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- 3tcp, on 07/23/2008, -0/+1When Obama becomes president you're going to wish they didn't have a filibuster-proof majority. The most corrupt, tyrannical and wasteful governments are the ones where one party controls both houses of congress and the white house.
Democrats didn't seem so bad when they ran congress before Bill Clinton became president in 1992 - republicans won a majority in the house and senate in 1994.
Republicans didn't seem so bad when they ran congress while Clinton was president but then Bush became president - we now have a democratic majority in both houses of congress.
If democrats have a filibuster proof senate and a majority in the house when Obama becomes president I guarantee you that the republicans will retake at least the house by 2012. The biggest thing that McCain has going for him is that his election would prevent a one-party government. - ybfree, on 07/23/2008, -0/+1I will be happy when there are more than two parties in the mess called Congress. Plus the Dems might has well been a Republican Congress because nothing has changed since the "power shift". I want more legislatures like Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich in there!
- mrswirl, on 07/23/2008, -0/+1While I agree that having too much of a shift in the balance of power is never a good thing, the current culture of partisan warfare being waged in Washington these days pretty much ensures that nothing of any significance will get passed without a super-majority by one of the parties.
The current Dem Congress has been effectively neutered by the Repub minority - which is payback for the way the Dems stalled (or tried to) most of the Repub legislation during the first 6 years of the Bush administration. And those parlimentary tricks by the Dems were payback for the Republican antics during the Clinton administration, and so on, and so on...etc....
It seems like you have to go all the way back to Nixon to find the last time we had any real bipartisanship cooperation in Congress.
Pardon the analogy, but it's been like watching the Sunnis vs. the Shiites for the last 30 years. - sandiegodude, on 07/23/2008, -0/+1Hmmm, not quite sure how I feel about this one. While I think most Republican senators are complete asshats, I'm a bit worried when the balance of power in the governing body shifts too far to one side (GOP or Dems). I guess it doesn't really matter at this point though, considering the travesties Bush has performed in axing the system of checks and balances in our government. Maybe this will help push the system back where it needs to be.... Or it could make it a whole lot worse, especially if the Democrats fall for political fear-mongering again. (it's happened before, remember the patriot act and the weeks before the start of the war in Iraq?)
We'll see how it goes I guess.
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