No more excuses

You got nothin', do you, CBJ7? Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy

the point being, its takes 60 seats in the senate to make a supermajority and it takes a supermajority to break a filibuster .. there was only one brief period when the dems had 60 seats, and that was basically on paper because one of those seats was vacant because of health issues ...


JD said Obie owned congress, I pointed out the record number of republican filibusters and the straight simple facts ... from there it morphed into a rightwing deflection pissing contest ...

I have that.

now suppose you exercise your intellect and prove any part of this wrong .. or do you have nothing there big shot?

President Obama was sworn in on January 20, 2009 with just 58 Senators to support his agenda.
He should have had 59, but Republicans contested Al Franken's election in Minnesota and he didn't get seated for seven months.
The President's cause was helped in April when Pennsylvania's Republican Senator Arlen Specter switched parties.
That gave the President 59 votes -- still a vote shy of the super majority.
But one month later, Democratic Senator Byrd of West Virginia was hospitalized and was basically out of commission.
So while the President's number on paper was 59 Senators -- he was really working with just 58 Senators.
Then in July, Minnesota Senator Al Franken was finally sworn in, giving President Obama the magic 60 -- but only in theory, because Senator Byrd was still out.
In August, Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts died and the number went back down to 59 again until Paul Kirk temporarily filled Kennedy's seat in September.
Any pretense of a supermajority ended on February 4, 2010 when Republican Scott Brown was sworn into the seat Senator Kennedy once held,

why are you even answering COB? He's the bitterest limpdick motherfucker on ECCIE.

From what I hear, we may need to change his name to Microsoft!

Not that I'm interested in wasting my time, but I wonder how many "you got nothin'" posts help comprise his 22,750 posts of ECCIE?

yeah, that too

I thought you had me on "ignore"? Or did you lie about that, too, Assup?

Naw ... We're gonna have some fun, you and me.

Im sure everybody else will put you on ignore first.

Now please tell us again how you hate America, you spineless backpedaler!

I love America. I despise the government. There is a difference.

So you did lie about putting me on ignore. What a shock.

You got nothin', do you, CBJ7? Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy

Nothing but unicorns and rainbows.

They spent all their firepower on getting Obamacare passed. It cost them the 2010 elections but helped win them part of the 2012 election. It was said many times in 2009 that if people had good jobs, they wouldn't need the govt to pay for healthcare.

Again, more revisionist Dim history.

as a registered independent Id like to say fuck you.

Oh good golly, CJ tried to make a point and Doove almost gagged on his dick.

I never said that the there was a super majority so why bring it up CJ. Obama didn't need a super majority if he had come up with something that was agreeable to moderates but he didn't. He tried to make deals that fell apart, he tried bribery but lost a couple of takers, then he just flat out lied to a couple of moderate democratic senators about abortion and he got em. I never said he had a supermajority and he never really needed on if he had moderated his positions.

As for poor old Doove. Once again he made my point again. He said that Obama never tried to pass any of that stuff the first two years which was exactly my point Doove. Why didn't he try to pass any of that the first two years? Can you answer that? All he had to do was propose a moderate answer to immigration and it would have passed on a bipartisan basis. He could have come up with a proposal to fix social security and it would have passed if it had been acceptable to the middle. You should be very mad that he did none of that. He wasted such an opportunity to advance an agenda but he just pissed it away and you're blaming republicans?

I said the same thing about Bill Clinton on foreign policy. We were the only superpower in the world. We could have done anything. Nudged a couple of nations to make peace or browbeat a couple of terrorist nations to disarm. He didn't do anything and, worst, he didn't even try.

As for the filibuster, I don't count the threat the same thing as a filibuster. Those were threats and used the cloture rule. Now the way to break a filibuster is to force the filibuster. Reid and Obama never forced the issue, they backed down. Which should tell anyone who plays poker that they didn't have the votes to pass the measures. So they didn't have all the democrats on board.

I love America. I despise the government. There is a difference.

So you did lie about putting me on ignore. What a shock. Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy

where did I say I did that?

Marshall is on ignore. You're making up shit again. You're the biggest purveyor of falsehood, diversion, deflection and defecation on this board.

I'll be working hard toward your inevitable ostracism, Bitchita. and that's the truth. You're a carbunkle on the thigh of a Whooker board. can't get much Lower that that.

tell me, bitch. YOU were the one who fled Jonestown, right? the one motherfucker who didn't have balls enough to stand if for what he believed in. RIGHT?

You're lying again. Please keep your word and put me on ignore.

For the last two years the left has used the election as an excuse for everything. If you don't pass Obama's jobs bill then it is about the election. If you don't extend the debt ceiling then it is the election. If you want answers to Fast and Furious then it is about the election. If you want answers to Benghazi then it is about the election. If you blame the democrats for not creating a budget then it is about the election.

