Top GOPer Swears To Make Biden ‘Half-Term President’ In Echo Of McConnell’s Infamous Obama Vow

Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) speaks to members of the media at the U.S. Capitol on January 27, 2020. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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Senate Republican Conference chair John Barrasso (R-WY), the third highest ranking GOPer in the chamber, has taken Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) infamous obstruction vow to another level.

During a GOP think tank event last week, Barrasso noted that McConnell was deeply criticized for declaring in 2010 that making then-President Barack Obama a “one-term president” was the “single most important thing” Republicans wanted to achieve. Then the Wyoming Republican promised to go even further than his colleague ahead of the 2022 midterms.

“I want to make Joe Biden a one-half-term president,” Barrasso said. “And I want to do that by making sure they no longer have House, Senate, White House.”

The GOP leader asserted that Biden “will sign whatever” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) put on his desk and labeled the Democratic Party “the party of socialism.”

McConnell has made it clear that his plan to fully obstruct a Democratic president didn’t stop with Obama; last month the senator said that “one hundred percent of my focus is on stopping this new administration.” He also hinted at a Merrick Garland repeat and blocking a potential Biden appointee to the Supreme Court earlier this week.

Watch Barrasso below (his remark is at the 7:22 timestamp):

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  1. I just can’t anymore. These crap-stains are just out of control at this point with their performative nonsense. Are there any responsible people left in the GOP?

  2. They’re just trying to out-contemptible each other. The most rabidly partisan hockey fans look at these people and shake their heads sadly at the lack of perspective.

  3. What say ye to this Mr. Manchin?

  4. I’m surprised that he didn’t say that he expects Biden to leave office in August once all the fraudits show that Trump really won the election.

    Really, this is no surprise, Republicans have made it clear they have no interest in governing the nation, or in doing what they can for their priorities in collaboration with Democrats. They want to rule over us and force us to live how they see fit. It’s about as anti-democratic as it gets, so the idea that the president has any powers if they are a Democrat is of course the opposite of their authoritarian impulses. If they get power again, they will go full bore on this stuff, and it’s really not clear if we will have a free election after that without taking up arms against the government.

  5. Further evidence that the GOP has no interest in the Country or the American People. I mean, half the country plus voted for Biden and the Democrats, don’t OUR votes count for something John?

    Only you know better? Matt Gaetz knows better than Katie Porter? Gosar the insurrectionist, he knows better what Americans want? Has someone read him the polls lately?

    C’mon news media, lets get on it, ffs. Ask these assholes some questions. Like what about the millions who voted for Biden, the millions who voted for Ossoff and Kelly and so on. Ask them why so many people want affordable health insurance. Decent paying, not shitty minimum wage jobs. Ask, reporters, I dare you.

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