At the (Republican Senate) retreat (January, 2009), McConnell reminded the Republican senators that there were still enough of them to block the Democratic agenda – as long as they all marched in lockstep…Politically, they had nothing to gain from me-too-ism.

McConnell recognized that Obama’s promises of bipartisanship gave his dwindling minority real leverage. Whenever Republicans decided not to cooperate, Obama would be the one breaking his promises…”We thought – correctly, I think – that the only way the American people would know a great debate was going on was if the measures were not bipartisan,” McConnell explained later in one of his periodic outbreaks of candor. “When you hang the ‘bipartisan’ tag on something, the perception is that the differences had been worked out.”

And McConnell in an interview that appeared in the National Journal on Oct. 23, 2010 — a mere two years after Obama was elected president:

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

Anyone else kind of get a sense, a hunch, maybe, that this strategy by the most conservative, obstructionist, all-we-have-to-do-is-say-No-and-we’re-in-with-America bunch in Congress will not be used much — not much, right — over the next two years?

Karma is a five letter word. After all.