As Democrats' Message Lags, GOP Awaits Huge Wins

'Party government' runs the US Congress, has since the late 1790s, and the Democratic Party has controlled both Houses of Congress (with a supermajority in the Senate) and the White House since 2008.



That's what being in the majority party's caucus means -- You get the perks of the power by caucusing with the majority party. If you want to keep that committee chair, you do as the leaders of the party tell you to do.



There is nothing that Democrats in Congress are doing that Obama hasn't signed off on, much less ordered.



When you're the president, you are the head of your political party. When your political party controls both Houses of Congress & the White House, you do what the head of your party tells you to do. The only people who don't understand this are those who have never worked in politics or in government.



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