At a time of huge financial crisis and a fiscal threat to the security of the country, they refused to cooperate, being more interested in Obama failing than America succeeding. I think this was a conspiracy to commit treason.

want to be a part of tearing the country apart or not. Whether or not they choose "lying" over "trying."
Truth over fiction, compassion over corruption, fairness over favor, helpfulness over hatefulness, results over rhetoric, work over wealth, the people over politics. It's our choice and all choices have consequences.

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Said Axelrod, “If on inaugural night, leaders of the Republican Party are meeting to talk about how they could thwart the president, it belies the notion that they are waiting patiently by their phones for a call from the president to see if they could work together.”

There was certainly much more to Obama’s candidacy in 2008 than his appeal for the nation to transcend its partisan divisions. He promised to end the war in Iraq. He pledged to fix the country’s broken health-care system. And in the final weeks, he vowed urgently to find the tools to prevent another Great Depression. But more than anything, the aspiration to create a post-partisan politics gave a special lift to his candidacy and created outsize expectations for his presidency.

The call for a new politics shorn of bitterness and red-blue divisions had long been at the heart of Obama’s political persona. He wove that message into every important speech of the campaign, from his announcement in February 2007 all the way to his inauguration speech. By then, however, Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill were already at odds over an economic stimulus program. Republicans call the stimulus battle the original sin of the Obama presidency. White House officials mark it as the moment when hope and change collided with Republican intransigence.