Yea, when Carter was in office, I was 10, which mighgt explain why I could not remember it. ;)
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Robert Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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:277854 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
