So why didn't Obama, with control of both houses of Congress, fix the economy? Ans: 24 days [View all]

The picture says (for copy-and-pasters into notes): "Senate Democrats during President Obama's first two years only had a filibuster-proof majority for about 24 congressional working days. The simple majority after that was not able to override the 241 Republican filibusters use to stall out proposed legislation"

Some more information from comments: ".. The brief window, after the seating of Senator Franken, and before the death of Senator Kennedy..." and someone else wrote: "Lieberman and Blanche Lincoln and Ben Nelson always announced they were backing the filibusters, and voted over and over and over again against cloture."

More comments at: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021396956



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As for the economy -- 4.6 Million private sector jobs (civilian, non-farm payroll jobs) created in the last 30 months (Bush's 8 year record: 673,000 private sector jobs LOST) -- for more on the economy (and some not so pleasant statistics too, links to almost all statistics to the official sources such as the Bureau of Labor Statistics) -- http://www.democraticunderground.com/111622439

Also a great collection of economic graphs put together by CabCurious and others at http://www.democraticunderground.com/125170175