Why wont the GOP invest in infrastructure in this country?

As President Barack Obama was celebrating his inauguration at various balls, top Republican lawmakers and strategists were conjuring up ways to submarine his presidency at a private dinner in Washington.

The event -- which provides a telling revelation for how quickly the post-election climate soured.

the guest list that night (which was just over 15 people in total) included Republican Reps. Eric Cantor (Va.), Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), Paul Ryan (Wis.), Pete Sessions (Texas), Jeb Hensarling (Texas), Pete Hoekstra (Mich.) and Dan Lungren (Calif.), along with Republican Sens. Jim DeMint (S.C.), Jon Kyl (Ariz.), Tom Coburn (Okla.), John Ensign (Nev.) and Bob Corker (Tenn.). The non-lawmakers present included Newt Gingrich, several years removed from his presidential campaign, and Frank Luntz, the long-time Republican wordsmith. Notably absent were Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) -- who, Draper writes, had an acrimonious relationship with Luntz.

For several hours in the Caucus Room (a high-end D.C. establishment), they plotted out ways to not just win back political power, but to also put the brakes on Obama's legislative platform.

"If you act like you're the minority, you're going to stay in the minority," says McCarthy. "We've gotta challenge them on every single bill and challenge them on every single campaign."

Because they won't let up until he is out of office, but what have they built for themselves? They have lost how to be legislators and the Tea Party is eating the Republican Party from the inside out.

too much Benghazi on the Brain........and too concerned with obviously LOSING the next presidential election.

LOL!!! the DEMS like GM!! cars & roads...... and the GOP like crumbling roads & crappy cars!!

there's no money for infrastructure it's all going on weapons and welfare

they don't care about people or the US just profit

Why don't they want to fix the roads and bridges, they don't want to give the veterans their benefits.

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

Mitch McConnel, National Journal on Oct. 23, 2010 (nearly TWO ENTIRE YEARS after the election of Obama).

Any other questions?

The gop isn't interested in the world or continuation thereof

We did. Shovel ready failed.

because they dont want anything good to happen under a black man so they can sell the false narrative to their uneducated constituency that he's a failed president. Their racism is so DNA deep that they'd rather see america suffer, then let the president improve the country