Guess what?
He ALMOST IS!
http://www.congress.org/...
Obama won 96.7% of Congress votes last year for positions he wanted.
That's 4 points below the record set in 1965, by LBJ.
There's a reason he's called No Drama Obama.
Yes, I wish he didn't let his detractors scream and yell and give the media their talking points. I really wish he didn't.
But you know what, if this calm, determined person manages to keep this track record, quietly building progressive lesgilation (yes I know, not progressive enough but at least we're not going backwards), we would be VERY lucky.
I know it's tempting to believe he's just not tough enough, loud enough, cunning enough to bend Congress to his will.
He's NOT Bush. As they said themselves, he's not of the " pumping his chest" type.
But guess what, he's getting them to go his way. Some might not like which way it is ( I personally have no MAJOR complaints..yeah yeah yeah Obamabot)...but he IS getting them to work with him.
Bush got all his testosterone fill , letting us know " who da man!!".
But his legislative record isn't that great. No matter what they try to tell you.
Obviously, 60 Dems in the senate and a HUGE majority in the House played a part.
We can always push them. We can talk to them, when we feel like they're not going the right way.
But if we somehow believe that we're going to teach them a lesson by not voting for them etc etc, and letting Republicans take their place....
UGH!
Have you listened to a Republican lately???!!!