Sure: because Republicans were only in the minority in Congress/Senate for the first two years of Obama's presidency. Do you remember the Tea Party surge in 2010? I do! GOP gained the house, took leadership of House committees, and gained enough seats in the Senate to deploy the filibuster. - ThreadSky

omegabunny.bsky.social • 6 days ago

Sure: because Republicans were only in the minority in Congress/Senate for the first two years of Obama's presidency. Do you remember the Tea Party surge in 2010? I do! GOP gained the house, took leadership of House committees, and gained enough seats in the Senate to deploy the filibuster.

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grrrlromeo.bsky.social•6 days ago

It's really weird how you guys keep saying Democrats have no power when the GOP has a razor thin majority, and also have no power unless Democrats have a super majority and the Presidency. It's almost like the Democrats are a party of weak-ass incompetent politicians.

juliannenomad.bsky.social•5 days ago

It's almost like Democrats are more afraid of pissing off their corporate donors than anything else. They aren't "weak". They're bought.

grrrlromeo.bsky.social•6 days ago

Mitch McConnell was the Senate Minority leader from 2007-2015. Democrats had the majority in the Senate for almost the entirety of Obama's administration.

omegabunny.bsky.social•6 days ago

Yeah, and he had a Majority in the House who used the power of committee and purse to gum up the works for Obama, and additionally they had sufficient seats to use the filibuster, making McConnell's job even easier. Remember how the Dems had to get rid of the filibuster for cabinet appointees?

omegabunny.bsky.social•6 days ago

I genuinely don't think you remember how it was basically impossible for the GOP to do anything to stop Obama's legislative priorities for the first two years with a full trifecta. And then it got easier for them to make shit hard *when they had power in at least one part of the Government*.

grrrlromeo.bsky.social•6 days ago

I remember it quite clearly. The ACA is a shell of what Obama wanted as was the 2009 Recovery stimulus.

omegabunny.bsky.social•6 days ago

Because some concessions were made to ensure the final version of the ACA that passed had 60 votes, including the defection of Arlen Specter from the GOP (which partially came about as a result of McConnell's threat to filibuster the ACA and the rightward swing of the party).

grrrlromeo.bsky.social•6 days ago

Basically Republicans are better at wielding power when they're in the minority than Democrats are.

planxconstant.bsky.social•6 days ago

Democrats CURRENTLY have enough Senate seats to filibuster. Cloture takes 60 votes.

turnerjoy.bsky.social•5 days ago

There are different rules between appointment confirmations and passing laws.

They did real actual filibuster of Hegseth; but the maximum they could go on for was 30 hours, which they did.

grrrlromeo.bsky.social•6 days ago

They don't even have to do that. It only takes one Senator to object to unanimous consent on cabinet confirmations to slow things down. But they'd have to give up their 3 and 4 day weekends.

omegabunny.bsky.social•6 days ago

Cloture for Executive branch nominations doesn't. It was changed to be simple majority.

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