After their crushing defeat in 2008, the GOP leadership met to discuss where they went from there. The question posed was “What is the proper role of a minority party?” The correct answer was “To help the American people at a time of crisis,” but that clearly never occurred to Mitch McConnell. Instead, the response was to obstruct the Obama Administration in every possible way in the hope of discrediting activist government and becoming the majority party.
The GOP consistently engaged in kamikaze tactics to prove that Obama and the Democrats couldn’t get anything done. While these tactics endangered the nation and richly deserved the scorn they received from the establishment, they ultimately succeeded; Republicans control the presidency and both houses of Congress today. The ultimate outcome, however, was not exactly what they expected.
Paralysis during the Obama Administration was supposed to lead to a GOP president determined to shrink the size of government. Instead, it created the demand for a man on horseback, who is currently being thwarted by the same people who threw bombs during the Obama years. How ’bout them apples!