It started the day Barrack Obama was elected President and before he actually took office.
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“…reporting on the Republican plot to obstruct President Obama before he even took office, including secret meetings led by House GOP whip Eric Cantor (in December 2008) and Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (in early January 2009) in which they laid out their daring (though cynical and political) no-honeymoon strategy of all-out resistance to a popular President-elect during an economic emergency. “If he was for it,” former Ohio Senator George Voinovich explained, “we had to be against it.” [1]
That’s right, the Republicans plan to win in the future was to make President Obama fail, and to do this they had to make America fail as well. Thus began the expansion of the “do very little Congress” into the “do nothing Congress”. Republicans would need a major collapse during President Obama’s tenure to prove…
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