Reply #6: So you ignored the challange ... but I will still play ... [View All]

You wanted Obama to invoke the nuclear option. Ok ... how does he do that, exactly?

Reid and the Senate Dems would have been needed to even threaten it. Obama could not make it happen.

And who do we meet again, the bluedogs. They can simply say that they are protecting the Dems from a future in which Dems can't filibuster the GOP. They don't really care about that, but that framing is more than enough cover for them.

As for the town halls ... Obama was going to stop "corporate funded" tea party clowns from going to town halls and screaming like maniacs? How exactly?

Legislation requires VOTES. And unless you can explain SPECIFICALLY how you, as president, would have obtained them, its all conjecture.

In almost every case you cite, you need Leiberman and Nelson (and that assumes that you have all of the others in the bag). Unless you can explain SPECIFICALLY how you flip those two, you have nothing.