A news by yahoofreeshop:Fall-off-your-chair political surprise No. 1: The Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky does not want President Obama to win a second term in office......
“The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a ne-term president,” Mr. McConnell said in an interview with National Journal.
Fall-off-your-chair political surprise No. 2: The Obama White House has reacted with indignation, and the press secretary, Robert Gibbs said that elected officials should focus on policy, not politics.......
“Members of the Senate are elected and hired by the people of the United States to get stuff done for the people of the United States not to posture and play political games” Mr. Gibbs said at a briefing on Tuesday..........
Supporters of Mr. Obama immediately sought to portray Mr. McConnell’s remark as the latest example of a Republican Party more committed to obstructing the president’s agenda and defeating him in 2012 than in governing the country. Prior examples include Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina saying that if Republicans could stop Mr. Obama on health care, “It will be his Waterloo.”...........
Republicans, in turn noted that Mr. Obama has dedicated a substantial amount of his professional time in recent weeks to bashing the Republican Party, raising money for Democratic Congressional candidates and deploying all of his political resources to preserving the Democratic majorities in the House and the Senate. “The Republicans took Americans’ car and drove it into the ditch,” Mr. Obama often says.
Mr. Gibbs suggested that whatever the outcome in the elections he believed voters want officials in both parties to cooperate and he chided Mr. McConnell and Republicans for blocking legislation in the Senate the last two years........
“Our job should be to work together to move this country forward to strengthen our economy and to improve the lives of its citizens” Mr. Gibbs said, adding: “We have had over the past two years enough game-playing to satisfy ourselves for many political lifetimes. It shouldn’t take two extra months to get a small-business tax cut and a small-business lending package through the United States Senate.”.........
Don Stewart a spokesman for Mr. McConnell said that limiting Mr. Obama’s tenure in the White House was the top political goal but that Republicans had other policy priorities.
“Ending the Obama administration’s liberal agenda as soon as possible is Senator McConnell’s top political priority” Mr. Stewart said. “The American people are clamoring for a focus on jobs and righting our economy. Instead for two years the president and the majority in Congress have veered off to the far left and pursued their own liberal wish list agenda. Americans have been speaking out they want us to stand up for them and fight the wasteful Washington spending, stop the massive growth of the debt create a better environment for job growth and repeal and replace the health spending bill, and that’s Senator McConnell’s focus for the next two years.”...........
