.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.
In 2010, as the nation slowly recovered from the Great Recession, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell reflected on his party's top priorities.
It's worth noting that the conservative chair of the Senate Republican Conference did not appear to be referring to a plan to remove Biden from the White House prematurely. Rather, in context, Barrasso was suggesting that if Republicans can retake Congress, the GOP can shut Biden down for the second half of his first term.
It's a perspective rooted in the idea that Republicans care about governing and are prepared to work in good faith with Democrats in pursuit of meaningful policy goals. GOP officials don't want to take control of Congress in order to get things done; they intend to reclaim Congress in order to bring Biden's presidency to a halt -- for two full years.
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