“I
think we are called to pray, I think we are called to pray for our
country, our leaders and, yes, even Barack Obama. But I think we should
be very specific about how we pray, we should pray like Psalms 109:8
says. [May his days be few; may another take his place of leadership.]” -
Sen David Perdue (R) (the rest of the verse calls for the death of the
leader, making of his children barren and beggars, blotting out his
family line, etc.)
“The single most important
thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term
president.” - Sen. Mitch McConnell (R)
“We’ve gotta challenge them on every single bill and challenge them on every single campaign.” - Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R)
“For
the next two years, we can’t let you [Obama] succeed in anything.
That’s our ticket to coming back.” - Sen. Mitch McConnell (R)
“If he [Obama] was for it, we had to be against it.” - Sen. George Voinovich (R)
“We're
going to do everything — and I mean everything we can do — to kill it
[President Obama’s policy agenda], stop it, slow it down, whatever we
can.” - Rep. John Boehner (R)
"The strategy of being obstructionist can work or fail. So far it's working for us." - Sen. Trent Lott (R)
[T]he Senate confirmed fewer of [Obama's] district and circuit nominees than every president back to Jimmy Carter, and the lowest percentage of nominees - 58% - than any president in American history at this point in a President's first term. By comparison, Presidents George W. Bush, Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Reagan and Carter had 77%, 90%, 96%, 98%, and 97% of their nominees confirmed after two years, respectively.Senate Republicans' mass obstruction of Obama's judges stands in stark contrast to the treatment afforded to past presidents. Indeed, the Senate confirmed fewer judges during Obama's first two years in office than it did during the same period in the Carter Administration, even though the judiciary was 40 percent smaller while Carter was in office. - From a report by the Alliance on Justice
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