Obama Predicts ‘Popping of the Blister’ of GOP Opposition in Second Term

[Lone_Star_Dem]

I loved the headline. I pictured McConnell's and Bohner's heads exploding when they heard it.

For Americans weary of the acrimonious partisan gridlock in Washington, President Obama has a rosy message of hope and change: reelect me in November and the stalemate will end.

“My expectation is that there will be some popping of the blister after this election, because it will have been such a stark choice,” Obama told TIME Magazine in a newly published interview.

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“I do think that should I be fortunate enough to have another four years, the American people will have made a decision. And, hopefully, that will impact how Republicans think about these problems,” he told TIME.

“And I believe that in a second term where [Republican Senate Minority Leader] Mitch McConnell’s imperative of making me a one-term President is no longer relevant, they recognize what the American people are looking for is for us to get things done,” he said.

Republicans responded to the interview by accusing Obama of blowing hot air.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/08/obama-predicts-popping-of-the-blister-of-gop-opposition-in-second-term/

For those interested here's a link to the full interview in Time: http://swampland.time.com/2012/08/30/what-he-knows-now-obama-on-popularity-partisanship-and-getting-things-done-in-washington/

[ananda]

1. Well, that GOP blister is full of a lot of hot pus...

... a chancre on the butt cheek of America.

[Scuba]

2. Thanks for bringing it on home. The quintessential definition of the GOP.

[mattclearing]

3. He really doesn't get it, does he?

They will never work with him. Just give it up and smash them into electoral oblivion if you want to get something done. Jesus Christ.

[hifiguy]

4. Why do John Belushi and mashed potatoes come to mind

on reading this?

[JBoy]

7. Because Romney is Greg Marmalard?

[hifiguy]

9. That, too.

Hell's bells, Mittwit IS Gregg Marmalard. And Ryan makes an excellent Niedermeyer.

[Mariana]

10. No. Romney is Neidermeyer. nt.

[liberal_at_heart]

5. I heard a commentator say

that if they lose two elections in a row they will have to reevaluate how they are doing things, that they will have to be more than just the party of no. I think they are pretty stubborn. I think it may take another one to two election loses for them to actually start changing.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

6. They're going to have to squash their Teabaggers.

They're killing them when it comes to national elections.

Things are going to have to change in the Republican party, or they're going to go the way of the Dodo.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Obama is seeking a mandate. Let's see that he gets it. nt