"IF PRESIDENT OBAMA WAS FOR IT, THE GOP HAD TO BE AGAINST IT"

That title, referring to Mark Thoma’s blog post in the August 10, 2012 online Economist, sums up the Republicans’ attitude towards the president.

As it was widely reported, the Republicans took a definite position – to obstruct, to malign, to antagonize, to be uncooperative and uncompromising, and to be recalcitrant and every other adjective anyone can drum up to describe their intense hatred for the president. It was palpable and always on display.

Republicans came out of the gate yelling fail! fail, fail! to the president. They never looked back. They never had any intention of helping the common man. Their only hope and task was to make President Obama a one-term president, for whatever reason they alone can tell.