President Obama is beginning to look like a man who lost his mind:
“The American people did not vote for gridlock,” said Obama, delivering a clipped, sober report on the meeting he insisted will be the first in a series of bipartisan consultations.
Why is the obvious so elusive to this man?
The American people watched for two years. They watched President Obama keep George W. Bush's Defense Department in place. They saw President Obama spending month after month seeking Republican votes on anything. He even adopted their ideas when they told him they wouldn't vote for their own ideas. They watched him accused of killing Grandma with death panels and numerous other lies. They even voted against the troops! The GOP did not bother to offer any solution to a single problem. They had one mission: fight Obama no matter what.
The American people saw all this and voted Republican.
How could any serious rational person conclude the public wants anything but gridlock? Show me the congressman or senator who won a race touting "bipartisan cooperation" as a platform.
The GOP seems to have gotten the message:
Senate Republicans intend to block action on virtually all Democratic-backed legislation unrelated to tax cuts and government spending in the current postelection session of Congress, officials said Tuesday, adding that the leadership has quietly collected signatures on a letter pledging to carry out the strategy.
"Despite what some Democrats in Congress have suggested, voters did not signal they wanted more cooperation on the Democrats' big-government policies that most Americans oppose," McConnell and incoming House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, wrote in an op-ed article published in the Washington Post.
Meanwhile, President grovelling beaten lump Obama still believes in unicorns:
Continuing the conciliatory tone he has taken since Election Day, Obama told the lawmakers that he needed to do more to reduce the partisan tone in Washington, press secretary Robert Gibbs said later. The president said he plans to hold additional talks in Washington and at Camp David with lawmakers of both parties.
"The president acknowledged he needed to do better," Gibbs said.
Pathetic.