McConnell doesn’t need to be inspiring or jocular. Shouldn’t be, in fact. What he’s saying isn’t inspirational or funny. It’s grim and divisive. And that’s why it’s so important. In a city split between liars and idealists, McConnell is the rarest of all things: an honest cynic. Full Story »
Posted by Barry Grossheim
This is a good commentary. Senator McConnell will do anything that would cause President Obama to loose. That means the Republican leader has no concern about any issue.
This is an insightful but depressing opinion piece. I kept asking myself if Klein's analysis was over the top but concluded that it was a polite and objective assessment.
Here's an interesting -- and well-written -- perspective on Mitch McConnell's frank admission that the congressional Republicans' raison d'etre since the 2008 presidential election has been the destruction of the Obama presidency.
While I suppose one could appreciate McConnell's frank honesty (or miscue) when he spilled this can of beans, the fact that what he said is true and has been coming to pass looms in my mind as utterly cynical and inexcusable. The only thing that's worse is that the voters who put McConnell and the rest of them in office apparently view the destruction of a presidency as a goal worth pursuing. God help us if none of these august congressional Republican yahoos deviate from this destructive path.
This is amusing journalism, and would have been great in the Onion. However as serious journalism, it is a failure. The author must be the last person in the country who thinks that Obama ever intended to be "post-partisan". The last Congress was the most left-wing in decades, and Obama and the leadership ignored the Republicans in passing major legislation like the stimulus, Obamacare and Dodd-Frank. All three are far-left patronage laws, with little that is conservative in them, despite the author's claims. The author seems to know little about Washington politics, as he does not even mention the people who ran the Congress for Obama, like Sen. Reid and Speaker Pelosi. Now, there are people who ARE divisive, partisan and ... More »
This sentence shows how poor a writer the author is: "The opposition can have its cake and eat it, too."
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