Why did Mitch McConnell say the GOP goal was to "deny" President Obama a second term?

The Republicans have owned the White House so much in recent decades that they've come to see it as THEIR house. When a Democrat gets elected president, they feel a great injustice has been done, that they have been robbed of their property. Their strategy is to go into a 4-year-long (or 8 year long) temper tantrum.

They refuse to cooperate with a Democratic president, even for things they want themselves, because that only hands him a victory and validates his presidency. Instead they just reflexively oppose anything he says or does or wants. This is nothing new.

They treated Clinton the same way. And Carter. They treated them both as illegitimate presidents.

They know that when a Democrat is president, if anything good is achieved through bipartisan cooperation, the president gets most of the credit. Like Clinton, I thought Obama gave too much away to the Repubs in his attempt to get the economy moving, reduce deficits, etc. But more recently I think he's gotten a clue. Now his strategy is to be the populist, to propose ideas that are very popular with the American People, and watch the Republicans in Congress bluster posture and shoot them down.

Like his tax cut for the middle class, or the extension of unemployment benefits. Let the Republicans slit their own throats.

Maybe Republicans can't deny Obama a second term as President, but The American People can,and will on November 6, 2012. NOBAMA in 2012!

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