Our system has never been bipartisan. It's a nice Dream, Mr. President, but I voted for the guy I thought could BEAT Republicans in an election and even more importantly AFTER the election.
I think the first couple weeks have taught my President that you can take a Republican to as many dinners as you want, and watch the Super Bowl with him and all that, and he will still do everything he can to whack you. The modern GOP is not a political party, it is a crime syndicate. There has been no fair dealing with Republicans since they purged the moderates from their ranks a decade or more ago. All they have left are their Taliban wing, who are waging an insurgency against the choice the American people made in November.
These guys will not deal straight. They will do everything they can to give us national failure economically and internationally. Rush Limbaugh spoke for all of them when he said he wanted Obama to fail. Mr. President, the GOP plan is to morph you into the same caricature they have made of Jimmy Carter. They will march onto the news shows for four years and hammer away at that image. For the good of the country and your presidency, you must defeat them in the same way that you defeated your opponents in Illinois.
Marginalize them, ridicule them, make them so angry that they do and say things that drive them deeper into the wilderness. For the good of the nation, we need you to forget bipartisanship. The only way for you to fix our country is to neutralize the Republican party. I voted for you because I think you have the political talent and the nerve to do it.
I know that it would be nice to have an opposition party that was not made up of religious and economic neanderthals, but that is not what we have. Those kind of GOPers have long been drummed out of the party. What we have now are the worst of the worst that the Grey Old Patriarchs have ever had to offer. You cannot work with them, but only defeat them.