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Republicans don’t seem to understand cause and effect
The lame duck Republican majority is doing everything they can to cause a backlash
Mitch McConnell, he of the “Merrick Garland will never get a vote,” raised a few eyebrows when he wrote in an OpEd for that unbiased publication FoxNews.com “[w]ill Dems work with us, or simply put partisan politics ahead of the country?”
This, of course, is the man who famously stated after Barack Obama was elected that “[t]he single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.” We all know how well that worked out for him. Nevertheless, his unbridled partisanship and unparalleled obstructionism made any efforts of Obama at reducing polarization in Washington futile.
And try he did. Obama seemed to have two fundamental beliefs when he came to the Presidency. First, he believed that good government equals good politics. Here I agree with him, as did his political mentors the Daley family of Chicago. If people are doing well and feel that the economy is on the right track, they generally re-elect whoever is in charge.
His second belief, however, was not shared by me nor by the Daleys. He believed he could reduce negativity through honest conversation and open discussion of the issues. This is an…
