MasterBrentC
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ORIGINAL: MasterBrentC Lucy said - - ANd the repubs have blocked his bills......... I defy you to name one of Obama policies that the Republicans have blocked? Just one. Please. Immigration reform,Oil Spill Liability, carbon, have you forgotton the shutdowns, and the SCOTUS issue. Women Veterans and Families Health Services Act (2014) Veterans Job COrps Act 2012 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/post/bill-to-create-veterans-job-corps-fails-to-advance/2012/09/19/a56b532c-0270-11e2-91e7-2962c74e7738_blog.html Most commentators I have read have described the GOP's approach to Obama's Presidency as one of total non-cooperation and obstruction on any level from Day 1. Here's one example from the NYT in 2010: "Before the health care fight, before the economic stimulus package, before President Obama even took office, Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican minority leader, had a strategy for his party: use his extensive knowledge of Senate procedure to slow things down, take advantage of the difficulties Democrats would have in governing and deny Democrats any Republican support on big legislation. Mr. McConnell, left, and his House counterpart, Representative John A. Boehner, have urged their members to avoid making deals with the majority. Republicans embraced it. Democrats denounced it as rank obstructionism. Either way, it has led the two parties, as much as any other factor, to where they are right now. Republicans are monolithically against the health care legislation, leaving the president and his party executing parliamentary back flips to get it passed, conservatives revived, liberals wondering what happened. In the process, Mr. McConnell, 68, a Kentuckian more at home plotting tactics in the cloakroom than writing legislation in a committee room or exhorting crowds on the campaign trail, has come to embody a kind of oppositional politics that critics say has left voters cynical about Washington, the Senate all but dysfunctional and the Republican Party without a positive agenda or message. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/us/politics/17mcconnell.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 It would appear that Master B's connection with the internal realities of US politics is as tenuous as his connection with the external realities that I examined in pst #24 above. I do hope he is on good terms with his local dealer. That might help his vision become clearer than it is currently. And yet Obamacare was passed without a single republican voting for it. So it cannot be said that the Republicans blocked obamacare.
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