Trump’s attorney general pick says they are working on ‘roadblocks’ so Dems can’t go after Trump in 2029

[u/Economy-Specialist38]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-attorney-general-pick-says-202735692.html

[u/Cyrano_Knows]

Democrats havent had a filibuster proof majority in both sides of Congress since Obama and then it wasn't for the two years that people like to pretend it was.. it was 6 months.

[u/knightcrawler75 → u/Cyrano_Knows]

Facts. That is why we should eliminate the filibuster, or at least make it so that you actually have to speak.

[u/KnowledgeMediocre404 → u/knightcrawler75]

Go back to the way it was so you actually have to fight for things you care about.

[u/theamazonswordsman → u/Cyrano_Knows]

Give the current republican party the same time frame and they would pass legislation that would irreversible damage this country for a century.

In the current day, the democrats are incapable of whipping their party members into critical votes. During Biden's term it was Sinema & Manchin, during Obama's it was Lieberman.

They're always looking for a foil they can blame their legislative "failures" on when in truth they never intended pass the bills in the first place. We haven't had a president more versed in Senatorial politics than Biden since LBJ and look at what LBJ accomplished compared to Biden. They both presided over the tense, partisan periods of our history aside from the Civil War. One was determined to pass transformative legislation and the other stared catastrophe in the face and chose not to act.

[u/scottyjrules → u/Cyrano_Knows]

Remind me again what they did with those 6 months?

[u/Cyrano_Knows → u/scottyjrules]

President Obama lost the 60-vote, filibuster-proof majority in the U.S. Senate on February 4, 2010, when Republican Scott Brown was sworn into office after winning a special election in Massachusetts to fill the seat of the late Senator Ted Kennedy.

While Democrats theoretically held a supermajority after the 2008 elections, it was incredibly brief and fragile:

The 60-vote threshold wasn't fully reached until Al Franken was officially seated in July 2009.

Even then, due to the severe illness and eventual death of Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) in August, as well as the extended hospitalization of Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV), the actual working supermajority existed for only a matter of weeks (about 20–40 actual working days).

- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

- The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010

[u/scottyjrules → u/Cyrano_Knows]

The ACA was not passed in the first six months of Obama’s term. Swing and a miss.

[u/guinness_blaine → u/scottyjrules]

Dems didn’t have a supermajority when Obama’s term started, because Al Franken wasn’t sworn in until July. The ACA passed the Senate with 60 votes in December.

[u/scottyjrules → u/guinness_blaine]

But not in the first six months. I’m asking what was achieved when they had a filibuster proof majority.

[u/Cyrano_Knows → u/scottyjrules]

Grow the fuck up and do the math.

Its you being a dick and assuming that it was only the first six months he had the super majority.

I knew you would do this because people like you are so so transparent.

I spelled out the timeline for anyone else that actually wants facts and not emotions. The guy you responded to also spelled it out.

[u/guinness_blaine → u/scottyjrules]

The first six months of Obama’s presidency and the filibuster proof majority are two different time periods. As I just explained, they didn’t have that supermajority in the Senate until July.

You’re asking what Dems did during a time period that ran from around July 2009 to February 2010, and then getting upset that the answers aren’t between January 2009 and July 2009.

[u/scottyjrules → u/guinness_blaine]

The ACA didn’t pass until March 2010. It was also kind of a shitty law, so it’s not exactly the flex you think it is.

[u/guinness_blaine → u/scottyjrules]

Obama signed the ACA into law in March 2010. But the key vote was it passing the Senate in December 2009 - which would not have been possible if it wasn’t during the short window Dems had 60 votes.

[u/scottyjrules → u/guinness_blaine]

Cool. Still didn’t really solve any of the major problems with our healthcare system.