Rachel Maddow: Don’t Kid Yourselves, There’s Not Going To Be Any Compromise

If MSNBC can figure out how to capitalize on a GOP majority the way Fox has done in the last few years with the Dem majority than Rachel Maddow may be running the show by 2012. She is not happy with the state of things. “So, what’s next?” she asked at the opening of her show last night, clapping her hands and shrugging her shoulders. What’s next, according to Maddow, is not the bipartisan cooperation both President Obama and Rep. John Boehner have been giving (a small amount of) lip service to since Tuesday.

The only agenda of congressional Republican since Barack Obama has been president has been to stop him, to obstruct anything and everything they can. They have voted against their own policies, they have voted against stuff they themselves have introduced. They have voted against their own ideas. They have done everything they can to obstruct everything they can. They know that anything good for the country in terms of policy converts to political capital for the President….that is what they did for the last two years, and it paid off for them big time last night.

Maddow says that having the majority in the House is not going to stop this trend, because with Obama in power and the Dem majority in the Senate they have no chance of passing anything so why take responsibility when the current obstructionist course is working so well for them. Why indeed. Watch below.

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