Look, guy, 2009. Post financial Apocalypse. OVERWHELMING DEMOCRAT MAJORITY.
What were they able to get from that? If you go back and read the mechanisms proposed for Obamacare, you’ll see that the Democrats, even with that majority, could often not get things the left wing of the party wanted. EVEN WITH THAT MAJORITY, Obamacare evolved to have the involvement of private insurers. Not a single payer government healthcare plan like Canada or the UK. No, all these private companies remained involved — and Pelosi DID NOT WANT THAT.
Reid DID NOT WANT THAT. They wanted a UK or Canada style National Health Service. Even with an absolutely huge majority in both houses, all they could get was Obamacare, and had to use Reconciliation for even that.
With Obama’s HUGE landslide popular vote AND electoral vote margins, all they could pass was Obamacare.
The GOP will get VERY little through. Repeal of Obamacare is a done deal. Then they have to replace it and THAT won’t be a done deal at all.
Deportations? Whatever Trump can do with NO INCREASE IN INS BUDGET will happen, and it won’t be much.
Even the USSC has to get past the GOP moderate senators.
Frankly, that restraint may win in 2020. Over-reach is suicide. They gave away that huge majority via over-reach.
“The GOP will get VERY little through. Repeal of Obamacare is a done deal. Then they have to replace it and THAT won’t be a done deal at all.”
Remember Contract with America? Got everything passed through Bill Clinton. We can do better with Trump