Midknight Review Fact Check's this claim : GOP opposition to Obama existed from “Day #1” and is the reason why so much did not get done. - judged "false" and here is why.

<<<<< If Barack Obama had truly been congenial,  inclusive and non-combative,  he could have destroyed conservatism for decades into the future.  Thank gawd,  he is a combative community organizer rather than a skilled politician.  And to think there are those who do not believe in a resurrection from the dead.  Hail to the Conservative Party!!

From the Washington Post’s dutiful presentation,  we have  the Axelrod accusation,  one that was shared by Obama pundits all day, Sunday,  September the 2^nd.  But there is a question attached to the Post's record:  

Why has President Obama fallen so far short of what he so passionately described as a candidate four years ago? To the partisans on both sides, the answers are simple — and fundamentally at odds.

The president’s advisers contend that Republicans chose the course of obstruction and intransigence from the day Obama was sworn in.

“We met an implacable opponent in the Republican leadership,” said David Axelrod, senior strategist for Obama’s reelection campaign and former White House senior adviser. “They made a decision, and they’ve been very open about it, that from Day One they weren’t going to cooperate on any major issue.”  (Source:  Washington Post) 

The Obama campaign makes the accusation of “opposition from day one” without ever offering any proof of said quote.  As it turns out,  the McConnell statement was not made until October, 10, 2010,  nearly two years into the Obama presidency.  At the time,  Obama had not spent a single moment in one on one meetings with either McConnell or John Boehner,  Senate and House minority leaders,  respectively. 

As to the GOP’s ability to obstruction and non-cooperation,  Scott Brown,  a Republican,  was sworn into office on February 3,  2010.  For the first year of Obama’s term,  the GOP literally did not count when it came to opposition.  Congressional Democrats could have passed Cap and Trade, a so-called “comprehensive immigration law,”  and “fixed” both Medicare and Social Security.   Instead,  they gave away 1.2 trillion dollars to Democrat congressional districts,  teacher and trade unions in a stimulus bill (832 billion dollars)  and an omnibus bill ($400 billion) --  passing both bills before the end of the Spring, 2009,  and wasted the rest of the year trying to pass a health care bill that the people did not want and the GOP could not prevent.  The 2010 midterm disaster was the result. 

Conclusion:  the Democrats have only themselves to blame.  To imagine that with the election of one man,  Scott Brown,  the Dems were “shut down” for the course of the ensuing year (2010) is a little bizarre.  To think that they could not find one liberal minded Republican to vote for their agenda at some point,  is indicative of the “screw you,  do it our way or hit the road” brand of congressional “negotiations”  replete within the Obama Administration.