is that the Senate controlled chamber could have done what Reid did, time and again, was to stop the Dem filibusters in their tracks and the bill would have passed......leaving BO to decide to veto the bill. The fact that the Senate tried to play by the REAL rules of how the Senate governs rather than by the same Reid tricks that he used is actually a good thing, even if it angered some members.
The left is absolutely obsessed with the Tea Party and needs to get over itself or you will end up with far more being elected and moderates on both sides being dumped along the side of the road....as it stands right now, the Dem party has a whole lot more far left members like Elizabeth Warren (BO on steroids) because the 'blue dog' Dems are all but gone........and potential Tea Party groups (now that a good many of them have finally gotten their tax exempt status and can fund raise now) will be going full force in the very near future. And there are far more Dems in both Houses that are being very open about not agreeing with BO's stance on a number of issues now......that may be because they want to keep the seats they have in the next election or because they finally realize that they are fast becoming a dying breed to the extreme far left radicals who run now and they see the damage that those agendas have done over the last six years already.

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