The last third of this article is the most important.
The last third of this article is the most important. As long as the #POO (Party of Obstruction) has no problem with violating the norms of respectful politicking then the Left will always be outgunned.
And that’s the real point. Republicans have absolutely no problem breaking any norm in their path to power. They turned the filibuster from a seldom-used tool to a routine exercise. Tom DeLay saw advantage in doing a second redistricting in Texas in 2003 to pick up extra GOP seats, even though states normally redistrict every 10 years; he succeeded. Congress typically passes the debt limit without comment, but Republicans took the country to the brink of its first default, extracting concessions in the process. A minority of the Senate prevented the confirmation for years of any director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau simply because they didn’t like the agency. The opposition party would never attempt to conduct foreign policy that differed from the president’s, until Republican senators tried it before the Iran deal.
https://newrepublic.com/article/138787/obama-can-put-merrick-garland-supreme-court
And that’s the real point. Republicans have absolutely no problem breaking any norm in their path to power. They turned the filibuster from a seldom-used tool to a routine exercise. Tom DeLay saw advantage in doing a second redistricting in Texas in 2003 to pick up extra GOP seats, even though states normally redistrict every 10 years; he succeeded. Congress typically passes the debt limit without comment, but Republicans took the country to the brink of its first default, extracting concessions in the process. A minority of the Senate prevented the confirmation for years of any director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau simply because they didn’t like the agency. The opposition party would never attempt to conduct foreign policy that differed from the president’s, until Republican senators tried it before the Iran deal.
https://newrepublic.com/article/138787/obama-can-put-merrick-garland-supreme-court
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I'm a democrat and I voted for Trump because Hillary proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that she was less than truthful to the American public with their campaign promises and the self dealing and pay to play uncovered in the emails was a big part as well. Things would have been different if Sanders was allowed to win the primary as he should have.
Hillary Clinton is to blame for all of this.
But yes, I believe the GOP spent eight years being the Party of Obstruction. One glaring example is the SCotUS nomination of Garland. Obama went out of his way to find a moderate for the court and not a liberal. The GOP refuses to even hold hearings on the nomination. That's obstruction.
I just wish you were a little smarter and a little less of a tool, bur then again you were a Hillary supporter, and we see that was a bad side to be on. Lol.