CDM Loc: Florida

What did Obama do with the first two years in which he had super majority? You have all the answers...Tell us why he could not set the course for corrective actions with policy when he had the entire run of the farm. He could not be outv**ed...What did he do?

Nickolai

Obama didn't have a super majority his first two years. Lets take a trip back. First do you remember the President needed 60 v**es in the Senate. There were not 60 v**es in the Senate to pass the ACA so there had to be reconciliation. What about the stimulus ? Again there was not 60 Democrats in the senate, reconciliation didn't work. It was blocked and the President traded a jobs bill for tax cuts. Yep traded for tax cut's---- which it did accomplish as much as the baby stimulus would allow. Is it all coming back now. Obama only had 56 v**es in the Senate. Even after Kennedy came back to cast one v**e and Arlon Spector switched parties and with Al Frankin still in purgatory waiting to be seated Obama only had 59 seats. It was August 2009 before Senator Kirk was named to take Kennedy's seat that Obama had 60 seats it lasted 4 months not two years.

The Republicans had complete control from 2001 to 2007 and how did that work out ? It doesn't bear repeating. They had six years to screw up not only the US but the whole damned world.

CDM Loc: Florida

Conceded; he only had about 6 months of supermajority. Not really enough time for a president to do much. But he is making up for it now with his pen and phone...