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Reply #16: He never had a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate to get anything really progressive passed.
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Thu May-19-11 10:04 AM
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16. He never had a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate to get anything really progressive passed. |
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Oh sure, for two years in the House he had enough progressives to get very progressive legislation passed there, only to have nearly every one of those bills languish and die in the Senate, which is historically usually more conservative than a President or House.
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