Reply #161: The people do? Seriously, you've been here this long and you think the people control Congress?

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The way you get legislation passed through Congress as a president is you rally Congress. You work the members on the fringes, try to sway them, pressure them, bribe them, do what you need to get their vote. That's how Clinton got his progressive tax bill through Congress. That's how LBJ got Civil Rights passed when Congress knew it was cutting its own political throat to do it. That's how it works.

Has nothing to do with who controls Congress. No one controls Congress. Congress can't even control Congress. It has to do with who influences, who leads. That's why we elect a president. Otherwise it just wouldn't matter who the Hell was in office.