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Vital than that. 51% are saying i d rather see the president fail. i mean, it is amazing to me. that s what happened here the last two years. mitch mcconnell the republican leader has said my number one priority is to make barack obama a one-term president and he goes to work every day to ensure that happens by stopping passage in the united states senate by use of that procedure we call the filibuster where you need a super majority of the senate to pass anything, not the simple majority we used to learn growing up that 50 plus one is a majority. here in the senate he has made it 60, and so the result of that is very little gets passed here, and that s a way of effectuating that barack obama be a one-term president. the problem is you re not hurting barack obama. you re hurting the country and that s what s at stake, and that s why we should pass this bill to put teachers and fire fighters back to work. hold the presses. eric cantor is going to make a major speech on friday and al ....