"It’s the most depressingly small minded, venal unpatriotic thing I’ve ever seen in my life"

“We spend a lot of time talking about other countries, particularly the Middle East and places where there’s a lot of religious excessive demand,” Mr. Kerry said. “But here in our own country, we have our own fundamentalists and we have our own excesses of demand today, and expectation with respect to towing the line.”…

“Why are we stuck? Why is this the way it is? Why does Olympia Snowe leave? Why are we gridlocked?” he asked rhetorically. “Well, I’ll tell you in very simple terms; certain people in the leadership of the United States Congress have made a decision that their primary objective is not fixing the economy, it is defeating this president. And they have decided to do everything possible to gridlock everything in order that we all look bad and then people throw everybody out and they’ll come into power.”

Mr. Kerry finished by making his opinion of this “obstructionist” approach painstakingly clear.

“It’s the most depressingly small minded, venal unpatriotic thing I’ve ever seen in my life,” he said.