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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
I hardly think that when the democrats control the white house, house and senate, anyone can be accused on "blocking" them from doing anything.
However, one of Obamas best political moves was characterizing Republicans as "the party of no" - so it would always be win/win for him no matter what the facts where.
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Obama wasn't labeling them the party of no, he was calling them exactly what they were. Between 2007-2010 (the period of time the democrats held both houses) there were 272 votes brought to the floor in a effort to end a filibuster. This means the republicans were filibustering at least 272 times.
To put that into perspective that is more than the total number between 1999-2006 combined.
Add to this that the republicans moved to block Obama judicial nominees at such a rate that he has been able to pass the get the fewest number of nominees approved since Carter and only 42% of his nominees get confirmed. Since Cater the next lowest number is 79% that was Bush 1.
Mitch McConnell stated that the republican's number one goal was to make Obama a one term president. It wasn't to help fix the economy or get the country moving again, it was to make Obama a one term president and that is exactly what they set out to do.
I'm not defending Obama. We can only speculate as to whether or not things would be better if he were able to pass anything he wanted, but to think for a minute that the republicans have not been stonewalling is to be wearing blinders and not accepting reality.