Reply #16: It's an infuriating lost opportunity

[Lydia Leftcoast]

Imagine what the Republicans would have done with majorities like that plus the White House.

We'd be at full-blown fascism by now, and the most of the Dems would have voted for, say, the imposition of martial law because "it was going to pass anyway." (You think that I'm exaggerating? That's the despicable excuse that most of the DLC apologists on this board gave about the IWR, the Patriot Act, the bankruptcy bill, and every other nasty bit of legislation that the Republicans passed with the full or partial complicity of the Dems. Those craven, corrupt cowards couldn't even see their way to making a statement of protest.)

You tell me that the Republicanites wouldn't have actually had a field day with this type of majority, cheered on by the DLC.