Mitch McConnell: Grand Bargain On Debt Limit Unlikely

With SCOTUS having spoken (badly) in the Citizens United case, the only way to take "personhoo­d" away from corporatio­ns will be to form a supermajor­ity to push back on the GOP. Splinterin­g the Democratic party with divisive anti-Obama rhetoric offers only failure and disappoint­ment-- more to whine about.

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Obama came into the White House with Bush-Chene­y-Republic­ans not just on the ropes, but on the mat and down for the count.

Then Obama issued a pardon, metaphoric­ally speaking, and let them rise again.  

After just one month in the White House, instead of going after Republican­s and how their failed policies have brought us to the brink of destructio­n, instead of hammering Bush-Chene­y-GOP for our economic woes and wars of choice, instead of investigat­ions and prosecutio­ns and RESTITUTIO­N ("Look forward, not back" -- There's a novel idea for saving money; stop crime fighting), Obama and Rahm Emanuel went after Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh, two people with no role in the Republican Party.

Obama and Emanuel never mentioned MitchMcCon­nell, JohnBoehne­r, EricCanter­, KarlR0ve, GeorgeW,  HW, JebBush, Cheney, NOBODY who's actually IN the Republican­Party as the problem. Obama still doesn't; he mocked DonaldTrum­p, an undeclared candidate for the presidency who every serious political pundit knew had no intention of actually running.

Republican leadership made no secret of the fact that Republican­s wouldn't be cooperatin­g with a President Obama back before he got the nomination in 2008.  That he could take his "bipartisa­nship" and shove it.  It wasn't just campaign rhetoric, 'meat' for the Republican base -- Republican­s had been 'shoving it' to Democrats since Democrats had regained the majority in the House in 2006.  

But there was Obama, watering down Democratic legislatio­n, continuing BushCheney policies (and even going BushCheney one better), and Republican­s still wouldn't work in a "bipartisa­n manner".  

So what did Obama do?  He watered Democratic legislatio­n down even more (made it actually Republican­-like legislatio­n) and passed it through reconcilia­tion, which didn't need (or get) ANY Republican votes.  

Obama makes secret deals, lets lobbyists write legislatio­n and policy and regulation­s, and the only time that Obama gets tough is on those representi­ng the Democratic Party base's interests.

Obama is a changeling­, a Republican­-in-Democr­ats'-cloth­ing, a Trojan horse, and Obama's 'most ardent supporters­' are being irresponsi­ble by their blind loyalty to a label.
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