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I like to avoid flipping my arguments 180 degrees everytime power changes hands, as say Hannity does. That would make me dizzy.

The same argument can be made by Dems in 2007 and 2008 when they took the House and had 51 in the Senate which is not a ruling majority.

No need to get dizzy when you look at it in a historical perspective and get out of the minutiae.

And I will cede that the way the Rats use power is much different than the Republicans but it must be really nice when you have most public media outlets watching your back for you. The Republicans have to walk on eggshells when trying to frame the argument and Reagan was the master of that. I will also point out a bit of deception on your part with the 51 Rat Senators in 2007. While essentially true, please remember they had 2 other "Independents" caucus with them giving them 53 members of their "caucus".

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RE :”And I will cede that the way the Rats use power is much different than the Republicans but it must be really nice when you have most public media outlets watching your back for you.”

Most of the time but not all of the time.

watching Republicans operate since 2011 has not been fun. They walk into every trap and dont work together as a team.

I get the impression that they are finally learning now, given their student loan bill paid by Obama-care. That is how Dems fight.

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RE:”While essentially true, please remember they had 2 other “Independents” caucus with them giving them 53 members of their “caucus”.

Just looked it up and I WAS RIGHT, they had 49 Dems and 2 independents = 51. And Cheney made it a tie.

This is far from the 'clear majority' that EoL claims they had.