Alright Faust, you've taken another mindless shit (post with no factual base) that I have to clean up with fact. While its entertaining to show you the error of your ways, this is the last post I'm making unless you can come back with something more educated. Do your homework before you open your imbecilic mouth yet again.
Bush did indeed have a 90% approval rating. Go ahead and give NO credit to the 9/11 incident inflating those numbers. Through 2 terms, his approval rating declined like a sonar reading from the Mariana Trench, landing at a dismal sub 30%, enough so to break the color barrier on the presidential office. Truman? I guess if you look far enough back in history, you can always find something for support. Truman was a Democrat btw. Next....
Last I checked, there are 57 (out of 100) Democrats in the Senate. In the House, out of 435 voters, 256 are Democrats. The House isn't necessarily the problem here. Its pretty widely known that Democrats don't vote like a flock of geese, so you rarely see them fully unified on any issue as opposed to Republicans who typically vote almost unilaterally. Kudos to the Republicans on that.
Faust, you believe filibusters are fictional bogie-man in relation to this. Let me help you see the light. There were 112 cases of "No Vote" in 2009. That is an annual record and almost double, if not triple, to any previous Congress. Here's how it currently works:
Any 41 senators can vote No on ?cloture?, that is on bringing a bill to a vote, and that bill will never come to a vote, and anything the House of Representatives has done won?t matter. The modern filibuster is much more powerful than its historical predecessor because it is invisible: The Senate rules do not require any senator to actually hold the floor to filibuster. Instead, a minority of 41 senators simply notifies the Senate leadership of its intent to filibuster. Other Senate business goes on, but a vote on a particular issue dies unless you have 60 votes.
NEXT....
Current deficit is close to $1.5 trillion. Obama inherited $1.3 trillion of that from your old pal, Bush. Faust, your own Republican poster boys are even blaming the deficit on Bush. The day the Bush administration took over from President Bill Clinton in 2001, America enjoyed a $236 billion budget surplus. When the Bush administration left office, it handed President Obama a $1.3 trillion deficit and project shortfalls of $8 trillion for the next decade. During eight years in office, the Bush administration passed two major tax cuts skewed to the wealthiest Americans, enacted a costly Medicare prescription-drug benefit and waged two wars, without paying for any of it.
My work is done here.