That excuse is gone. You own it all now. It will be interesting to hear how you whine and cry now about how unfair people have been to Obama BECAUSE OF THE ELECTION. Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn

Everything is about the election you stupid motherfucker. For both parties.
What you are crying about is that the importance that you feel a subject has or the answers to questions that you "know" are right or wrong.
Think about it. You don't see an investigation as needing more time to be thorough. You see it as a chance to get a lie straight.
You jump on the band wagon with instant negative information and when that information is proven wrong, you scream cover-up. You expect them to prove to you the bullshit you heard and believed is bullshit. You believe anybody with something negative to say.


Enough about that.
Here is a list of bills that were passed in Obama's first 2 years.


January 29, 2009: Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, Pub.L. 111-2
February 4, 2009: Children's Health Insurance Program Re-authorization Act (SCHIP), Pub.L. 111-3
February 17, 2009: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), Pub.L. 111-5
March 11, 2009: Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009, Pub.L. 111-8
March 30, 2009: Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009, Pub.L. 111-11
April 21, 2009: Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, Pub.L. 111-13
May 20, 2009: Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009, Pub.L. 111-21
May 20, 2009: Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009, Pub.L. 111-22
May 22, 2009: Weapon Systems Acquisition Reform Act of 2009, Pub.L. 111-23
May 22, 2009: Credit CARD Act of 2009, Pub.L. 111-24
June 22, 2009: Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, as Division A of Pub.L. 111-31
June 24, 2009: Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2009 including the Car Allowance Rebate System (Cash for Clunkers), Pub.L. 111-32
October 28, 2009: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010, including the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, Pub.L. 111-84
November 6, 2009: Worker, Home ownership, and Business Assistance Act of 2009, Pub.L. 111-92
February 12, 2010: Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act, as Title I of Pub.L. 111-139
March 4, 2010: Travel Promotion Act of 2009, as Section 9 of Pub.L. 111-145
March 18, 2010: Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act, Pub.L. 111-147
March 23, 2010: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Pub.L. 111-148
March 30, 2010: Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, including the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act, Pub.L. 111-152
May 5, 2010: Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act of 2010, Pub.L. 111-163
July 1, 2010: Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010, Pub.L. 111-195
July 21, 2010: Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Pub.L. 111-203
August 10, 2010: SPEECH Act, Pub.L. 111-223
September 27, 2010: Small Business Jobs and Credit Act of 2010, Pub.L. 111-240
December 8, 2010: Claims Resolution Act of 2010, Pub.L. 111-291, H.R. 4783
December 13, 2010: Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, Pub.L. 111-296, S. 3307
December 17, 2010: Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Re-authorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010, Pub.L. 111-312, H.R. 4853
December 22, 2010: Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010, Pub.L. 111-321, H.R. 2965
January 2, 2011: James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010, Pub.L. 111-347, H.R. 847

The House passed the bill with a vote of 219 to 212 on March 21, 2010, with 34 Democrats and all 178 Republicans voting against it.[192] The following day, Republicans introduced legislation to repeal the bill.[193] Obama signed the original bill into law on March 23, 2010.[194]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv...atehealthcare/

if youre keeping score at home 58 votes is less than 60 Originally Posted by CJ7

Apparently you can't keep score at all. Or read for that matter.

Did you read the article you posted? It passed 60-39. That's 60, NOT 58.

Or are you going to claim that the two independents (Sanders, Lieberman) don't really count as reliable Democratic votes? They have two of the most liberal voting records in Congress.

Bernie Sanders is a border line communist. He was a supporter of Obamacare from the start. The same thing with Lieberman. The only reason Lieberman left the Democratic party and became an independent was over the war in Iraq. On social issues and entitlements, he is just to the left of Barney Frank.

So, yeah, the Democrats had 60 reliable votes - a veto proof majority if and when they needed it.

So, back to my original question. After Obamacare got passed, what was the other great initiative that the Democrats and/or Obama had that they couldn't get passed because of 40 Republicans? Can you name one?

I also refer you to the post immediately above mine where MunchMaster listed a whole bunch of bills that got passed in Obama's first 2 years. Pretty long list and it includes some controversial bills that the GOP opposed.

So much for the myth of the invincible GOP filibuster.

Did you read the article you posted? It passed 60-39. That's 60, NOT 58

click the senate link and see for yourself

58 dem votes 2 indies


this thread isnt about passing the healthcare bill, its about the dems having a supermajority, and the ability to berak a filibuster

Did you read the article you posted? It passed 60-39. That's 60, NOT 58

click the senate link and see for yourself Originally Posted by CJ7

I did. Several times.

It passed 60-39.

Yes votes - 0 GOP, 2 Ind, 58 Dems - 0+2+58 = 60.

No votes - 0 Dem, 0 Ind, 39 GOP - 0+0+39 = 39.

What do you think it says?