[QUOTE=space1;50039847]NEVER CLOSED GUANTANAMO BAY[/QUOTE]
yea cause they shut him down the first time he tried and now he's having to order it closed on the way out
[QUOTE=Maegord;50038330]Obama only had a necessary super majority for a single one year from 2009 to 2010, due to the death of Senator Kennedy, and the special election that somehow resulted in a Republican winning the seat. That single year that he an ability to actually pass legislation he had to focus on halting the ever deepening recession and try to bring things back, during which he passed the Stimulus. And even while dealing with that, he still got a number of other things done, most notably getting the Affordable Care Act through the senate so the Republicans couldn't have stopped that too when they got rid of the Democrat's super majority. Obama had exactly one year minus the time it took to deal with the recession to get anything done before the Republicans began denying everything he tried to do. It's a little unfair to blame him for that.
And how was Obama supposed to 'fight' Congress exactly? And how would Bernie do it any differently? You can try to play the moderate and make concessions and extend a grapevine to the opposing party, Obama certainly tried that for a couple years at first: But that got nowhere. You can play it hard line and try to get the country outraged and use public sentiment to force the opposition into conceding, Obama tried that too. None of those strategies worked, because at the end of the day, the Republican base and leadership doesn't want anything that is remotely progressive, or even touched by a liberal at all, and will deny all grapevines. And they will only get pissed off and more self-righteous and partisan if you try to rally public opinion by pointing out what they're doing is bullshit. What exactly could Bernie or Hillary for that matter hope to do scare a stonewalling Republican party into actually cooperating for once?
I apologize if my tone comes off slightly irate, but there really isn't anything that can be done for the next Congressional term if the Republican party decides again that they don't want to actually do their job and just sit on their asses for another term. What needs to be done for the president, whoever it may be, to actually get something done would be to get a super majority again in Congress, and that can't possibly be done this election, there isn't enough House seats endangered for that to work. It requires making wins in 2016, and ultimately not accomplishing anything but playing to public opinion for the next election season or two until you can force the Republicans out.[/QUOTE]
Bernie is really fucking good at working congress. He's had more legislation passed than any other congressman via amendments, despite spending a lot of time in Republican majorities. He's great at gaining cross party support for legislation. Remember not all republicans have to follow the rnc, moderates can be coaxed out of the woodwork to rebel, they can be negotiated with. Him and McCain have championed a number of bills together. He's sat on and chaired numerous committees. Not to mention he's one of the longest serving congressmen out there, everyone knows him.
He knows what he's doing - he's probably the best equipped out there for the task of passing leftist reforms. Especially with the huge mandate he's projected to get if he wins the nomination.
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