only your tax money - what's the problem. dipsydoodle Dec 2011 #1

Blame it on The Congress since it is The Congress that won't let President Obama ... Tx4obama Dec 2011 #2

so what was your excuse when there was a dem majority in congress? ixion Dec 2011 #3

Please go do some research. Tx4obama Dec 2011 #4

so your excuse is they didn't have time. ixion Dec 2011 #5

Ah, so you're going to just disregard that we didn't have the 60 votes in Congress ... Tx4obama Dec 2011 #6

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