right called out for political change in washington. democratic presidential barack obama began the battle to ensure every american was afforded health care. republican leaders were not in support of the president s efforts. our top political priority should be to deny president obama a second term. a period highlighted bipartisan politics. a movement that was spearheaded in part by obama s successor, donald j. trump. it was never more apparent that when republicans in the senate would not consider president obama s domination of merit garland following the death of justice scalia in 2016. we do not need a reckless president who believes she is above the law. yep, that s right. lock her up. of course things got really nasty during a hard fought presidential race between donald
president. i would be remiss not to mention mitch mcconnell in 2010 saying the whole goal of the party was to deny president obama a second term. seems like there s this refusal to get things done that goes back much further. i think there s a few points. obviously the politics of personal destruction began in the 90s. i think you can point to newt gingrich, the clinton impeachment. george w. bush on his way out, a lot of people on the left started calling him a facist. when president obama came in, that democratic majority in the house and senate kicked republicans to the curb and did everything on their own. the reaction to president obama in 2010. what a vicious cycle here as things keep getting worse and worse. i think this will only break when a coalition of lawmakers
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longest tenured g.o.p. leader ever. he understands the senate better than anybody else here. former senator trent lot had the job for five years. i think it was the toughest we are shipped out, political job in the city. mcconnell says he plays the long game. failed to repeal obamacare. in 2010 he took it for outlining a different priority. our top political priority over the next two years should be to deny president obama a second term. six years later when outgoing president barack obama merrick garland to the court, he declined to consider him. the american people need to weigh in and decide who s going to make this decision. democrats criticized him for making this decision. we are setting a dangerous precedent. mcconnell later helped confirmed neil gorsuch. he is reasonably able to control his people. that in itself is something to be credited with.
not true. our political priority in the next two years should be to deny president obama a second term. he thinks he can just win what he wants and go around congress. we don t have kings. i ask president obama not to divide us further by acting like an imperial president. and trump comes along and says birth certificate. he gave a birth certificate. whether or not that was a real certificate, because a lot of people question it i certainly question it. anyway, the gop threw up road blocks, and according to robert draper, on the first night of his inauguration, strategists got together and figured out a way to put the brakes on obama s agenda. they said, quote, the republicans had agreed on a way to show united and unyielding opposition to the president s