is this the new scapegoat for the obama administration?

Yurt said:
"essentially"

translation:

i screwed up
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Really? How'd I screw up, Yurtsie?

It's obvious what happened. You jumped on the thread & saw my comment above on the 2nd page, but didn't read what prompted it from the 1st page.

Ooooooooops......
 
Y'all seem to forget your history:
From January 3 to January 20, 2001, with the Senate divided evenly between the two parties, the Democrats held the majority due to the deciding vote of outgoing Democratic Vice President Al Gore. Senator Thomas A. Daschle served as majority leader at that time. Beginning on January 20, 2001, Republican Vice President Richard Cheney held the deciding vote, giving the majority to the Republicans. Senator Trent Lott resumed his position as majority leader on that date. On May 24, 2001, Senator James Jeffords of Vermont announced his switch from Republican to Independent status, effective June 6, 2001. Jeffords announced that he would caucus with the Democrats, giving the Democrats a one-seat advantage, changing control of the Senate from the Republicans back to the Democrats. Senator Thomas A. Daschle again became majority leader on June 6, 2001. Senator Paul D. Wellstone (D-MN) died on October 25, 2002, and Independent Dean Barkley was appointed to fill the vacancy. The November 5, 2002 election brought to office elected Senator James Talent (R-MO), replacing appointed Senator Jean Carnahan (D-MO), shifting balance once again to the Republicans -- but no reorganization was completed at that time since the Senate was out of session.
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http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/history/one_item_and_teasers/partydiv.htm
 
DamnYankee said:
No, I was referring to Bush in that sentence.
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My mistake. If the Republicans controlled the House for 6 of Bush's 8 years and the Senate for just over half how does that come out to him having to work with a mostly Democratic Congress?
 
cawacko said:
My mistake. If the Republicans controlled the House for 6 of Bush's 8 years and the Senate for just over half how does that come out to him having to work with a mostly Democratic Congress?
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His first year it was a democratic senate- as well as his last two, unlike Obama, Bush never had a super majority in both houses...never.
 
icedancer2theend said:
His first year it was a democratic senate- as well as his last two, unlike Obama, Bush never had a super majority in both houses...never.
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Maybe I am missing something here but this was DY's quote that I was responding to regarding Bush, "the Democrats had control of congress for most of the time he was president."

I don't see the Republicans controlling the House for 6 of 8 years and the Senate for over half as Congress being led by Democrats. Am I wrong?
 
cawacko said:
My mistake. If the Republicans controlled the House for 6 of Bush's 8 years and the Senate for just over half how does that come out to him having to work with a mostly Democratic Congress?
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See post 33. Remember Jumpin' Jim Jeffords? Bush never had a solid GOP congress; sure they may have had an occaisional majority in either or both houses for leadership positions, but it was always a slim one and always a host of the usual players to side with the Democrats on key issues. As a result "compromise" was always being discussed.

In contrast The Obama had huge majorities in both houses for his first two years and they had the People bent over the fence and fucked every single one of us up the ass with ObamaCare and the like.
 
Onceler said:
DY wasn't talking supermajority. He was talking control of Congress.
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As I just pointed out, I was talking about actual control. Even when the GOP had a slight majority they never had the balls to do what the Democrat congress would do during The Obama's first two years. I'm on record here for admiring their commitment to their cause and doing what their far-left base have been planning for decades. They butt-fucked us all with several new major pieces of legislation regardless of how loud the voters screamed.

When Bush had both houses I was screaming fro the GOP to put the ax to the bloated federal government once and for all but it was never even discussed publicly, never mind proposed as a bill.
 
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