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Congress - Mitch McConnell

[9/25/12] When did McConnell say he wanted to make Obama a 'one-term president'?

MCCONNELL: After 1994, the public had the impression we Republicans overpromised and underdelivered. We suffered from some degree of hubris and acted as if the president was irrelevant and we would roll over him. By the summer of 1995, he was already on the way to being reelected, and we were hanging on for our lives.
NJ: What does this mean now?
MCCONNELL: We need to be honest with the public. This election is about them, not us.

And we need to treat this election as the first step in retaking the government. We need to say to everyone on (mid-term) Election Day, “Those of you who helped make this a good day, you need to go out and help us finish the job.”

The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.

If President Obama does a Clintonian backflip, if he’s willing to meet us halfway on some of the biggest issues, it’s not inappropriate for us to do business with him.

It is possible the president’s advisers will tell him he has to do something to get right with the public on his levels of spending and [on] lowering the national debt. If he were to heed that advice, he would, I imagine, find more support among our conference than he would among some in the Senate in his own party.