I poked at Obama’s Rolling Stone interview earlier. Reading more of that interview, I’ve had to stop and take a shower just to feel clean. The questions are sophomoric and obvious softballs. But when I got to the following question, I couldn’t take anymore:
Is there any way to break through that obstructionism by Republicans?
Once again, in order to even frame the question this way, you’re either utterly ignorant of basic civics, or you’re deliberately misinforming your audience. Which is it Rolling Stone?
Consider, it is simple fact that for the first two years of President Obama’s term he had a Democrat majority in both houses of congress. Obstruction by Republicans simply wasn’t possible. The suggestion is simply laughable.
Now, in November 2010 the Republican Party won a majority in one of the two chambers of the Legislature, the House of Representatives. Meanwhile, the Senate, the other body in the Legislature, has been controlled by a Democrat majority from Obama’s inauguration to this day.
There’s nothing controversial about those statements of fact.
This means that for only one third of his term Obama has had only a half of the Legislature with his party not in the majority. Yet he hasn’t been able to get any serious legislation through. And blames Republicans for obstruction.
How did the Democrat-controlled Senate vote on Obama’s budget? 97-0. But obstructionist Republicans are the problem. Mustn’t interrupt The Narrative.