So predictable.

Via Newsbusters:

MATTHEWS: “Let Me Start” tonight with this. The dirty little secret of American politics today is that this battle between President Obama and his enemies is not a contest of achievement.

No, it’s a battle between a president who wants to do great things — extend health care to the tens of millions of working people, many of them poor, ending two wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and preventing a third war with Iran — and almost totally negative force arrayed and barking against him, a campaign of verbal terror and negativity aimed at denying tens of millions decent health care, denying immigrants the chance to be come citizens, denying people of other sexual orientations and identities an equal chance to provide for themselves, obviously, also denying marriage equality.

It’s a strange, unbalanced battle between a man who wants to do great things and an enemy aimed at ensuring he does not. It’s a tale of a political party that once freed the slaves and battled the monopolies, built the transcontinental railroad and created scientific agriculture to the land grant colleges reduced now to playing jackal in the moonlight. Howard Fineman’s the editorial director of the Huffington Post Media Group and an MSNBC political analyst and Jonathan Capehart is the illustrious opinion writer for “The Washington Post” and an MSNBC contributor.

Howard, I painted this in strong terms and strong black and white, but I have to tell you, I don’t see a Republican agenda except to destroy Obama. Let’s go with this. The President’s enemies have tried to destroy, kill, defund, block or destroy everything in his program.