<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>incredible- much more in the full article</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/01/1012636/-Unprecedented?via=siderec">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/01/1012636/-Unprecedented?via=siderec</a><div><br></div><div>""Congressional historians said Mr. Boehner's move was unprecedented." While the <em>New York Times</em> was referring to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/01/us/politics/01obama.html?partner=rss&emc=rss">Speaker John Boehner's refusal to grant</a> the President's request for a September 7 address to joint session of Congress, "unprecedented" is apt description for <a href="http://www.perrspectives.com/blog/archives/002010.htm">the stone wall of Republican obstructionism facing Barack Obama</a>
from the moment he took the oath of office. From the GOP's
record-setting use of the filibuster and its united front against
Obama's legislative agenda to blocking judicial nominees and its threats
to trigger a U.S. default, the Republican Party has broken new ground..."</div><div><br></div><div>".............Time after time, President Obama could count the votes he received
from Congressional Republicans on the fingers (usually the middle one)
of one hand. The expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance
Program (<a href="http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=1&vote=00031">S-CHIP</a>)
to four million more American kids earned the backing of a whopping
eight GOP Senators. (One of them, Arlen Specter, later became a
Democrat.) Badly needed <a href="http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/07/its-done-obama-to-sign-wall-street-reform.php">Wall Street reform</a> eventually overcame GOP filibusters to pass with the support of just three Republicans in the <a href="http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2010-413">House</a> and <a href="http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=s2010-208">Senate</a>, respectively. Last summer, it took 50 days for President Obama to get past Republican filibusters of <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/20/nation/la-na-jobless-20100721">extended unemployment benefits</a> and the <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/political-economy/2010/09/senate_approves_small_business.html">Small Business Jobs Act</a>. As for the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/23/AR2010092304578.html">DISCLOSE Act</a>,
legislation designed to limit the torrent of secret campaign cash
unleashed by the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, in September
Republican Senators prevented it from ever coming to a vote.</div><div><p>The one-way street that is bipartisanship in Washington was most
clearly on display during each party's attempts to pass tax cuts and
economic stimulus." </p></div></body></html>