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Assistance Please... I need a reference on how many days the Dem's controlled both house/senate.. (Original Post) Rosco T. Sep 2012 OP
Technically the Dems did control both houses for two years Panasonic Sep 2012 #1
yes, that's what I meant... Rosco T. Sep 2012 #2
Here. Panasonic Sep 2012 #4
I don't think that people understand this point as well as they should Proud Liberal Dem Sep 2012 #7
I hope this helps Mojorabbit Sep 2012 #3
ohh perfect.. THANK YOU! n/m Rosco T. Sep 2012 #6
72 days when al franken finally got seated to when ted kenedy got too sick to serve leftyohiolib Sep 2012 #5
 

Panasonic

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1. Technically the Dems did control both houses for two years
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 03:40 PM
Sep 2012

from 2009 to 2011.

You are thinking of a filibusterproof Senate, which we had for roughly about that, between Franken's swearing-in and Kennedy's death. And even with 60, there was still Byrd's health to deal with so it was never consistently at 60.

Proud Liberal Dem

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7. I don't think that people understand this point as well as they should
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 04:30 PM
Sep 2012

Most of them think that a.)The Democrats controlled WH and Congress for 2 whole years! Why the hell didn't they get more done? and b.)The Democrats could never get a majority of votes to get a bunch of good stuff passed in the Senate. "How incompetent could one Congress be?" and c.)The Democrats rammed though a whole bunch of massive government spending and takeover of healthcare with their bare hands, so why couldn't they have done more on other things? "They just care about spending taxpayer dollars and taking away our freedoms!" Unfortunately for us (and the country), enough people either didn't get out to vote in 2010 or, worse, decided that putting the Republicans in charge of the House and electing a few more Republicans to the Senate was the "solution" to all of the above "problems"!



Republicans are curiously absent from any discussion of why things went down the way the did between 2009-2011. In fact, I'm not sure if most people understood how close we came to even more massive economic destruction last summer with the debt ceiling debacle.

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