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I didn't say the results were the same. But when Obama was first in office, the Dems held enough seats in Congress as a whole to have passed Obamacare regardless of what GOP members voted. The fact that they didn't try until after enough seats had turned over that they required some GOP support, say that their goal was not passing Obamacare, but to highlight the overall GOP opposition to it and claim them as obstructionists. Of course, what they kept quiet about was all the compromises the GOP kept putting up, including passing many aspects of Obamacare as separate bills.Didn't the ACA pass in 2009? The Dems still held the majority then.
Today, Trump and the GOP are doing pretty much the same thing. They could have had this wall funding already, but they waited until enough seats had turned over to require some Dem support. And now they are calling the Dems the obstructionists, while conveniently ignoring all the compromises Dems have offered towards border security.
The two parties are really not all the different.
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