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In no way excusing bush, but the following administration had House, Senate, and Supreme court majorities and didn’t roll it back.
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~~They had two years with a bare minimum majority, during which his top priority was pushing through the ACA while he could.~~
EDIT: My memory is worth less than shit anymore, so I need to learn to stop commenting on political posts (hah!). Responses below are right & I'm inadvertently guilty of what I said I hate below - at least I'm not doing it deliberately, I guess. /EDIT
I hate when people selectively ignore important aspects of the big picture.
No congressional intervention would have been needed to stop drone striking poor brown people in huts, but Obama massively expanded that. Let's not pretend that the Patriot Act made Obama beholden to continue Bush's misuse of presidential war powers. Obama did plenty of good, but he also did plenty to advanced the powers of the Executive.
Two years with a shaky supermajority. And most of that time wasn't hearty congressional debate, it was just trying to convince Lieberman. That's not a situation where you simply can't do anything else.