I would be very interested in hearing your rebuttal to this point. In what significant manner did they try to stand up to Obama? Didn't he spend 5 Trillion dollars?
Okay, but let's start off by setting the goalposts in the correct place. The argument to which I was responding was that there is no value in electing Republicans down-ticket because the GOP Congress "gave Obama everything he wanted." I mention that because it is almost a ridiculously low bar to meet, and I'm just the guy to meet a really low bar.
So, I listed some of the major things Obama wanted that Congress did not give him:
1) They did not confirm Garland. That likely saved both
Citizens United and
Heller. Those two issues alone are huge. It is also highly relevant because of the next two points:
2) Congress refused to modify the Clean Air Act as he requested, so he was forced to try to implement his global warming agenda via regulatory action/executive order. He was stopped by the courts.
3) They refused to pass his immigration bill, so he was forced to try to get legal status for millions of illegals via regulatory/executive order. Again, he was shot down by the courts. And, a rehearing on this by the Supreme Court was just denied. Had Garland been confirmed, the rehearing likely would have been granted, and Obama's executive actions would have been allowed to proceed. That would have been
game over on immigration.
4) They refused to pass amendments he wanted to the Affordable Care Act, and in fact passed legislation barring the use of federal funds to backstop insurance companies that were losing money in the exchanges. The result of those failed amendments and legislation has been to force ObamaCare into the death spiral.
Again, I want to emphasize that considering where the goalposts were set - "there is no value in electing Republicans" - pointing out times where they
failed to stop Obama doesn't advance the ball on the other side. Someone literally must show that they caved on
everything, which cannot be done.