MSNBC's Thomas Roberts Laughably Insists Democrats Didn't Control Congress for Two Years...

NewsBusters.org ^ | September 21, 2012 | Matt Vespa

[Kaslin]

The entire title is: MSNBC's Thomas Roberts Laughably Insists Democrats Didn't Control Congress for Two Years of Obama Term

[dalebert]

hahahhahahha

[shadeaud]

I don’t even own a dog

[FreedBird]

Why do Democrats sound so stupid? Can’t some of them say something useful or with some understanding?

[richardtavor]

No.

[GeronL]

They are ignorant shills for their Lord & Master aren’t they?

[demkicker]

Because most of them ARE STUPID!!! The rest are Marxists, Communists or Socialists. That’s the complete make up of the democRAT party - and that’s the truth.

[FreedBird]

In other words, the Democrats are not capable of using common sense. They may have not been born with common sense!

[OrangeHoof]

Talking point: Obama got Obamacare passed without a single Republican vote. If he passed Obamacare without one, he could have passed whatever he wanted if he had chosen to send it through and been able to get his own party to endorse it. That's a fact.

[dvwjr]

The Democrats controlled the House of Representatives during the 2009-2011 session with a (257/256/255) Democrat Majority to 178 Republican Minority.

The Democrats had a filibuster proof Majority of 60 Senators (58 Democrats plus two "Independents" who voted with them) for the following time periods:

1.) July 7th, 2009 to August 25th, 2009

2.) September 25th, 2009 to February 4th, 2010 

dvwjr

[mykroar]

Who was the idiot Dem (but I repeat myself) I saw yesterday or the day before arguing that the Senate had passed a budget (he was counting the continuing resolution and trying to maintain it was a better way to control spending)?

[Tex-Con-Man]

Still not as reality challenged as space cadet Pelosi’s daily blathering.

[Rapscallion]

MSNBC's Thomas Roberts Laughably Insists Democrats Didn't Control Congress for Two Years of Obama Term

And this not Obama's depression.

[FredZarguna]

Nothing in your post changes the fact that they had control for two full years.

Having a filibuster-proof majority for any period of that time near the end of session would have allowed them to pass the entirety of their agenda provided only that they were careful procedurally.

Furthermore, not all of the business of the Senate requires a cloture vote. The ACA, arguably the most important (read: damaging) piece of legislation was passed with less than a filibuster-proof majority.

[Emperor Palpatine]

A man was walking down the street when he got hit on the head by a grand piano. At the hospital the doctor told his wife that the only possible hope of saving her husband's life was a brain transplant. She agreed. Then the doctor told her that since this was new experimental procedure no insurance company would cover the surgery, so she'd have to pay for it herself.

She asked the doctor how much it would cost, and the doctor said, "Well, Ma'am, we have two prices because we have two different brains we could use. We have a conservative's brain, and that one will cost you $500. We also have a liberal's brain and that one is $100,000."

"Why such a big difference in the price?", she asked.

The doctor looked her in the eye and said, "Because the conservative's brain has been used, Ma'am."

[KantianBurke]

Odd. Plenty of bots act in the same manner about the GOP, big spending and Congressional control from 02-06.

[FreedBird]

Maybe the liberals all read teleprompters. They must have the talking points or they are lost. If you question the talking points they throw a fit, emotional confusion emerges. Their minds cannot function. They must blame someone else for their loss of mind.

[TBP]

OK, all but 17 days of the first two yeasrs. (The congressional term starts on January 3, the President’s term on January 20.) Technical point, an dutterly irrelevant. Typical MSLSD.

[corlorde]

Yep, and Obama was blaming Republicans for not getting immigration reform done in his first two years.

[wny]

It wasn’t the full 2 years....demholes didn’t get 60 seats until after the theft of Norm Coleman’s seat was complete and Specter flipped...don’t recall which was first