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Tully Mars · 01-20-2008, 05:57 AM

And how exactly are the Dems supposed to do much of anything with basically a 51-49 split and Bush's veto pen in the waiting?

The only thing the Dems could seriously do is shut down the governemnt. Something the GOP did for a while in the 90's. In the 90's we didn't have such a war going on with solders dying nearly everyday.

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Originally Posted by dc_dux

I guess you dont count:

* Restoring the Constitution Act (blocked by Republicans in the Senate)
* Habeas Corpus Restoration Act (blocked by Republicans in the Senate)
* Open Government Act of 2007 (Democratic bill to ease FOIA restrictions imposed by Bush, with enough Republican support to make it veto-proof)
* Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007 (first meaningful Congressional ethics and lobbyist reform bill in years)
* Reducing Over-Classification Act of 2007 (introduced by 14 Democratic committee chairs in the House in response to Bush classifying practically everthing)
* National Security Letters Reform Act of 2007 (introduced by Democrats to provide procedural protections for FBI use of NSLs in response to Bush's signing statement on Patriot Act that expanded FBI power to use NSLs contrary to Congressional intent)

IMO, an objective review and analysis of the Democrats first year in the majority would give them a little credit for trying to reign in the excesses of the Bush administration