Reply #9: Back in the day when I was in school, you know when folks did homework by candle light or the

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light from the fireplace in the old log cabin, ok I'm not that old. Anyhow we had American history and civics showed how the 3 branches of government worked as well as their limits of power. Believe it or not for 3 days I had a running argument here on DU about how Obama can not just declare something he wants and it becomes law and Reid had no veto proof majority for 2 years, he had 58 D's and 2 I's. The media is partly to blame for this because they ran non stop about the power of the president, it was his fault alone, as well as blaming Pelosi and Reid for things not passing in the congress yet neither of them could pass bills alone, it was like the person didn't understand that 3 people don't rule 2 branches of government he claimed that they should have made R's filibuster the way they did on the movie "Mr. Smith goes to Washington".