I don't know why this question keeps getting ask. The answer was obvious years ago. Here's PBS's Frontline introduction to a video on Obama's Presidency;
"On the night of Barack Obama’s inauguration, a group of top GOP luminaries quietly gathered in a Washington steakhouse to lick their wounds and ultimately create the outline of a plan for how to deal with the incoming administration.
The room was filled. It was a who’s who of ranking members who had at one point been committee chairmen, or in the majority, who now wondered out loud whether they were in the permanent minority," Frank Luntz, who organized the event, told FRONTLINE.
"Among them were Senate power brokers Jim DeMint, Jon Kyl and Tom Coburn, and conservative congressmen Eric Cantor, Kevin McCarthy and Paul Ryan.
After three hours of strategizing, they decided they needed to fight Obama on everything. The new president had no idea what the Republicans were planning."
They were planning to sabotage Obama's Presidency, hopefully make him a one term president by any means possible.That meeting was the initial move in a conspiracy to effect what was in reality a non-violent, secret coup d'état designed to deny the President of the United States the opportunity to exercise the powers granted to him by the Constitution and possibly fulfill his promises to the American people. To make government more responsive to them, more transparent, and transform society into a more egalitarian and fair enterprise. If allowed to follow through on his campaign rhetoric the Congressional Parasites and their Corporate masters who fed off the blind brainwashed masses would no longer have a passive, compliant public to bleed dry, to act as bearers and beaters in their hunt for more and more profit and wealth.
Even after it became clear that Obama had no intention of being the transformative president he had advertised, an image which seduced a great many Americans and many more worldwide into believing America was about to become once more a shining example of democracy to lead the world into a better tomorrow, (oh how hungrily we progressives swallowed that clichéd dream). Even when from the very beginning his corporatist economic vision was declared by his choices of advisors and Cabinet members the Republicans still had no intention of cooperating, negotiating, or compromising as had always been done to at least fool the American people into believing things were happening, actions were being taken on their behalf. Hell, old-time Pols like Tip O`Neill and his Republican "enemies" in Congress actually believed their own rhetoric and that government could act to make life better for the average citizen. That seems a long time ago. Now the venality of perennially well financed incumbents in the Republican party is exposed (but unrecognized by most) by their personal hatred for this president and their willingness to let the infrastructures of American life go to hell before they will reach out across the aisle. Meanwhile their financiers engorge themselves on the abundance of fruit produced by and denied to the American worker.
I've become a terrible cynic lately regarding the fundamental motivation underlying the impediments to action, the blockading of any progress this President might attempt, barricades the Republicans have constructed year after year. It's a dark suspicion of residual evil in the primal underbelly of American society and Republican politics, a suspicion raised by the fact that Obama just happens to be the first black President.
