Obama scores the worst legislative record in History.....

Another first for BO peep. More validation that BO peep will go down in History as one of the Worst US Presidents we ever had. With his legacy being reduced to a little wad of paper being thrown into the wastebasket. Its Poetic Justice.



Signed less bills into law than one-term Carter.


President Obama oversaw the deepest legislative malaise in modern political history, according to the Washington Times Legislative Index, which captures his struggles to find ways to work with a Congress that ranged from lukewarm to openly hostile toward him.


Over the course of his eight years, he has signed just 1,227 bills into law — less, even, than one-term Presidents Carter and George H.W. Bush. Digging deeper into the numbers, Congress spent less time in session, handled less business on the chamber floors and generally sputtered for much of Mr. Obama’s tenure, according to The Times’ index.


“The president was never good at reaching across the aisle. So when the composition of Congress changed relative to what it was in his first two years, he wasn’t able to accommodate that very well,” said Andrew Busch, a presidential scholar at Claremont McKenna College in California. “He never accustomed himself to operating in a system where he was not the sole player.”.....snip~

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jan/17/president-obama-scores-poorly-working-congress-leg/

 

Congress spent less time in session, handled less business on the chamber floors and generally sputtered for much of Mr. Obama’s tenurE

 

I don't see a problem. Since when has quantity of laws been more important than quality of the laws?

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A bad leader always places the blame for their failures on forces beyond their control. President Obama is no exception

 

We are supposed to have a representative government. The first 2 years of the Obama presidency saw liberal utopia with Democrat control in both branches.

The electorate saw the error in that and put the GOP into the house majority. The electorate then saw what the Democrat Senate was doing and put the GOP as the majority there. Despite that, it was apparent that a Democrat POTUS was blocking the will of the people and the electorate just solved that. The fact that Obama signed less legislation is the result of his not doing the will of the people and we fixed that.

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Correct, and the statute of limitations on blaming Bush finally expires at noon Eastern on Friday

 

Think again.
In the "do-nothing Senate," there are 352 House bills "sitting on Harry Reid’s desk awaiting action," including 55 introduced by Democrats.
— Lynn Jenkins on Tuesday, July 29th, 2014 in a press conference


https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...ds-reign-of-paralysis/?utm_term=.c9c08297cd15
The Senate has not voted on jobs bills sent by the House, any “fix” for Obamacare or a domestic energy development bill. The Senate will not take up a real vote on the Keystone XL pipeline. It will not take up Iran sanctions. It did pass Veterans Affairs legislation and Iron Dome funding, not exactly difficult votes. Other than that, not much of consequence has gone on in the Senate, but not because of Republican objections. The GOP would love to take up many of these subjects, debate them and offer amendments; it is Reid who either won’t take up meaty issues or won’t allow any minority amendments, a practice he has taken further than any modern Senate leader. Speaking to the press on Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said succinctly: “Well, if you look at the last six years, the president and his people, I think, believed they got just about everything they wanted legislatively the first two years.”

 

Already another thread going.

http://www.politicalforum.com/curre...-scores-worst-legislative-record-history.html

And as to the quote above, most of your fellow Americans disagree with you.

Let me repeat that. Most of your fellow Americans disagree with you.

Obama is leaving office with high approval ratings (right up there with Clinton and Reagan, when they left office) and 65% of Americans consider his presidency to be a success.
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/18/politics/obama-approval-rating-cnn-orc-poll/index.html

 

Did you really want to go there.....as they already pointed out where the reality stands.



“The president was never good at reaching across the aisle. So when the composition of Congress changed relative to what it was in his first two years, he wasn’t able to accommodate that very well,” said Andrew Busch, a presidential scholar at Claremont McKenna College in California. “He never accustomed himself to operating in a system where he was not the sole player.”

It’s all the more stunning for Mr. Obama having emerged from the legislature himself, having served first in the Illinois Statehouse and then in the U.S. Senate, where he spent two years in a Republican-controlled Congress and two years in a Democrat-run Congress.


