The official GOP handbook says, in Chapter One, page one: "If the negro in the White House wants it, we are against it."
Actually, the handbook is just a one-page flier that Speaker of the House John Boehner distributes each morning to all his Republican brethren while also doling out campaign checks from the tobacco industry. Besides the single, all-important rule it also features a Sudoku puzzle, the latest Jumble, and an inspirational mad-lib from David Koch to keep his conservative caucus busy while they wait for their concubines to delived their daily ration of meth-infused nipple cream.
Even if what the President wants means cleaner air, greater prosperity for all, or free kittens for vets then just forget about it. Automatic Conservative gainsaying has gotten so bad in Congress the past four years that the Prez almost couldn't lose by stumping for policies he's ordinarily against. Who knows? The assembled GOP might become so repulsed at the idea of voting for free machine guns for babies, legislation that was desired by an icky old black person, that they might just say "Screw it!" and proceed to pry that gun out of Charlton Heston's hands and chunk it in the river.
Yeah, I know. It sounds stupid but it's no dumber than the way Washington, D.C. works now.