The issue really took root in 2010, *after* the Republicans rolled the House.

And the comments were made with the express intent of generating a moderating influence on the Obama administration relative to conservative viewpoints. Which the Community Organizer in Chief actually did not moderate. In contrast, both Shrub and Willie moderated in the happenstance of losing a branch, or not having one completely on his side. Clinton did so, and immediately vaulted his administration into probably one of the most successful ones of my lifetime, tbh.

So, in terms of 'gridlock' big, it takes two to do that, mind you. Why not the rancor to the Obama administration for no attempt at moderation? Or attempts at conciliation? Funny thing, I seemingly remember Obama pulling an abrupt about face on the "Grand Deal" with Boehner after the long agenda of secret meetings.

Memories seem very one sided in the power to indict around here.

To be honest, absolutely McConnell did a stalwart job of 'no more of everything that the opposition wanted'. Funny thing is, what the Community Organizer in Chief wanted and what conservatives and conservative leaners (i.e. Tea Partiers) supported were pretty much a non-overlapping Venn diagram.

Yet somehow *only* McConnell gets tagged with the 'obstruction' tag. Amazing that.

Honestly speaking, we have faced the exact issue in the last 1.5 years with the House being firmly under a very left leaning House. Pretty much nothing to come out of it excepting the countless inquiries and an impeachment vote. But having nothing happen given the very large divide between Administration wants and the goals of the (very left leaning) House arent really a surprise to me; and they arent to you either based upon a lack of criticism of the last 1.5 years of non-movement.

But lordy, reverse polarity, replace Orange Hair with Community Organizer, and replace the legislative branch with two Republican branches and we have a major miscarriage of protocol. Do you see why one might be somewhat askance at that?