as i said, the bill and vote was after the midterms when the Dems didn't have the (house) majority any longer and barely had the senate..add that in with the false "we've been given a mandate" and the whining that the Dems seats that were now GOP better not be used a majority because they were in essence 'lame ducks'..and hostage taking and ticking clock and you get a GOP play, with blame on the GOP..
which you've already admitted to since you said "Obama blinked" ...he couldn't have blinked if the GOP was with him and the Dem majority now could he, since there would be nothing to 'blink' over because they would have all be singing bennie and the jets together..
Like I said earlier,
extremely short term memory. Interestingly, on another site a few months ago I got in this same discussion about the renewal of the Bush tax cuts. At that time, it had only been about 6 months, and they were blaming the wacky Tea Party in Congress...sheesh, I'll tell you the same thing I told them: The Republicans that won those midterm elections were not seated until January. The Dems DID have the House at the time of the vote. Lame Duckery should have given the outgoing Dems more courage, not less.
I can blame the Dems for fucking up the health care bill.. so no, I can and do hold them responsible when it's their fault... too bad you can't when it's the GOP.. but being 'borg' I wouldn't expect any less..
as I've stated before.. Obama got massive shit done.. killed OBL, Al Awlaki and dozens of others, passed a healthcare bill, ended DADT.. etc etc etc.. so I don't know what 'angle' you're thinking I'm taking. You certainly can't be saying I would be embarrassed... because if we were going by a score card here, Obama has really proven to better than Bush ever was.. and we both know that if Obama had an (R) after his name, the hard-on you would have had for him these last 3 years would be chaffing by now.. He's been more (R) than (D) and we both know it, only you can't admit it or you'd lose your (R) card and be jettisoned from the Borg.
I've mentioned many times that I've been mostly pleased about Obama's national security policies. Of course, he's mostly copied Bush's so there is very much a continuity of policy. Of course I do have my differences, such as the targeted assassination of Al Awlaki. He was a terrorist or at least a terrorist enabler, and I'm glad he's dead, but US citizens shouldn't be on targeted assassination lists. Interesting that you list his assassination as a success of the Obama administration. Once again, you've proved my point (and by no means for the first time) that your whining about civil liberties being crushed under the jackboots of Bush and Cheney was simply partisan bullshit. It was never the policies; when a democrat does worse you're fine with it. It was only about what whether a D or R was after the name.
Obama winning that election has been a disaster for the economy, but such a boon for my posts. I've been able to prove the lib hypocrisy soooo many times because he's been in office! He may drive our economy into the ground, but I can count on you to prove me right again and again!
