It hasn't happened in recent history. In fact, the last President whose party controlled the Senate with a filibuster-proof majority was Jimmy Carter. Obama is Jimmy Carter, Part Deux. Why? Because all the talk of bi-partisanship is bullshit. Democrats are going to ram through massive spending bills, raise taxes, and screw the economy in the biggest way since Carter's stagflation. Democrats on the Hill are privately very worried about what such a failure would do to them:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/11925.html --- snip --- No single party has held the White House, the House and a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate since the mid-1970s, when Jimmy Carter and a slew of Democrats took office after Watergate. The Democrats failed to come together to move on legislation to turn the economy around. In 1980, they lost the White House to Ronald Reagan and the Senate to the Republicans. Already, Democrats are feeling some of the pain of failed promises. They won control of the House and the Senate in 2006 in large part based on promises to end the war in Iraq. They haven't been able to deliver, and Congress is now down to single digits in a recent public opinion poll. Democrats note that Republicans seem to be getting most of the blame, but there would be no such luxury in a Washington controlled completely by the Democratic Party. --- snip --- On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Scott wrote: > To be honest, I don't recall when the Republicans controlled the White > House > and Congress and could break a filibuster with 60 senators. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:277851 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
