White House Chief Counsel, Tom Hagen, cleared his throat.
“I’m sorry, gentlemen,” he said with another cough. “What did you say?”
House Speaker John Boehner, stood from the table where the top Republicans had come to meet with the President and his staff Tuesday afternoon. He spoke emphatically, coffee muddled spittle flying.
“Now you listen to me, you smooth talking son of a bitch! Let me lay it on the line for you and your boss. Obama will never get that second term! I don’t care how many federal pay freezes and pleas for bipartisanship come out of the woodwork! Obama never gets the economy running again. It’d be perfect for him; it’ll make him a big star. And we’re gonna run him out of the business, and let me tell you why. Obama is trying to ruin one of the GOP’s most valuable franchises. For eight years we had tax cuts for the top 2%, we had the Democrats in our back pockets, we could start a war without a by your leave! We spent trillions of dollars! And let me be even more frank, just to show you I’m not a hard hearted man, and it’s not all dollars and cents. The American people; they were young, they were innocent. They were the greatest piece of ass I ever had, and I’ve had ‘em all over the world! And along comes Obama, with his olive oil…”
Alright, so that didn’t happen. Not exactly.
What is happening is that the GOP is hell bent on keeping this economy in the dumps, or worse, for as long as possible in the pursuit of their one true goal, as stated by Mitch McConnell, “The single most important goal we want to achieve is to make Obama a one-term president”. While they may throw a Christmas bone out in the form of extended unemployment benefits (which two weeks ago they fought against tooth and nail), they remain twisted and hell bent on renewing the tax cuts for those who make over $250,000, look forward with salivating maws at the approaching spring’s potential government shutdown, sucking the life’s blood out of the new health care bill, or vehemently objecting to the Feds proposal to buying $600 billion in government bonds (which, while it will lower the dollar, will improve the sale of American goods abroad, providing jobs on our shores meantime). All in the service of making Obama look no better than a Herbert Hoover come 2012, at which point they trust their work will be sufficient to elect even a Palin on their ticket. More likely, a Romney. But, either way, it would be important to note, if they are successful, you can bet the GOP will start using these very tactics to revive an economy they seek to starve solely for their hunger for power. It’s desperate and ugly. I don’t wish for McConnell to awake with Khartoum’s head bloody in his bed, but it’s time now for Obama to sound the wake up call and fight before the new Congress comes to session in January.
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