At our 25th college reunion in 2003, Grover Norquist — the brain and able spokesman for the radical right — and I, along with other classmates who had been in public or political life, participated in a lively panel discussion about politics. During his presentation, Norquist explained why he believed that there would be a permanent Republican majority in America.
One person interrupted, as I recall, and said, “C’mon, Grover, surely one day a Democrat will win the White House.”
Norquist immediately replied: “We will make it so that a Democrat cannot govern as a Democrat.”
Mission accomplished. But if Obama were only "more progressive" I'm sure the GOP (relentlessly dragging the country further to the right on a daily basis and blocking everything else that they don't approve of) would just give up, so it's really Obama's fault, right?
The GOP has a simple plan. Block everything, refuse to let Obama govern, let the country burn, blame Obama. And there's plenty of meatballs on the left who are more than happy to do Norquist's shiv work for him.
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