text: Ernest and Peggy, you may be interested to know that a large group of key Republicans met at the Caucus House restaurant in Washington right around inauguration day and plotted to block Obama at every turn, and this meeting, and the resulting years of gridlock, are quite well documented for the curious citizen to discover. You have misapprehended what went down, in my opinion. 
  "Attending the dinner were House members Eric Cantor, Jeb Hensarling, Pete Hoekstra, Dan Lungren, Kevin McCarthy, Paul Ryan and Pete Sessions. From the Senate were Tom Coburn, Bob Corker, Jim DeMint, John Ensign and Jon Kyl. Others present were former House Speaker and future – and failed – presidential candidate Newt Gingrich and the Republican strategist Frank Luntz, who organised the dinner and sent out the invitations."
  
  http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/03/The-Conspiracy-to-Commit-Legislative-Constipation