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Congress Runs the Country: The Budget Spending Drafts Bills. Dems have had the Majority in Congress since 2006?

Fact!

So What is the Basis of their Complaints Against Bush the last Two Years of his Presidency, When Dems Controlled What Bush Could and Couldn't Spend money on-including deficit spending, the Iraq surge, and Katrina, were all Controlled by democrats in Congress?

There is no Foundation in Fact--so why do they blame Bush for what the Democrats in Congress Did from 2006-to date?

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The 2006 United States midterm elections were held on Tuesday, November 7, 2006. All United States House of Representatives seats and one third of the United States Senate seats were contested in this election, as well as 36 state governorships, many state legislatures, four territorial legislatures and many state and local races. The election resulted in a sweeping victory for the Democratic Party which captured the House of Representatives, the Senate, and a majority of governorships and state legislatures from the Republican Party. Turnout was very high in the election. In some states it was reported it neared levels of turnout normally expected in a presidential election.

The victory of the Democratic Party in the 2006 Congressional elections was a major milestone for an additional reason: it saw the election of the first woman to serve as the Speaker of the House. Nancy Pelosi, the leader of the Democrats in the House of Representatives, became the highest-ranking woman in the history of the government of the United States upon her election as Speaker in January 2007. In the United States, the Speaker is not only the presiding officer and leader of the majority party, the Speaker also directly follows the Vice President of the United States in the line of succession to the presidency. It was also the first election in U.S. history in which the losses for one side were so lopsided that the victorious party did not lose a single incumbent or open seat in Congress or governor's mansion.

Reasons for the Democratic party takeover include the decline of the public image of George W. Bush, the dissatisfaction of the handling of both Hurricane Katrina and the War in Iraq, Bush's legislative defeat regarding Social Security Reform, and the culture of corruption, which were the series of scandals in 2006 involving Republican politicians

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  • Golfer
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    The left are thinking elitist and most have never accomplished anything in their lives, so for them to admit to mistakes is never going to happen.

    It was a republican congress who helped Clinton into a very prosperous time and a democratic congress that led to a rescission that was in place when Bush took over the white house. Bush didn't blame anyone he just went to work to clean up their mess. It was working until 9-11.

    This is a real wake up call for freedom loving Americans never ever have a Liberal Senate, House and president because they will spend this country into the next century.

    And that is exactly what is happening this every day. We are witnessing the fall of America. Hopefully the American people will vote back into office responsible people who believe in "WE the PEOPLE" not we the party comrade Obama.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    Obama became a Senator in 2006. Obama is between the motives of this financial disaster. Obama is mendacity whilst he blames Bush for the financial issues. Bush is to blame for many of issues, yet Obama isn't something yet an Anti-American elitist Marxist Despot and that i contemplate whether he relatively does know what reality is. Obama tells the reality basically via accident.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    So what will they say when Congress is a majority of Conservatives?

    They never answer a question directly.

  • 1 decade ago

    And what was Congress appove rate lower then Bush was.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Fact: The majority was minute meaning the GWB had the power of the Veto.

    Thus you are implying that GWB was a very weak President.

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