# 32 Mitch McConnell: "Our Number 1 Priority is to Make Barack Obama a One-Term President." RPW: "Obama is still going to win big."

Mitch McConnell, minority leader of the Senate said that in 2009, shortly after Barack Obama became president.  Yet, Obama actually tried, time after time, to work with the Republicans in both houses, mostly unsuccessfully.  During these past four years, the Republicans in the Senate have filibustered, or threatened to filibuster, nearly every piece of legislation that would have improved job opportunities for working Americans.  (see the elephant blocking traffic in the picture below; thank you Denise for posting it)

Caption: "The Democrats only had a filibuster-proof majority for 24, repeat - 24, Congressional working days. Please let the myth die."

 

Now, during this election campaign, the Republicans are blaming Obama for high unemployment (despite the last nine months of unemployment declines), and for all the other ills that do or are perceived to haunt the country. 

McConnell's announcement was a horrible admission.  In addition to the fact that the Senate Republicans put his game plan into action by often blocking Senate action, it also led to Republicans opposing legislation that they had initially proposed!  And it sent--at the time--the wrong message to the country: rather than indicating that the GOP's primary priority was to help fix what was wrong with the country, they emphasized that they would try to create more havoc in the economy, and anywhere else they could, as long as they were able to blame Obama.

The Democrats have absolutely blown this part of the re-election campaign.  Mitch McConnell's statement should have been a feature of continuing Democrat campaign ads from the very beginning.  The voting public may indeed have a short memory: the Democrats should have kept McConnell's charge to his troops in the forefront of their publicity, so that the electorate would not forget Republicans' motives.

Oh, and one other point (thank you Denise and Laurel), this one about taxes:

 

 

I've included this now because I'm not planning on addressing this part of Romney's platform.  He frankly hasn't given enough specific information to conclude much more than the possible consequences. 

 

Obama is still going to win big.  You heard it here first.  If I'm wrong, you don't remember where you heard it.  Seriously, even the post-debate blip is beginning to recede.  It will continue to do so.  Enjoy, 'nighty-night, and don't let the poll bugs bite.'  /RPW