"Wes" wrote in message
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"John R. Carroll" wrote:

Not for a long time Tom.
They have had a simple majority for the last 20 months but that's it.
The last majority was Republican and it lasted ten years.
Six of those years included control of all three branches.


Unless the Republicans had 2/3's of the Senate during those 6 years, their
majority was
simple also.

Wes

That would be true if both parties were both the same. They're not.
Republicans vote as a block in general. It's rare for a republican to cross
over and vote with the Democrats. Conversely, the entire time the
republicans had large majorities in congress they could always count on a
number of Democrats, like Joe Lieberman, to vote with them thus giving them
all the votes they needed to pass the legislation the party wanted passed.
If you want to see the difference in action take a look at how many
republicans have crossed over and voted with the Democrats since '06 when
the Democrats got the majority. You will find that the Democrats have been
virtually powerless to pass any legislation because of the solidarity of the
republicans and the veto pen of Bush. So you see, the truth is the
republicans were able to pass virtually all of the legislation they wanted
to for at least six years. The Democrats can't do that. If we get a Democrat
in the White House and big majorities in congress then they will be in the
position the republicans used to be in. Until that happens the only party
that has been in the driver's seat has been the republicans, and that is why
the problems we have today were caused by them. They were in control of all
three branches of the government. But being the cowardly hypocrites
republicans are, instead of owning up to the failure of their policies what
have they done? They tried to pass the blame on to the Democrats. But then
that's exactly what I would expect them to do. I mean, to expect a
republican to act honorably is really laughable.

Hawke