GOP leader vows to make Joe Biden a 'half-term president'

[Nevilledog]

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.@MaddowBlog: With his "half-term president" rhetoric, Sen. Barrasso is giving away the game. The GOP doesn't want to govern; it's desperate to stop Democrats from governing.

GOP leader vows to make Joe Biden a 'half-term president'
With his "half-term president" rhetoric, Barrasso is giving away the game: the GOP doesn't want to govern; it's desperate to stop Democrats from governing.
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8:34 AM · Jun 16, 2021

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/gop-leader-vows-make-joe-biden-half-term-president-n1270994

In 2010, as the nation slowly recovered from the Great Recession, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) reflected on his party's top priorities.

"The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president," the Republican leader declared. McConnell added, "Our single biggest political goal is to give our nominee for president the maximum opportunity to be successful."

More than a decade later, another Senate Republican leader, Wyoming's John Barrasso, has articulated an eerily similar vision -- except now, limiting a Democratic president to one whole term is apparently too generous.

"Mitch McConnell's come under a lot of criticism for saying, at one point, he wanted to make sure that Barack Obama was a 'one-term president,'" Barrasso said last Thursday at an event hosted by the Ripon Society, a centrist Republican think tank, which posted the remarks Tuesday. "I want to make Joe Biden a one-half-term president."

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[Stuart G]

1. K and R....Great Find, Thank You for Posting This..

[gohuskies]

2. Republicans are the party of traitors

Incredible how openly arrogant they have become. they are truly the party of despotism. Steal elections by any means and install single party rule in perpetuity is their ultimate goal. they have to be stopped cold.

[Blue Owl]

3. LOL I look forward to seeing how that will all work out for Sen. Bare-asshole

[Nevilledog]

4. Great....now I have an image of Barrasso walking around in assless chaps

Bad Owl

[Crunchy Frog]

5. He's in Wyoming. They'll eat it up with a spoon.

There is absolutely no downside for him in talking like that.

[BradAllison]

6. Bu....bu....b...bipartisanship????

Let's not be fucking fools, people.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

7. So we get President Harris for 2.5 terms?