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Technically they had a filibuster proof Senate. In reality they didn't. Like Joe said. The Blue Dog dems voted Republican in most cases. They didn't really have a right to occupy the seats they were in anyway. The only reason they got elected was outrage at Bush. In addition to that the dems are much different in their voting than the pubs. The pubs are literally in lock step with whoever is running them. They vote with their party down to the last man usually. The dems hold their fingers up in the air to see which way the wind is blowing and vote whatever is best for their re election chances.
The health care package is projected to save 800 billion over 10 years by the CBO. No cost there. Without the stimulus we would be in a lot worse shape than we currently are. The stimulus should have been much bigger than it was. They shouldn't have wasted 40% of it on tax cuts that only democrats that paid attention even knew about. Most of the people that watch Fox actually thought we had a Federal tax increase. So that was a serious waste.
I fully agree with your last two sentences though.
Technically they had a filibuster proof Senate. In reality they didn't. Like Joe said. The Blue Dog dems voted Republican in most cases. They didn't really have a right to occupy the seats they were in anyway. The only reason they got elected was outrage at Bush. In addition to that the dems are much different in their voting than the pubs. The pubs are literally in lock step with whoever is running them. They vote with their party down to the last man usually. The dems hold their fingers up in the air to see which way the wind is blowing and vote whatever is best for their re election chances.
The health care package is projected to save 800 billion over 10 years by the CBO. No cost there. Without the stimulus we would be in a lot worse shape than we currently are. The stimulus should have been much bigger than it was. They shouldn't have wasted 40% of it on tax cuts that only democrats that paid attention even knew about. Most of the people that watch Fox actually thought we had a Federal tax increase. So that was a serious waste.
I fully agree with your last two sentences though.