Bipartisanship My A**: Republican Senators pledged unified resistance to all Obama initiatives

by: Zappatero

Fri Aug 10, 2012 at 13:32:15 PM MST

From DailyKos...

Biden says that during the transition, he was warned not to expect any cooperation on many votes. "I spoke to seven different Republican Senators, who said, `Joe, I'm not going to be able to help you on anything,' he recalls. His informants said [Senate Minority Leader Mitch] McConnell had demanded unified resistance.

"The way it was characterized to me was: `For the next two years, we can't let you succeed in anything. That's our ticket to coming back,'" Biden says.

The vice president says he hasn't even told Obama who his sources were, but Bob Bennett of Utah and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania both confirmed they had conversations with Biden along these lines.

Grunwald goes on to cite former Sen. George Voinovich (a victim of Republican Tea Party extremism in Ohio):

"He wanted everyone to hold the fort. All he cared about was making sure Obama could never have a clean victory."

And there was the insider:

"People were pretty demoralized, and there were two totally opposite thoughts on how to approach the situation," a McConnell aide recalls. "One was, `we don't like the president, we ought to pop him early.' The other was, `he's really popular, we should work with him, because that's what people want us to do.' The boss's take was: Neither." McConnell realized that it would be much easier to fight Obama if Republicans first made a public show of wanting to work with him.

If they go through with this one-sided, Grover-Norquist-defined, Republican-take-all bipartisanship they are cowards and should resign from the Democratic Party immediately.