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  • November 11, 2016 at 10:51 am #57690
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    So we have had 8 years of Bill Clinton,
    8 years of GW, 8 years of Obama — did any of them have what Trump will have?

    When’s the last time one of the Despicable-Parties had control of all three
    branches of Power?

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    November 11, 2016 at 10:54 am #57693
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    link:http://ritholtz.com/2016/11/miss-me-no/
    Last Time GOP Controlled All 3 Branches of Government

    November 9, 2016 6:00am by Barry Ritholtz

    Here is a reminder about the last time this happened, when Republicans ran all 3 branches of the federal government:

    “When George W. Bush became president in 2001, it marked the first time in 70 years that conservative Republicans controlled all three branches of government. By the time Bush left office, we were all reminded why. The financial crisis and resulting global economic meltdown Bush left us with were eerily reminiscent of the Great Depression, but there was also 9/11, the Iraq War and Katrina—a multifaceted record of spectacular failure so stunning that it should have disqualified conservative Republicans from holding power for at least another seven decades. Yet, the Democrats’ political response to the many messes Bush left behind has been so spectacularly inept that they’ve not only lost both houses of Congress, they’ve also lost more state legislative seats than any time since before the Great Recession.”
    SALON

    November 11, 2016 at 11:16 am #57706
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    wv wrote:

    So we have had 8 years of Bill Clinton,
    8 years of GW, 8 years of Obama — did any of them have what Trump will have?

    When’s the last time one of the Despicable-Parties had control of all three
    branches of Power?

    w
    v

    I think this is unusual in this way, too:

    Most of the time, the party holding the White House loses the mid-terms and control of Congress swings to the other side. So then might get a Dem prez, and a GOP Congress. This time, primarily because the Dem coalition doesn’t show up for those mid-terms, the GOP will likely keep Congress and may well add to their numbers. They have total control now, and they’re likely going to keep it for eight more years.

    Another dynamic:

    Beginning roughly with the Gingrich era in the 1990s, the GOP tends to be stridently in opposition to the Dem president, blocking everything they try to do, regardless of whether it’s decent policy or not. And with Obama, they tried to block everything, including hearings for SCOTUS noms, which is unprecedented.

    The Dems, OTOH, tend to compromise, triangulate, and want to appear as “the adult in the room.” They won’t try to block everything Trump does. They’ll likely cave on most things.

    Obviously, this favors the GOP and their agenda. They’re likely to get 99% of it passed. I haven’t dug into the percentages, but I’m guessing Obama got less than 10% of his through.

    November 11, 2016 at 12:09 pm #57730
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    Billy_T wrote:

    Obviously, this favors the GOP and their agenda. They’re likely to get 99% of it passed. I haven’t dug into the percentages, but I’m guessing Obama got less than 10% of his through.

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    Well, if this doesn’t change the Dem Party, nothing will.

    I’m guessing nothing will, btw. But there is always a small ‘hope’.

    On with our lives,
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