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Why not prosecuting about 300 GOP Representatives for sedition, that allowed them to run and get reelected and it also turned a lot of leftists against Biden but not for Trump. I would be Biden's biggest fan if he would have prosecuted the insurrectionist who were responsible for the coup, not just the little guys. By giving the GOP control of the Congress, who are now threatening to bankrupt the country, again. If the Democrats were in charge of the Congress, more supreme Court justices could have been added ,and the supreme Court could have been taken back from the right wing lunatics. Biden lost a lot of future voters for the Democrats.

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I share your frustrations; The Democrats controlled congress when Obama was president

The Democrats initially controlled Congress during the Obama administration, but the Republicans would win the House and Senate in 2010. Obama came into office in 2009 with a supermajority in the U.S. House and Senate and set about passing his agenda including his reform of the health care industry.

However, the Senate supermajority only lasted for a period of 72 working days while the Senate was actually in session. . He did not take advantage of this majority, except to

congress when Obama was in charge and as you recall Mitch would not approve Garland as an associate justice of SCOTUS, and just as well,, if he had then liberals would have been very upset with Obama appointing and ultra conservative (Marrick Garland) to the Supreme Court

I can't think of anything that Obama achieved in his eight years, not even for American Descendants of Slaves, Which he wasn't. His father was a Kenyan and his mother an American Descendant of slave owners.

In the 2010 midterm elections, the Republican Party won the majority in the House of Representatives. While the Democrats kept their Senate majority, it was reduced from the previous Congress.

What I am saying is that Biden did no give control of Congress to the Republicans, it actually held on to the Senate, but without a 60 vote majority to overcome the filibuster, and for that I blame Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer because both could have retired the filibuster and didn't.

Then came the Trump wave in 2016. A "red wave" was expected (by the effin media) in 2020, and it didn't materialize because the public was fed up with crooked, perverted Trump, and as you know it isn't over, because the Republicans have passed voter suppression and voter negation laws meant to make Trump president again, and to disenfranchise the Democratic base. And Biden and Trump's DOJ sits there like a stone wall. Doing nothing.

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Yep, it is frustrating all right. Ignorance is bliss until it isn't, then it is too late. You are right though, the Democrats had the opportunity to initiate single-payer or Medicare for all or socialized healthcare for all and failed to do so also. So many failures, it is hard to keep track.

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They are afraid of antagonizing the oil cabal.

And then there the likes of Sen Menendez of NJ. The man is corrupt and is being investigated, he is also PhRMA's slave in the Senate. PhRMA has been his biggest megadonor.

Problem is money and the idea that money is speech, and corporations are people.

We do have the best government money can buy.

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