2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumAssistance Please... I need a reference on how many days the Dem's controlled both house/senate..
in Obama's first term? I seem to think it was like 44 days?
Panasonic
(2,921 posts)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.
Rosco T.
(6,496 posts)thanks.
This should give you an idea - 72 days.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,353 posts)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.