Congressional Republicans Determined to Push Agenda Even Harder After Election Drubbing -- The Daily Beast

When Democrats suffered major losses in 2009 and 2010 at the hands of the "tea party" movement, then-President Barack Obama called it a "shellacking" and pledged to listen to Republicans' concerns about a plethora of concerns they had at the time. He dropped an agenda geared around stimulus spending for one centered on deficit reduction and, eventually, a modest entitlement reform proposal. ....
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