Within weeks of Obama winning the election, the GOP had already declared that their goal was to ensure he was a one-term president. And it wasn’t some no-name backbencher who made this announcement, it was the Minority Leader of the damned Senate. The same man who later said that the major legislative accomplishment of Obama’s presidency would be his “Waterloo.” When he actually sought their proposals for what became the Stimulus Bill and then rejected their calls for even more tax cuts, they made a huge public furor over his “arrogance” in saying “I won.”

So when I hear those same people now tell me I need to hold my criticisms of the man and “Give him a chance,” what I really hear is “You need to just forget the past 8 years and act as we’re anything but petulant assholes.” And no, I’m not prepared to do that. Especially not when those people saying it are now starting to get a bit worried by what they’re seeing him do even before he takes office.