He was the first president since John F. Kennedy to make the leap directly from Capitol Hill to the White House, but he took a mostly hands-off approach, leaving his former colleagues on their own to hash out the details of bills......snip~ Same link.



Now what excuse did you want to try?

 

If most Americans disagree how is it the Obama machine lost over a thousand govt Dem seat across the country? I think those 60% just think O is a nice guy and a bad golfer.

 

Popularity don't mean much when the MS Media has done all they can to keep that approval rating up. Note the majority of Americans that thought the country wasn't headed in the Right direction thru his whole second term. Then decided they want no more of that Demo Policy, knowing Hillary would amount to nothing but a 3rd term of the Peep.

 

let's be brutally honest shall we, to not "approve" of Obama makes one a racist

The true test of whether or not his POLICIES were supported is by looking at state houses, governors mansions, the US House and Senate and now the WH

I hope you find comfort in his popularity poll but starting Friday at noon, the failed social experiment will end and we can get to rebuilding this nation

 

The article in the OP is a bad leader? We will keep that in mind for the next 4 years lol

 

That's right. They've been sitting in there living high on the hog and pushing everything aside as if it's all fun and games. And they point the finger at us and claim we're the ones doing this. Anyone surprised?

 

He's been great for the republican party.

 

Maybe...just maybe...it was because the legislature was stymied by the filibuster and less legislation went to his desk

 

Probably the same 1,000 people that were polled on Trump's approval rating. Not buying it. Take your dookie ass approval ratings and throw em over the cliff with the debt Obama accrued.

 

no, they knew that none of that legislation stood a chance because of the threat of a filibuster.

The right seems to pass that over that they have used it so much that now they just have to threaten it and legislation will sit. In typical republican fashion they break the process, and then tell you the "government doesn't work". Well of course it doesn't work, they purposely broke it !

 

Isn't it amazing how everyone hates his policies, yet miraculously he gets such a high approval rating? Sounds like this can be credited to people saying they like him so they're not viewed as racist. Overall, his plan worked. The country is divided and racial tensions are at 35 to 40 year highs.

 

I think it came down to entrenchment on both sides, and an unwillingness to compromise (a word that become very dirty to a great many people on both sides, and still is right now)

The Republicans saw the Dems as unwilling to budge on anything they did, so they filibustered everything they possibly could.

The Dems saw the Republican ammendments as nothing more then attempts to kill most of their legislative achievements, or undercut them with poision pills.

That said, with regards to Obama, I think people forget that for the first couple of years of his Presidency, he continually tried to reach across the isle, to the point where his own party and supporters were getting pretty cheesed off about it.

 

No, President Obama is a bad leader, but then you already know the man lacks basic leadership skills. Well maybe you don't, the emotional attachment many of Obama's followers have toward him will not fade for some time. After that emotional connection wanes they might be able to be a little more honest with themselves.

 

Good point. Obama did more damage with one law - ObamaCare - than he did with the rest of the laws he passed.

As far as I'm concerned, the less Washington does the better. If the nomenklatura and apparatchiks in Washington stuck to keeping the basic functions of the federal government running smoothly instead of incessantly expanding the size, power and expense of the Federal Leviathan I would be perfectly happy.

 

The new president is such a great leader he can't even get democrats to attend his inaugural. But he has got lots of protestors to come lol

 

Polls done by the same people who brought us "Hillary by a landslide".

 

Well when you have most of the leftness doing all they can to avoid scoring BO for his own faults. Then you get what we are seeing. Any excuse other than BO taking the blame for his own faults.


“The president was never good at reaching across the aisle. So when the composition of Congress changed relative to what it was in his first two years, he wasn’t able to accommodate that very well,” said Andrew Busch, a presidential scholar at Claremont McKenna College in California. “He never accustomed himself to operating in a system where he was not the sole player.”.....snip~ same link.

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Oh, show us a link that ALL Democrats aren't showing up, then tell us why Hillary and Bilbo is attending.

 

Not all democrats are staging away, just more than ever before.

 

I like Obama as a person, but he was a (*)(*)(*)(*) president.

So there's your approval rating. Lol