That was former President Barack Obama, in 2009, snapping back at Republicans who were very deep in the political wilderness at the time.
Democrats controlled the White House, the Senate, and the House. Unlike 2025, the margins were comfortable. Obama knew he wouldn’t have to compromise a thing with the GOP for almost the next two years. “Elections have consequences” was the rhetoric equivalent of flipping the bird.
Most of the media was fully on board with one-party Democratic rule. The 2008 campaign and its coverage of Obama and the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) were an exercise in drooling for the former, underscored by Bernard Goldberg’s 2008 bestseller, A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama
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