"...John Boehner back in 2010, on his way to becoming speaker of the House, talking to Politico about his agenda on President Barack Obama's first-term agenda:"We're going to do everything-and I mean everything we can do-to kill it, slow it down, whatever we can." 
You can see how this goes: When it's your party doing the obstructing, a good Catholic boy like Boehner can practically turn the whole thing into one of the seven sacraments. At the same time...Mitch McConnell, now treated like the common-sense prince of Washington, said this to the National Journal: The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term President." 
Not find a way to work with Obama on getting people back to work, continue to pull the economy out of the sinkhole that Obama inherited from...Bush; or find ways to lighten the load for the middle class...or small businesses. No.The only vision from the party that now has the run of Washington was to say no...for 8 years."