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the Dems NEVER had a filibusterproof Senate (60 Dem Senators). There were 57 Dem Senators most of the time (Blue Dogs included), and 58 for 6 months.That means that they needed ALL the Blue Dogs, two Independents, and at least one Republican, simply to have the legal right to start voting on a bill. So OF COURSE in those circumstances you can only pass centrist bills.

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It's actually funny how Obama's 'most ardent supporters' believe that Republicans can get done with 41 seats in the Senate (stymie Obama and a Democratic -controlle d Congress, both Houses) what Democrats couldn't get done (stymie Bush as a minority party with a significantly greater number of seats than Republicans held from 2000-2006 than now, and later as the majority party of both Houses of Congress ever since).



In the election cycles from 2000 to today, Democrats had 51 senators, 49, 45, 51, and 60 in their caucus.



Democrats have everyone they need to do the job they were put into power to do for the American people. They've not only had all the t00ls needed to do what they were put into power to do, they had a clear undisputed mandate of the voters, which is something that Bush & Cheney didn't have. Yet it didn't stop Bush & Cheney from pulling out all of the stops to get their agenda through.



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