Senator Mitch McConnell

Senator Mitch McConnell

... Control of the presidency is therefore the Holy Grail for both parties. In October 2010, for instance, Republican Senator Mitch McConnell made clear that "the single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president." When he decided this was best accomplished through a campaign of merciless obstructiion, McConnell brought the government to a halt. Here we see how the emergence of an extremely powerful presidency encouraged destructive forms of political warfare.

 From To End A Presidency - The Power of Impeachment, p. 208, by Laurence Tribe and Joshua Matz

Dick Henthorn
7 Apr 2019