tl;dr The votes of the people sent a Black man to the White House and the Republicans lost their damn minds. They were intent on breaking the government before that (Gingrich making gov't shutdowns a real thing in the nineties) but hand to God, as soon as Obama was the Dem candidate, they were frenzied. Rabid. I was always amazed at all the "post-racism country now" talk because McConnell said in some top secret meeting even before the election that he would make Obama a one-term President, or failing that, would block him completely. -- ANYWAY.
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