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President Obama literally said the Republicans had to sit in the back seat: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4748375/user-clip-obama-tells-republicans-you-gotta-b

• Sabinus 2y ago
  "If you want, you can ride with us, but you gotta sit in the back seat." As in, "we have a majority so we drive the political clown-car. "
• throw0101d 2y ago
  Entire transcript of the clip: > We feel a tap on our shoulder and we look back, and who is it? It's the Republicans. And they say "Huh, excuse me, we'd like the keys back." And we have to tell them "I'm sorry, you can't have the keys back if you don't know how to drive". If you want you can ride with us but you have to ride in the back seat. Further context: Oct. 22, 2010, in Las Vegas on behalf of Sen. Harry Reid's re-election campaign. As a sibling comment notes: the Democrats had the majority at the time and were in charge of setting the agenda ("had the keys"). Further, Obama was willing to give the GOP a (figurative) ride if they wanted and were heading in the same direction.