Obama had controlling majorities in both houses of Congress his first 2 years.
Including a filibuster proof majority in the Senate. If they knew what they were doing they could have passed any legislation they wanted to.
The problem was with the poor leadership from Obama, Reid and Pelosi. They could not get a majority of their own party members on board with their plans.
Quick update. Apparently Bob Woodward, Watergate fame, has a book coming out blasting the democrat leadership. At one point he details how the President went into a rambling lecture while on a debt conference call with Pelosi. She is reported by witnesses to have muted her side of the call and let him drone on for almost an hour while her and Reid tried to work on the issue.
http://money.cnn.com/2012/09/06/news/economy/woodward-debt-ceiling/index.html So please forget blaming republicans. It sounds like a child whining or fingernails on a chalkboard.
The situation is so bad within the democrat party that they have failed to even pass a budget during Obamas term in office. The crowning glory of it was Obamas 2012 budget going down by a 99 to 1 vote in the Senate with guess who being the only supporter. Not a single democrat supported it even though they had an easy majority and could have passed it.
Even after Teddy Kennedy died to get past any filibuster they only need to convince 1 republican to join them. Republican moderate Scott Brown (R-MA) is that reasonable person. He has been voted the 1st or 2nd most bipartisan member of Congress for 2011 by nearly every honest policy tracking organization. Even now they just have to convince 4 republicans to vote with them.
Recently Brown and Snowe have been very compromising. Leadership gets their votes and quits trying so they can blame republicans.
Face it. Obama is a piss poor leader if he cannot convince his own people and 1 lone republican to support him on a budget bill.
So blaming republicans is just a poor excuse for bad leadership. Please give up that sad argument.
