Why do ReTHUGs repeat the lie that Obama could have passed

[malaise]

anything he wanted when ReTHUGs in the Senate blocked almost every damned thing.

[kentuck]

1. They repeat the lie because...

they can.

[Cosmocat]

9. THIS!

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[meaculpa2011]

2. Because they passed the current ACA...

with a simple majority in the Senate by using reconciliation. They could have used the same strategy to pass anything they wanted, but chose this.

[kentuck]

4. They still had to get 60 votes to continue debate in the Senate...

That was not as easy as you assume.

[Capt. Obvious]

8. Reconciliation can only be used on budget items

The one time they did use it for something big - they could have shot the moon.

They probably should have in hindsight.

[JHB]

3. Because if you want a fogbank to obscure facts...

...it takes big steaming piles of elephant dung to get a cloud thick enough.

[Historic NY]

5. Democrats had a 60 seat majority from September 24, 2009 thru February 4, 2010

Democrats had a 60 seat majority from September 24, 2009 thru February 4, 2010. 4 months; not 2 years! Then knock another 30 days for recess

http://www.winningprogressive.org/president-obama-did-not-control-congress-for-two-years

[Capt. Obvious]

10. 9/24/09

That must be when Franken was seated?

[rurallib]

21. I believe you have to count traitor Joe the Lieberhole

as a Dem to get that number.

Still begs the question, why do Repugs need 51 to have a majority and Dems must have 60. This needs to be fixed.

[bec]

6. They can repeat this

because the average American does not know how our political system works and they believe the lies being fed to them. They don't question it, they don't investigate it, they just believe it...

[blm]

7. They know the parrots in corporate media will repeat the lie. There was NEVER a filibuster-proof

majority, yet, the corporate media let's every Repub get away with claiming there was, and even repeat the lie themselves to their viewers.

[malaise]

13. It was the parrots in the media led by Joe Scum

pushing this talking point this morning. I thought Al Sharpton would have corrected them but he let them get away with it

[pinboy3niner]

11. Republicans lie?

Color me shocked.

[The Wizard]

12. Republicans lie

It's in their DNA, and the media never calls them on the lie, instead choosing to give the lie the same weight as the truth so as to appear "fair and balanced." And when a professed news organization says they're fair and balanced they're saying everyone else is lying, the language of a cult. Anyone thinking the Republicans are a political party and not a cult isn't paying attention or hasn't the ability to critically think.
Pox News serves to provide cover for the rest of the corporate media to broadcast a more subtle propaganda that is more dangerous as it's concealed in slippery language.
Somewhere the spirit of Joseph Goebbels is smiling or green with envy.

[pinboy3niner]

14. I've been watchng Soledad O'Brien's show on CNN this morning

She was holding a Romney spokesman's feet to the fire, trying to get a straight answer to a simple question: Does Romney support Arizona's SB 1070 or not?

It went on for some time with the guy, top Romney advisor Carlos Gutierrez, never answering the question despite O'Brien's continued pressing, "It's a yes or no question."

There are some good journalists out there--but you sure as hell won't find them at FNC, brother.

[malaise]

15. They can't answer

because Rmoney said SB1070 was the model for all states.

[pinboy3niner]

19. You're right, malaise

They won't answer because, on many issues, RMoney's campaign is torpedo'd by his record. How inconvenient that the media recorded what he said.

[Historic NY]

22. REPUBLICANS CONTROLLED THE HOUSE, SENATE & PRESIDENCY (BUSH) FROM 2001 TO 2007! 6 YRS!

[spanone]

16. they repeat it because they lie....over & over & over

[MadHound]

17. Why do Dems repeat the lie that Obama couldn't pass a damn thing

When the fact of the matter is that Obama could have passed a lot more through if he had coming out swinging his first year in the same manner he has come out swing this year.

Instead, he tried to play nice, be bipartisan, compromise, and we're paying the price for that mistake.

[spanone]

18. that's what politician do. sorry to inform you of that.

[pinboy3niner]

20. The notion that Obama could have done anything he wanted to early on...

...is a fiction. Even during the new President's brief 'honeymoon' he faced powerful resistance in both houses of Congress.

Obama's term has been a testament to the adage that "politics is the art of the possible."