Obama blames GOP for his 'biggest failure'

[Raider Ronnie]

Didn't he have both the house & senate majority 1st 2 years in office ?
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[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by Raider Ronnie

Didn't he have both the house & senate majority 1st 2 years in office ?
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He had the house and a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate for quite a while.

But Ronnie, you aren't supposed to point out things that make it look like he bears any responsibility for failures or broken promises. You must, therefore, be a racist.

[zimmy]

As was established in another thread: 4 months with filibuster proof majority.

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by zimmy

As was established in another thread: 4 months with filibuster proof majority.

(1) Scott Brown was sworn in in February 2010. Obama took office in January 2009. How is that 4 months? Looks more like 13 months to me.

(2) Scott Brown is no hard-line conservative. His presence in teh Senate was not the end of Obama's chances of doing anything

(3) not everything was fillibustered by the GOP. Other presidents have managed to pass important legislation without having a fillibuster-proof majority of the Senate. You just have to know how to work with people who aren't exactly like you, and Obama hasn't figured that out yet.

[RIROCKHOUND]

Originally Posted by Jim in CT

You just have to know how to work with people who aren't exactly like you, and Obama hasn't figured that out yet.

Yup.
Super friendly, and all about bipartisanship and compromise with John Boener and Mitch McConnell.. I thought it was Tip Oniel and Regan all over again....

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by RIROCKHOUND

Yup.
Super friendly, and all about bipartisanship and compromise with John Boener and Mitch McConnell.. I thought it was Tip Oniel and Regan all over again....

So what's Obama's idea of bipartanship - using the State Of The Union to bash the Supreme Court, sitting 10 feet away? Inviting Paul Ryan to a speech, and then telling the audience what a jerk Ryan is?

Leadership starts at the top.

Rockhound, if Obama made this promise, why didn't he simply pass immigration reform (and anything else he wanted) when his party held all the cards? Why?