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In reply to the discussion: 100 Reasons Why President Obama Is NOT The Same As President Bush [View all]sheshe2
(97,689 posts)Thanks geek tragedy...they can't handle the truth.
When I first came into office, the head of the Senate Republicans said, my number one priority is making sure president Obamas a one-term president. Now, after the election, either he will have succeeded in that goal or he will have failed at that goal.
President Obama, interview on CBS 60 Minutes, recorded on Sept. 12, 2012, and aired on Sept. 23
It was no surprise, because the senator from Kentucky, who just spoke, announced at the beginning, four years ago, exactly what his strategy would be. He said, his number-one goal was to make sure that Barack Obama was a one-term president.
Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), on the Senate floor, Sept. 21, 2012
Ed Rendell, who has criticized the president (objecting, for example, to the Obama campaign's attack on private equity), also argues that Obama has been constrained by an unprecedented obduracy in his Republican opposition. I can't ever recall a newly elected president being faced with the leader of the other party's caucus saying Our No. 1 priority is to make this president a one-term president, says Rendell, citing the remark made by Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, that exemplified the fierce partisanship that has attended Obama's tenure. That McConnell would say that in the first nine months of Barack Obama's tenure is absolutely stunning, disgraceful, disgusting you name the term.
Peter J. Boyer, writing in Newsweek, Sept. 10, 2012
Clearly, a theme has emerged among Democrats: Republicans were so determined to thwart President Obamas agenda that the Senate Minority leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, even announced from day one that he was determined to make Obama a one-term president.
The timing of McConnells statement obviously makes a difference. In the Democratic narrative, the top GOP senator signaled early on he had no intention of cooperating with the new president
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