Not ironic at all, it's a common occurrence in mid-terms for the party opposing the president to do better. You seem to be calling holding a majority in the Ho

Not ironic at all, it's a common occurrence in mid-terms for the party opposing the president to do better. You seem to be calling holding a majority in the House and Senate a "super majority," that's not what a super majority is. Generally in the U.S. federal government a supermajority requires 2/3rds in the respective body (e.g. a party holding 67 seats in the Senate would have a supermajority there) [0]. Senate rules also make 60 seats a magic number to reach on many votes but one party hasn't held that many seats since 1979. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermajority#Federal_government https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermajority#Federal_governme... [1] http://www.senate.gov/history/partydiv.htm http://www.senate.gov/history/partydiv.htm