I remember Democrats controlling the house the first 2 years of Obama’s presidency. Wasn’t that the case?
Are you sure that they 'spent a lot of energy fighting among themselves'? Or are you just talking out of your ass about this because of something you 'heard'?
Notice almost (if not all) all of these top 50 accomplishments were in Obama's first 2 years (2009-2011), the only time he had to actually get things done because the Republicans obstruction from 2010 on throughout his entire presidency.1. Passed Health Care Reform: After five presidents over a century failed to create universal health insurance, signed the Affordable Care Act (2010). It will cover 32 million uninsured Americans beginning in 2014 and mandates a suite of experimental measures to cut health care cost growth, the number one cause of America’s long-term fiscal problems.
2. Passed the Stimulus: Signed $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in 2009 to spur economic growth amid greatest recession since the Great Depression. Weeks after stimulus went into effect, unemployment claims began to subside. Twelve months later, the private sector began producing more jobs than it was losing, and it has continued to do so for twenty-three straight months, creating a total of nearly 3.7 million new private-sector jobs.
3. Passed Wall Street Reform: Signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (2010) to re-regulate the financial sector after its practices caused the Great Recession. The new law tightens capital requirements on large banks and other financial institutions, requires derivatives to be sold on clearinghouses and exchanges, mandates that large banks provide “living wills” to avoid chaotic bankruptcies, limits their ability to trade with customers’ money for their own profit, and creates the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (now headed by Richard Cordray) to crack down on abusive lending products and companies.
4. Ended the War in Iraq: Ordered all U.S. military forces out of the country. Last troops left on December 18, 2011.
5. Began Drawdown of War in Afghanistan: From a peak of 101,000 troops in June 2011, U.S. forces are now down to 91,000, with 23,000 slated to leave by the end of summer 2012. According to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, the combat mission there will be over by next year.
6. Eliminated Osama bin laden: In 2011, ordered special forces raid of secret compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in which the terrorist leader was killed and a trove of al-Qaeda documents was discovered.
7. Turned Around U.S. Auto Industry: In 2009, injected $62 billion in federal money (on top of $13.4 billion in loans from the Bush administration) into ailing GM and Chrysler in return for equity stakes and agreements for massive restructuring. Since bottoming out in 2009, the auto industry has added more than 100,000 jobs. In 2011, the Big Three automakers all gained market share for the first time in two decades. The government expects to lose $16 billion of its investment, less if the price of the GM stock it still owns increases.
8. Recapitalized Banks: In the midst of financial crisis, approved controversial Treasury Department plan to lure private capital into the country’s largest banks via “stress tests” of their balance sheets and a public-private fund to buy their “toxic” assets. Got banks back on their feet at essentially zero cost to the government.
9. Repealed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”: Ended 1990s-era restriction and formalized new policy allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military for the first time.
10. Toppled Moammar Gaddafi: In March 2011, joined a coalition of European and Arab governments in military action, including air power and naval blockade, against Gaddafi regime to defend Libyan civilians and support rebel troops. Gaddafi’s forty-two-year rule ended when the dictator was overthrown and killed by rebels on October 20, 2011. No American lives were lost.
11. Told Mubarak to Go: On February 1, 2011, publicly called on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to accept reform or step down, thus weakening the dictator’s position and putting America on the right side of the Arab Spring. Mubarak ended thirty-year rule when overthrown on February 11.
12. Reversed Bush Torture Policies: Two days after taking office, nullified Bush-era rulings that had allowed detainees in U.S. custody to undergo certain “enhanced” interrogation techniques considered inhumane under the Geneva Conventions. Also released the secret Bush legal rulings supporting the use of these techniques.
13. Improved America’s Image Abroad: With new policies, diplomacy, and rhetoric, reversed a sharp decline in world opinion toward the U.S. (and the corresponding loss of “soft power”) during the Bush years. From 2008 to 2011, favorable opinion toward the United States rose in ten of fifteen countries surveyed by the Pew Global Attitudes Project, with an average increase of 26 percent.
14. Kicked Banks Out of Federal Student Loan Program, Expanded Pell Grant Spending: As part of the 2010 health care reform bill, signed measure ending the wasteful decades-old practice of subsidizing banks to provide college loans. Starting July 2010 all students began getting their federal student loans directly from the federal government. Treasury will save $67 billion over ten years, $36 billion of which will go to expanding Pell Grants to lower-income students.
15. Created Race to the Top: With funds from stimulus, started $4.35 billion program of competitive grants to encourage and reward states for education reform.
16. Boosted Fuel Efficiency Standards: Released new fuel efficiency standards in 2011 that will nearly double the fuel economy for cars and trucks by 2025.
17. Coordinated International Response to Financial Crisis: To keep world economy out of recession in 2009 and 2010, helped secure from G-20 nations more than $500 billion for the IMF to provide lines of credit and other support to emerging market countries, which kept them liquid and avoided crises with their currencies.
Perhaps my memory is failing me but I recall about 40 Democrats in the house voting against the ACA. I also recall Obama’s frustration with having to make concessions to appease Democrats in the house.
I wished Obama could have been president for life.
He will lose this coming election, those cards are already dealt.
at times i seriously don't get where these questions come from. there are all sorts of rules and regs on this already right down to how many feet you can stand from the door, what you can wear etc. 'refusing to rule out' a preposterous question infuriates me.If tRUmp doesn't have enough proud boys will he try to use the military?
Trump's defense secretary refuses to rule out manning the polls with active duty troops
On Tuesday, The New York Times reported" that Defense Secretary Mark Esper refused to explicitly rule out sending active troops to guard the polls in U.S. cities."Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper declined to rule out sending active-duty military personnel to the polls on Election Day, amid an...www.rawstory.com
so did i.
Fuck peace with the Republicans.
it already has; shit flows downhill- nary a Cory Gardner ad in sight 3 weeks away from election literally the biggest race here. Sheldon Adelson asked where was the Heroes Act for the laid off in his state and Trumpy lit into him; bit the hand that fed him.
not down here with the Co Springs stations. about equal of gardner/hickenlooper
The beautiful thing is Biden won't have to deal with Trump at all (outside of putting out the fires Trump has left to burn in our nation), all he needs to do is appoint competent people and sign what parts of Biden's agenda that the Democratic party put on his desk to sign while reaching out to all of our foreign allies strengthening our international relationships.
Recent senate Co. polls, Donald's shit show can't be helping the GOP.
| DATES | POLLSTER | SAMPLE | RESULT | NET RESULT | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. Senate | Colo. | OCT 2-11, 2020 | B/C Morning Consult | 837 | LV | Hickenlooper | 50% | 40% | Gardner | Hickenlooper | +10 | ||
| U.S. Senate | Colo. | SEP 8-17, 2020 | B/C Morning Consult | 599 | LV | Hickenlooper | 46% | 44% | Gardner | Hickenlooper | +2 |
